(New York Times) The BBC on Wednesday broadcast a documentary that aired a litany of its own mistakes in reporting the suspected misuse of intelligence. The BBC was described by its own producers as being too loose with language, too distracted to investigate charges that its reporting was wrong, and simply negligent in checking the basis of a two-minute report on May 29, 2003, that members of Prime Minister Blair's staff had "sexed up" the case to go to war with Iraq by using intelligence they "probably knew" was wrong.
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