I lost a lot of confidence in governments in general when the French authorities decided to blow up the Greenpeace boat and ended up killing a civilian.<p>Governments can and do operate clandestinely, the only real question is how much.<p>David Kelly's death came at a very good time for the British Government, he had already proven to be willing to go public with potentially very damning information.<p>My take on it was that he would have continued to make plain his findings until either the British participation in the Iraq war would have become untenable or there would have been a government crisis.<p>The interesting part is that after all the dust settled it all seemed to boil down to the exact definition of what it means when a report is 'sexed up', as vague a term as you could want to have for that purpose.<p>Apparently 'selecting evidence that is convenient whilst leaving out that which is inconvenient' is not enough.