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Thread #61364 Message #1107314
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Feb-04 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: David Kelly (UK govt. WMD thing)
Subject: RE: BS: David Kelly (UK govt. WMD thing)
That link to Hoon hooning on didn't work. If he was arguing that a lie by omission is somehow not a real lie, that's rubbish. The thing that makes a lie a lie is the intention to deceive, and that was pretty clearly present.
The suggestion that MPs base their judgement just on what they hear in the House of Commons, rather than also on what they read in the press, and that therefore lies in the media do not really matter, is not in my view sustainable.
It's pretty clear that the Government did not see it that way when they wanted launched their own weapon of mass destruction against the BBC for Gilligan's report (in which he over-egged the pudding by saying "probably" instead of "possibly", but essentially presented a true picture).