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	Andrew Gilligan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November 1968, Teddington, Middlesex, England) is a journalist best known for his report, while defence and diplomatic correspondent for BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme, about the British Government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
		Gilligan and three other journalists had visited the airport that morning and established that the Americans were not in control of the airport terminal or approach road.
		Gilligan's reporting was criticised both by the Iraqi authorities, who twice threatened to expel him for disobeying rules not to travel without a minder, and by the British Government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Gilligan (1612 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Andrew Gilligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gilligan first came to prominence during the April 2003 Iraq war, when he was stationed in Baghdad.
		However in one early report Gilligan clumsily rephrased the central allegation in his own words, saying that he had been told by "one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up the September dossier that the Government probably knew that the 45 minute figure was wrong even before it decided to put it in".
		Gilligan (by this time under grave pressure from Downing Street) made a serious mistake, privately bringing Susan Watts' unattributed Newsnight interview to the attention of sympathetic members of the FAC, suggesting (correctly as it turned out) that Kelly had been her source too.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Andrew_Gilligan (1115 words)

	Politics \| Andrew Gilligan
		Andrew Gilligan sparked the cataclysmic row between the government and the BBC when he reported allegations that Downing Street had ordered an intelligence dossier on Iraq weapons of mass destruction to be "sexed up".
		Gilligan, the defence correspondent for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said a "senior official in charge of compiling the dossier" had alleged the government had inserted the claim that weapons of mass destruction could be launched within 45 minutes even though it had come from just one unreliable source.
		Gilligan followed up his Today programme reports with a column in the Mail on Sunday in which he gave details of his meeting with the anonymous source and, crucially, claimed the source had named Alastair Campbell as the government official responsible for the insertion of the 45-minute claim.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4737292-111577,00.html (1975 words)

	Britain's whistleblower scandal: Slanders against BBC's Andrew Gilligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gilligan is the BBC Today programme journalist whose radio broadcast at the end of May cited a source stating that the Labour government had “sexed up” its September intelligence dossier to exaggerate the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and reinforce the case for war.
		Gilligan had denied this allegation, described the meeting as a “kangaroo court” and said the committee was “quite determined to lynch me.” Both sides had insisted that the transcript of the closed session be published.
		Gilligan was paid back not with restraint on the part of the government and its supporters, however, but a stepping up of their slander campaign to question his sanity.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jul2003/gill-j30.shtml (1480 words)

	ipedia.com: Andrew Gilligan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November, 1968, Teddington, Middlesex, England) is a journalist best known for his report, while Defence and Diplomatic correspondent for BBC radio's The Today Programme, about the British Government's dossier on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
		In the first report Gilligan (who was not using a script) claimed to have been told by "one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up the September dossier" that the Government "probably knew that the 45 minute figure was wrong even before it decided to put it in".
		Gilligan's source was one of Britain's foremost biological weapons experts, David Kelly.
	www.ipedia.com /andrew_gilligan.html (1128 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Gilligan's day of humiliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ANDREW Gilligan, the BBC journalist, yesterday admitted to a catalogue of blunders in his reports on the government’s Iraq dossier - finally delivering the confession which Downing Street has demanded for the past three months.
		However, Mr Gilligan was spared intensive questioning by the lawyer representing the family of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who killed himself after being identified as the source behind the BBC story.
		Mr Gilligan, the main target of No10’s campaign against the BBC, was summoned back to the inquiry to explain holes in his original evidence after his version of events was contradicted by several other witnesses.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1032752003 (892 words)

	The Hutton Report
		On 29th May 2003, Andrew Gilligan, a BBC defence reporter alleged on the BBC Today programme that Downing Street ordered the transformation of a dossier on Iraqi weapons in the week before it was published.
		In Gilligan's first report on 29th May, he told listeners to Radio 4's Today programme that he had been speaking to "a British official" who was "involved in the preparation" of the dossier on Iraq's weaponry, published by the government in September last year.
		Gilligan was questioned on 17th July in private by the foreign affairs select committee and they said he appeared to backtrack on his claims.
	theinternetforum.co.uk /bbc/gilligan1.html (1591 words)

