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	Why War? Keywords: Alastair Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Prime Minister and his director of strategy and communications, Alastair Campbell, are expected to decline invitations to appear.
		Alastair Campbell (born May 25, 1957) was the Director of Communications and Strategy for 10 Downing Street.
		Campbell's control of the Lobby System under which a select group of accredited journalists were given privileged access to the Prime Minister's spokesman (and the journalistic kudos that this access could bring) meant that he wielded a good deal of power over the media.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Alastair_Campbell (952 words)

	Alastair Campbell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Campbell was the son of a vet who was of Scottish origin, but was working in Keighley at the time of his son's birth.
		Campbell intervened personally to complain whenever media outlets ran stories he felt were unhelpful to the campaign, and was not afraid to attack journalists personally when they displeased him.
		Campbell's control of the traditional under which a select group of accredited journalists were given privileged access to the Prime Minister's spokesman (and the journalistic kudos that this access could bring) meant that he wielded a good deal of power over the media, as previous Press Secretaries had found.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alastair_Campbell (1436 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: Alastair Campbell
		Mr Campbell was appointed as Tony Blair's official spokesman in 1994.
		Campbell is said to have come out of the experience less brash, more disciplined and even more driven in his career.
		Alastair Campbell has given notice that he is to leave his post
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3028250.stm (447 words)

	C4 News - UK - Iraq Dossier - Campbell interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alastair Campbell: The BBC in their letter to me, and it is fascinating, they have post facto justification of a story by citing sources in newspapers which wrote stories subsequent to their, to the story they had done.
		Alastair Campbell: Well, part of the problem I alluded to in my evidence to the select committee is that a lot of journalists see their mission to discredit politicians in the political process.
		Alastair Campbell: It was another country's intelligence, and the British intelligence put what they put in that dossier on the basis of British intelligence.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/06/week_4/27_campbell.html (2883 words)

	AM - Alastair Campbell gives evidence to Kelly inquiry
		Mr Campbell told the inquiry he wasn't involved in the actual naming of Dr Kelly, but he agreed he was in favour of putting his name in the public arena.
		ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (actor): The impression I got, I didn't know Dr Kelly, but the impression I got in the way that he was being described was that he was a very strong resolute character, clearly of deep conviction and who'd been in many difficult, stressful situations.
		MICHAEL DODD: Alastair Campbell admitted that, with hindsight, the events leading to David Kelly's death could have been handled differently but he told the inquiry that given Dr Kelly's background he didn't think it crossed anyone's mind that events might take the turn they did, and he was very sad about the outcome.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2003/s928220.htm (662 words)

	A History of Clan Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alastair Campbell of Airds, Her Majesty’s Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon, is gifted as a writer and eminently qualified to put pen to paper regarding the Campbell’s tribal history which has often been misunderstood, if not wrongly misinterpreted.
		Campbell was employed by the Duke of Argyll to be Chief Executive of the Clan (yes, these are modern times!) and was in charge of the Campbell archives for over a dozen years.
		Alastair Campbell is just as blunt as he is humorous when it comes to what septs should not be in Clan Campbell.
	www.electricscotland.com /familytree/frank/campbell.htm (867 words)

	Alastair Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Alastair was Downing Street press secretary, for example, Fiona and he accompanied the Blairs in their visit to Bill and Hilary Clinton at the White House.
		Campbell, unlike Blair, had moments of significant doubt about the rightness or wisdom of joining the US in The War in Iraq.
		Alastair Campbell is to resign as the Government's director of communications and strategy, 10 Downing Street said this afternoon.
	clublet.com /c/c/why?AlastairCampbell (876 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| Who will rid us of the over-mighty Campbell?
		For the truth is that Campbell, contrary to the myth that he is a public relations genius, has, since 1997, been a disaster for the image of Tony Blair.
		- eventually led even Mr Campbell to recognise that he was too often becoming the story rather than simply relaying it, and a decision was taken in 2000 that he should stick to a behind-the-scenes role, with the grandiloquent title of "Director of Communications and Strategy".
		Campbell was the mastermind behind that process, and - as his track record might have led one to expect - it was duly overspun.
	telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/21/do2101.xml (1243 words)

