AS LORD HUTTON prepares to wrap up his investigation into the suicide of arms expert David Kelly, it seems that British Prime Minister Tony Blair will escape legal charges that his government had falsified and exaggerated prewar intelligence information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Yet, Blair is hardly in the clear: the investigation's revelations about the Blair government's handling of intelligence and its treatment of Kelly have significantly damaged the Labor leader's political standing.
The Parliament Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) concluded in a Sept. 11 report that, during the preparation of a September 2002 dossier documenting British intelligence …
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