	Oral evidence
		Andrew Gilligan says, "No. My feeling is that it fleshes out what we already know to some extent and that there is some new interesting sort of spicy angles but it does not contain...
		Mr Gilligan: I have seen Susan Watts' original report on Newsnight in which she quoted a source seemed to be involved with the process of putting the dossier together.
		Mr Gilligan: Assertions that something is untrue are no substitute for evidence that it is untrue, and the Committee has been denied the evidence which it might need to establish that it is untrue, namely the presence of the Chairman of the JIC and access to the draft of the dossier.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmfaff/uc1025-ii/uc102502.htm (14918 words)

	Encyclopedia: Andrew Gilligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andrew Gilligan, BBC journalist involved in the Dr David Kelly affair and Hutton Inquiry.
		It seeks to hold reporters, with all the difficulties they face, to a standard that it does not appear to demand of, for instance, Government dossiers." The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, appointed by the British government to investigate the death of a government weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly.
		Gavyn Davies Gavyn Davies (born 27 November 1950) was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004, a former Goldman Sachs banker and a former economic advisor to the British Government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Andrew-Gilligan (3144 words)

	David Steven etcetera - miscellaneous & irregular
		Gilligan's blog seems to have got a lot of attention - thanks a lot for dropping by - and thanks to all those who linked to it.
		Gilligan contributed to the BBC group blog, making 60-odd posts from Baghdad, and clocking up over 6000 words of impressions of the war.
		Gilligan must have had considerable exposure to the Iraqi information minister, but he mentions him just a couple of times, once right in the regime's dying moments, when he makes 'a remarkable performance' on 'the BBC roof' (7 April).
	www.davidsteven.com /archive_etc/2003_07_01_archive.html (5552 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Andrew Gilligan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andrew Gilligan was the Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent for BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
		Prior to joining the BBC in 1999, Andrew spent five years at the Sunday Telegraph working on the foreign news desk and as the newspaper's Defence Correspondent.
		Andrew Gilligan was born in London on 22 November 1968.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/andrewgilligan.shtml (195 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Andrew Gilligan, the Radio 4 defence and diplomatic correspondent, was born in Teddington, south-west London on November 22, 1968.
		Gilligan joined the BBC in 1999, when he was taken on by the Today Programme's then-editor, Rod Liddle.
		Last week Gilligan appeared before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, where he responded to claims he was an "unsatisfactory witness" by insisting he had not changed his story over the dossier.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/20/ugil.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=78692 (317 words)

	The Media Report: 22 July 2004 - Role Reversal: Journalists Investigating Journalism
		Now there’s an argument that Andrew Gilligan made a serious mistake; he basically reported in a question and answer session on BBC Radio 4 that he had sources that would indicate that Tony Blair the Prime Minister lied about the reasons to prosecute the war in Iraq.
		But Gilligan is now arguing that the broader truth, that there was an unreasonably and unhealthy relationship between the intelligence services and executive government, is slowly being proved to be true.
		The important thing to know is not that Gilligan was not in the right place, he was in the right place, there were lots of questions to be asked which are even now still being asked, and as you say, being answered in part by the Butler Report, and it was a very legitimate area.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1157918.htm (4171 words)

	CNN.com - WMD claim reporter quits BBC - Jan. 30, 2004
		Gilligan arrives at BBC office on the day the Hutton Report was published.
		Reporter Andrew Gilligan who was criticized in the Hutton Report for saying the UK government exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to justify war has resigned from the BBC.
		Gilligan's report, based on an interview with weapons expert David Kelly, sparked a huge controversy last summer that eventually led to the scientist taking his own life.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/01/30/britain.gilligan (647 words)

