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Lord Hutton finally releases his Inquiry report into the circumstances surrounding Dr David Kelly's death. Blair, Campbell, Hoon and everybody else in government circles are all completely exonerated. The BBC takes the full brunt of the criticism, causing Chairman Gavin Davies, reporter Andrew Gilligan and, most controversially, Director General Greg Dyke to resign in the run-up to the renewal of the BBC Charter. It is almost universally regarded as a whitewash. Hutton seems to have disregarded the evidence and tipped the scales of justice in favour of the government - another establishment lapdog after all.

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