Birt: BBC's reporting was 'wrong'

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Former BBC director general Lord Birt cast doubt on the BBC's reporting of the Iraq weapons dossier telling a senior government official that claims that the document had been 'sexed up' at the government's behest were known to be 'wrong', writes Gavin Stamp.

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