	Alastair Campbell survives Hutton grilling
		Alastair Campbell today told the Hutton inquiry that the controversial dossier claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes was already in the intelligence document when it first came to him.
		Mr Campbell is one of the central witnesses in the inquiry, which was ordered following the apparent suicide of David Kelly, the government weapons inspector who was revealed as the source of a BBC Radio 4 story that the government had transformed the intelligence dossier to make it "sexier" to the public.
		Mr Campbell had been challenged by James Dingemans QC about his involvement with the press after the inquiry was shown an email from the prime minister's chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, asking him to predict what the London Evening Standard headline would be on the day the dossier was published.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/966613/posts (1183 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - ALASTAIR CAMPBELL QUITS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Campbell, 46, was expected to wait until the end of Lord Hutton's Inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly before revealing his widely-expected plans to resign.
		Blair said: "The Alastair Campbell I know is an immensely able, fearless, loyal servant of the cause he believes in, who was dedicated not only to that cause but to his country.
		Campbell played a leading role in the drafting of the dodgy dossier that sent Britain to war against Iraq and has embroiled the PM in the deepest crisis of his Premiership.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/content_objectid=13347840_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-ALASTAIR-CAMPBELL-QUITS-name_page.html (628 words)

	Alastair Campbell - SourceWatch
		Alastair Campbell (May 1957 –) was appointed as the communications director for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but resigned on August 29, 2003 due to his role in selling the 2003 war against Iraq.
		The enquiry effectively cleared Campbell and led to the resignation of the chairman of the BBC's board of govenors and it's Director General, as well as of the journalist who made the original report.
		Tony Blair has appointed Alastair Campbell to a new official post in the Labour Party with a brief to embark on a fresh round of personal attacks on the Tory leader, Michael Howard.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Alastair_Campbell (678 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Alastair Campbell
		Mr Campbell stressed that John Scarlett, the chairman of the joint intelligence committee, had "ownership" of the document and that his own contribution was purely "presentational".
		Mr Campbell's September 22 appearance at the inquiry - his second - was dominated by the release of extracts from his diary.
		Mr Campbell said that risked being unfair to Mr Hoon, and attempted to distance himself from earlier evidence from the prime minister's official spokesman, Godric Smith, that he had considered leaking Dr Kelly's name to a newspaper.
	www.guardian.co.uk /hutton/keyplayers/story/0,13842,1029115,00.html (1069 words)

	Alastair Campbell’s departure has done its job. Who’s talking about Iraq now? - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Campbell would have known at the beginning of last week, when he told close friends his intentions, that the reaction to his departure would not be calm nor collected.
		Campbell claims the timing of his resignation announcement – Friday, just after lunch – ensured his news would offer no conflict to anything coming out of Court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice where Hutton was sitting.
		Campbell is likely to have at least distanced himself from the main party machine by the time of the gathering in Bournemouth.
	www.sundayherald.com /36387 (1493 words)

	The David Kelly affair, Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell's war
		Liddle’s further claim that ‘Alastair Campbell chaired meetings of the joint intelligence committee’ is doubly misleading in that he was only criticised by the foreign affairs committee for chairing a single meeting - which was not a meeting of joint intelligence committee itself.
		If Campbell was indeed engaging in a diversionary strategy, it was one calculated not so much to protect his own reputation as to protect the entire government (and even, to the extent to which they had allowed themselves to become a tool of government, the intelligence services themselves).
		It allowed Alastair Campbell to exploit its proceedings (and the absolute privilege which select committees confer upon their witnesses) in order to launch a fierce attack on the BBC and Andrew Gilligan whom he accused of ‘lying’.
	www.richardwebster.net /deathofascientist.html (14748 words)

	Alastair Campbell
		Alastair Campbell is best known for his years as communications director for Prime Minister Tony Blair, for whom he worked from 1994 to 2003.
		Prior to Number 10, Alastair had enjoyed a long and successful career as a journalist, serving as political editor of the Daily Mirror.
		Never one to rest on his laurels, this year Alastair took up the challenge of the 2004 London Triathlon - a gruelling test of endurance for any athlete.
	www.lrf.org.uk /en/1/campbell.html (157 words)

	Alastair Campbell - The Times 26 June 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In his evidence over an alleged BBC "lie" put to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, Alastair Campbell admitted that the JIC (Joint Intelligent Committee) "dodgy dossier", namely a "sexed up" one, stating that Iraq was able to deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMD) within 45 minutes was a mistake.
		Campbell claims that the BBC rationale was that the Prime Minister led the country into war on a false basis, which is at variance with his "mistake" as admitted.
		Campbell appears to overlook the fact that it is Parliament that authorises the PM to place the country on a war footing if the need arises.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/square/fs59/serbtory72.htm (484 words)

	Media Medium: Alastair Campbell
		Gemini is the classic communication sign, and Campbell is a natural for the media circus with all the sign's gifts - he is intelligent, fast-thinking, street-wise and capable of the shrewd question which hits at the heart of any matter.
		Campbell's Sun is at the same degree, making him Blair's very own rapid reaction force.
		All bodes well for Campbell now but restless Geminis often think that the grass looks greener elsewhere, and he is rumoured to be moving on to a new job as Director of Communications for New Labour.
	www.companyguide.co.uk /gm210501.htm (626 words)

