Not to drag this off topic, but it is also rather odd that at almost the same time, the Hutton report essentially cleared the Blair administration of any wrongdoing while laying almost all the blame on the BBC. This in spite of the fact that Blair had stated that Iraq could launch a strike within 45 minutes using WMD among other completely false statements. Sounds like the whitewash is not confined to the US. Maybe Blair can take justice Scalia foxhunting and ask for some personal subsidies from the US taxpayers..it seems to have worked for Cheney.
The Hutton Inquiry specifically did not go into the truth or falsity of the statements made about Iraq's WMD, but rather investigated whether Tony Blair has modifed a dossier outlining them and knew that the information contained was false.