In the week that Blair goes before the Chilcot inquiry, this revelation is significant.

Kelly death facts secret for 70 years

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/85960
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245599/David-Kelly-post-mortem-kept-secret-70-years-doctors-accuse-Lord-Hutton-concealing-vital-information.html
http://dr-david-kelly.blogspot.com/

As Chomsky advises, don’t listen to what they say, just watch what they do.

Frankly, I’m not in the least surprised by this decision.

The one consolation is that the truth tends to leak out.

Norman Baker’s reaction at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1245626/NORMAN-BAKER-Hutton-farcical-feeble-amateurish–MUST-told-truth-week.html

Baker has done enough research to establish that Hutton’s verdict of suicide needs to be reviewed, to say the very least. Witnesses so far unheard deserve their chance to testify. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see the need to reopen the inquiry on this.

In conversations with friends at the time of David Kelly’s tragic death in July 2003, I speculated it could be attributed to one of those “authorised but deniable” actions by the state intended to “encourage the others”.

Let’s recap a little. Speaking at the G8 summit in Evian in June, Blair had said he stood ’100%’ by the evidence shown to the public about Iraq’s alleged weapons programmes.

“‘Frankly, the idea that we doctored intelligence reports in order to invent some notion about a 45-minute capability for delivering weapons of mass destruction is completely and totally false,’ he said.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2955036.stm

Any suggestion that the claims made in that dossier on Iraq’s WMD published on 24 September 2002 were less than robust would imply that Blair had blatantly lied to the other leaders attending the G8 summit.

As the Butler inquiry was later to find, the claims relating to the use of WMD within 45 minutes of a command from Saddam Hussein were based on one unproven source. Dr Brian Jones, head of the branch in the Defence Intelligence Service routinely tasked with assessing all intelligence relating to WMD, had disowned the claims made in the dossier.

Alastair Campbell has recently said that he stands by every word in the dossier. But why was the “45-minutes” claim made no less than FOUR times in the dossier if there was no intention to “sex it up”?

The dossier on Iraq’s WMD can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/uk_dossier_on_iraq/pdf/iraqdossier.pdf

The only scope for surprise IMO is that Blair evidently believed that he stood a real chance of becoming the first EU President. Anyone following the European press and mainland European journalists could easily appreciate that Blair’s credibility had sunk to approximately zero because of the Iraq war.