	Denis Boyles on BBC on National Review Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gilligan, joined by his colleagues in Baghdad, Paul Wood and Rageh Omaar, kept insisting that not only had the Americans not gone to the "center" — which they reckoned to be where they were — they hadn't really been in the capital at all.
		One of the war's turning points had taken place under his nose and he and Gilligan the rest of his BBC colleagues in Baghdad had missed it, simply because they were convinced of American deceit and could not bring themselves to look for what they refused to believe had taken place.
		But as Andrew Sullivan recently wrote, "What the BBC is able to do, by broadcasting directly to these people, is to...make the war more bloody...If you assume that almost all these reporters and editors are anti-war, this BBC strategy makes sense.
	www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment072903.asp (3161 words)

	Digital Spy: Andrew Gilligan resigns
		Andrew Gilligan resigned from the BBC on Friday as the fallout from the findings of the Hutton Inquiry continued into another day.
		Gilligan also alleged in his report that the dossier had been deliberately "sexed up" by Tony Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, against the wishes of the intelligence community.
		Gilligan accepted that some parts of his report were wrong and apologised for those errors.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds13240.html (575 words)

	National Union of Journalists : Andrew Gilligan and the BBC: it was the right story
		The BBC and NUJ member Andrew Gilligan were right to pursue the story at the heart of the Hutton Inquiry.
		It revealed that reasons given by government to justify the invasion of Iraq were dubious and reflected concerns in the intelligence community that their work had been manipulated for political ends.
		The BBC and Andrew Gilligan were right to refuse to disclose David Kelly’s identity to the government or the public -- in contrast to the Government, which sought to manoeuvre Dr Kelly’s name into the public domain, without appearing to be responsible.
	www.nuj.org.uk /inner.php?docid=661 (609 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| But Andrew Gilligan got it right...
		Yet somehow they seem to have decided that Andrew Gilligan, and the BBC, were as much responsible for this tragedy as Alastair Campbell and the Labour Government.
		The syllogism seems to be that the BBC was viscerally against the war; that Andrew Gilligan works for the BBC; and that Andrew Gilligan was therefore viscerally against the war, and not to be trusted in his reporting of David Kelly's views.
		What really happened was that Andrew Gilligan, and two other journalists, found that the leading expert in Iraq's WMD programmes was alarmed at the spin being put on intelligence data.
	telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/24/do2402.xml (992 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Gilligan quits BBC over Hutton row
		BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan has resigned in the wake of the criticism directed at him in the Hutton report.
		Mr Gilligan conceded some of his story was wrong, and apologised for it.
		John Fray, of the National Union of Journalists, said it was Mr Gilligan's decision to resign.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3446391.stm (834 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Journalist accused by WMD committee
		Andrew Gilligan, who reported claims that the intelligence agencies were unhappy with the government's dossiers on Iraqi weapons, told the commons foreign affairs committee that his source for the story was closely involved in compiling the main dossier and was not a "rogue element".
		Mr Gilligan, who is defence correspondent on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and formerly worked for the Sunday Telegraph - known for its close connections with the security services - said that his source had told him that the information was "unreliable" and probably referred to conventional weapons.
		He said that Mr Gilligan was "making very serious allegations against the integrity of the JIC" and demanded to know whether he was accusing Mr Straw of "lying".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /iraq/story/0,12956,980991,00.html (769 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		South African journalists may have forgotten the name of Andrew Gilligan, but he's alive and well, visiting the country this week as a guest of the Rhodes journalism school.
		In his broadcast, Gilligan had also said that the British government knew this rendition of the 45-minute information was false.
		South African journalists last year were largely out of their depth in the spy claims story, such that the media ended up as a football between fierce political foes seeking to score goals in regard to public opinion.
	mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=139450&area=/insight/... (1186 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Profile: Andrew Gilligan
		Mr Gilligan is the defence and diplomatic correspondent for BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
		Reporting for Today, Gilligan went undercover to buy anti-personnel landmines in contravention of the 1998 Landmines Act and exposed the relative ease with which it was possible to register postal votes on behalf of dead people.
		In November 2000 Mr Gilligan was the first British journalist to report on plans for the draft European Union constitution.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3082323.stm (317 words)

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