This week in England  British Law Lord Brian Hutton secretly barred the release of all medical records on Dr. David Kelly, including results of the post mortem and unpublished evidence. This is vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of this government weapons inspector who was also an anthrax expert.

Hutton had them sealed for 70 years.

British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose about his work with anthrax and his warnings that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction at the time of his death in July 2003.

He was found dead in the woods near his home. The same woods he predicted he would be found in if the U.K. went to war with Iraq. He emailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller his fears moments before he took the fateful walk from which he never returned.

Yet his death was deemed a  "suicide" by Lord Hutton [who is a judge, not an expert coroner], even though the two experienced paramedics who were first responders said that was impossible. They've attended many people who have accidently or purposely cut their wrists and only one person ever died from their wounds. And that one had pints of blood around the room. According to their eye witness account, there was little if any blood on his wrist or around him at the scene. It was one small artery that experts say would not cause his death. Perplexed, they don't understand how a ruling of suicide could be made. 

According to the U.K. Daily Express "he [Kelly] was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion...and was also intending to lift the lid on a potentially bigger scandal, his own secret dealings in germ warfare with the apartheid regime in South Africa."

"Anybody concerned will be dead by then and that is quite clearly Lord Hutton's intention," said Nicholas Gardiner, the Chief Coroner for Oxfordshire on the sealing of Dr. Kelly's records. 

Who is served if evidence is suppressed for 70 years? Who is served if we don't know whether or not Dr. Kelly was murdered and by whom? The only people served would be the Government of the United Kingdom and possibly the United States. So did they have Dr. Kelly killed and are they now covering it up? Sealing records until all guilty players are dead and gone?

And if they don't like those questions, they should be in the business of transparency and democratic full disclosure instead of draconian cover-ups. (Or as they are calling this in London: whitewashing.)

Where is the BBC in reporting this more fully? Where is the American mainstream media? The fourth estate appears to be off drinking and playing Playstation instead of doing its job and holding corrupt politicians and government assassins accountable. Or as Bill Moyers once wrote: has the fourth estate become the fifth column? Dr. Kelly was a whistle-blower found dead as he predicted he would be of a non-fatal wound to his wrist. Now England has sealed all records surrounding his death for 70 years. Sounds worthy of a journalistic outcry to me.

Dr. Michael Powers, a doctor campaigning to overturn the Hutton findings, said: "What is it about David Kelly's death which is so secret as to justify these reports being kept out of the public domain for 70 years?"

Dr. Kelly was found dead shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the Government's claims that Saddam Hussein had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction which could be deployed within 45 minutes.

Last year a group of doctors compiled a medical dossier as part of their legal challenge to the Hutton verdict. They argue that Hutton's conclusion that Dr. Kelly killed himself by severing the ulnar artery in his left wrist after taking prescription painkillers is untenable because the artery is small and difficult to access and severing it could not have caused death. Also, he didn't have enough of the pain killers in his blood to kill him.

The Chief Coroner for Oxfordshire said in his opinion Lord Hutton had embargoed the records to protect Dr. Kelly's children. His "children" are in their thirties. How gullible do they think we are? Don't his "children" want to know the truth about their father?

Dr. Kelly was a biological weapons expert, a consummate insider and a trusted keeper of dangerous and deadly secrets that could topple governments. He was a prominent figure in the bio-weapons defense establishment. Three other anthrax experts died suspiciously before he did. Dr. Bruce Ivins, accused of mailing anthrax in the U.S. committed "suicide." Fellow scientists Benito Que and Don Wiley also died under suspicious circumstances.

A suspicious pattern of deaths of prominent microbiologists has emerged around the world, but especially highly-advanced researchers connected with the USA, the UK, Russia, and Israel. Were many of these microbiologists murdered because of what they knew or had discovered?

Benito Que was bludgeoned to death during an attempted carjacking except, "strangely enough, his body showed no signs of a beating," according to The Toronto Globe & Mail in 2002. 3 days later, Don Wiley, after planning a trip to Graceland, was found floating in the Mississippi river after his rental car was found on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn.

Dr. Kelly had reluctantly become an Enemy of the State. In a book on his death by Liberal-Democratic MP Norman Baker, one source told him that Kelly's death was "a wet operations, a wet disposal," a term used in intelligence circles to denote an assasination.

As of Wednesday January 27th, 2010 no hue and cry has been heard to protest this outrageous cover-up by the British government. Are citizens there numb or uninformed or in a mass coma?

British ambassador David Broucher reported a conversation he had with Kelly in Geneva. The ambassador asked Kelly what would happen if Iraq were invaded? The bio-weapons expert replied, "I will probably be found dead in the woods."

And two days after giving testimony before Parliment, he was.