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The Corbett Report Podcast

Episode 447 - Further Down the David Kelly Rabbit Hole

The Corbett Report Podcast

The Corbett Report

Politics, News

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Dr. David Kelly did not commit suicide on Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire 20 years ago. He was murdered. We all know that by now, or at least we should know that by now. But the real question is: why was he murdered. Was it really about sexed-up dossiers and 45 minute claims? Or were there even darker secrets to be concealed? As old hands of The Corbett Report will know by now, the rabbit hole goes deep, and today we go even further into the rabbit hole of David Kelly's death.

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You're listening to the Corbett Report.

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Corbett report.

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Corbett.com. Welcome back to ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to another edition of the Corbett Report.

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I'm your host James Corbett of Corbettreport.com coming to you as always from the sunny

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climbs of Western Japan here on this 30th day of June

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2023 with episode 447 of the Corbett Report podcast further down the

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David Kelly Rabbit Hole.

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Yes, it is June of 2003 on the doorstep of July

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2023, which I'm sure my listeners will know by now

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marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Dr. David Kelly.

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And if you were around at the time and following the dinosaur media,

0:51.0

as I was at that time, you will probably remember this story, at the very least, from the coverage that it did certainly receive at the time. It was a large story about famed UN Weapons Inspector,

1:04.0

Dr David Kelly, who was discovered dead on Harrowdown Hill

1:08.0

near his home in Oxfordshire in England on July 17th of 2003 and a public inquiry was announced into that death

1:18.5

the very next day by the UK government and that inquiry eventually returned the verdict that Dr Kelly had

1:24.5

indeed taken his own life committing suicide by swallowing 29 co-proximal

1:29.8

tablets and slashing his ulinary artery with a pruning knife that he had had since youth.

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And the official verdict was that this was likely done due to the stress that Dr. Kelly was under after having been outed as a source for a

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BBC report on the Sext Up Dossier that had been released in the buildup to the Iraq war that made the UK government's

1:56.0

case for that Iraq war.

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Now as I say you probably are familiar with various aspects of this story if you were around at the time and following the news because it did receive some attention and if you did then well here's the 60-70-second summary of what most people at least in Dinosaur Media World would know about

2:15.8

those events. The death of Dr. David Kelly continues to make headlines. It's now being called a textbook case of suicide

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