In the 24 hours after the publication of the Hutton report, the contrast between the bosses of the two organisations whose battle led to David Kelly's death could not have been sharper. Tony Blair was pugnacious and cheerful. Gavyn Davies, the BBC'S chairman, and Greg Dyke, its director-general, resigned. Their departure is the most dramatic consequence so far of the corporation's row with the government, but it is unlikely to be the last. On May 22nd 2003, Andrew Gilligan, a BBC defence correspondent, met Dr Kelly in the Charing Cross Hotel. On the basis of this meeting, Mr Gilligan reported that an unnamed intelligence source said that the government probably knew the 45-minute claim to be false, and had used it against the wishes of the intelligence services. In an article in the Mail on Sunday he said that, when asked at whose behest the dossier was "sexed up", his source responded with one word: "Campbell".
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