	CNN.com - Campbell: The power behind Blair - Aug. 29, 2003
		Alastair Campbell, who announced Friday that he was resigning as Prime Minister Tony Blair's director of communications, has often been called the second most powerful man in Britain.
		In recent months, Campbell, 46, has found himself at the center of a storm over allegations that the UK government "sexed up" a September 2002 dossier to strengthen the case for war against Iraq.
		Campbell began his association with Blair in 1994, working as official spokesman when the prime minister was still the leader of the opposition.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/29/campbell.profile (615 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A History of Clan Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Commissioned by the Clan Campbell Education Association in Louisiana, it is a full history in three volumes with a foreward by the Duke of Argyll.
		Alastair Campbell of Airds was employed by the Duke of Argyll as archivist at Inverary Castle and was the same year appointed Her Majesty's Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms, a member of the Court of Lord Lyon.
		Alastair Campbell of Airds has made the history of the Campbell Clan a thoroughly readable mixture of fact and conjecture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1902930177?v=glance (640 words)

	Observer \| Alastair Campbell joins Sir Clive's Lions
		Despite having announced a backroom staff totalling 26, the maverick head coach has enlisted Campbell, a sports-obsessed, no-nonsense former newspaper reporter who is as feared as he is respected, to advise on media relations and to help deal with any problems that might occur.
		Woodward recently approached Campbell in an attempt to help the tour to run smoothly, which was not the case when the Lions, then coached by Graham Henry, went to Australia in 2001.
		Campbell, 47, a keen Burnley fan and London Marathon runner who became so powerful under Tony Blair that he was dubbed 'the real Deputy Prime Minister', is not expected to stay for all five weeks of the tour, which includes three Tests and eight matches against provincial teams.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5073384-102283,00.html (482 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Campbell quits
		Alastair Campbell has announced he is to leave his Downing Street job in a shock move mid-way through the Hutton inquiry.
		That makes it more likely that Mr Campbell may be exonerated in his war with the BBC over the controversial story by the BBC's Andrew Gilligan - as he was by the foreign affairs select committee, albeit on a split vote with a Labour majority.
		Although Mr Campbell told Lord Hutton he kept a diary as an aide-memoire and it was "not intended for publication", most Westminster insiders predict it will be his pension, commanding a publishing deal of around £1m.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,1031837,00.html (737 words)

	CNN.com - Blair's press boss Campbell quits - Aug. 29, 2003
		Campbell was outspoken in his condemnation of the BBC.
		In his resignation statement, Campbell said his family had paid a price for his role and said his partner, Fiona Millar, who works for Blair's wife Cherie, would be leaving Number 10 at the same time.
		Campbell said he "did not think it appropriate to announce (his resignation) on a day when Lord Hutton was sitting." The Hutton inquiry normally does not convene on Fridays.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/29/campbell.resigns (556 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Hutton inquiry - Secret diary of Alastair Campbell, 46¼ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		ALASTAIR Campbell gave an unexpected and tantalising glimpse yesterday into the detailed diaries he has kept since becoming Tony Blair’s right-hand man.
		The first entry Mr Campbell read was from 3 September, 2002 - the date Mr Blair announced during a press conference in his Sedgefield constituency that the government would publish a dossier of evidence against Saddam Hussein.
		The book helped fuel speculation that Mr Campbell was so close to the apex of government that ministers took for granted that his words carried the full authority of the Prime Minister.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=911&id=914022003 (1486 words)

	Alastair Campbell biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He attended school in Leicester and Cambridge University where he studied modern languages (French and German) and claimed that he wrote essays based solely on criticism and did not always read the works themselves (a kind of proto-spin doctoring).
		Campbell's control of the traditional Lobby System under which a select group of accredited journalists were given privileged access to the Prime Minister's spokesman (and the journalistic kudos that this access could bring) meant that he wielded a good deal of power over the media, as previous Press Secretaries had found.
		Sir Clive Woodward wants Campbell to manage relations with the press for the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005.
	alistair-campbell.biography.ms (1223 words)

	Printer version - Boilermaker Bill mourns Alastair Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alastair Campbell's departure from Number 10 was as inevitable as it was becoming increasingly necessary.
		Campbell's final stroke of spin is to get it across that this is not a premature response to Lord Hutton's findings, but rather a deferral of his own wishes since the English summer of 2001.
		Campbell did it with "The people's princess", which did much to restore Diana in the royal pantheon, and bring the House of Windsor kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.
	www.crikey.com.au /media/2003/08/31-0001.print.html (1458 words)

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