Newsnight 13 August

Presented by Jon Sopel.

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Hutton inquiry
Once again the BBC's role in events leading up to the death of the government weapons expert Dr David Kelly has been the focus of the Hutton inquiry. For the first time it heard Dr Kelly's own voice, in a recording made by Newsnight's science editor Susan Watts. It also heard from the Head of BBC News, Richard Sambrook.

We analysed where the evidence left the BBC's position.

Missiles
Fresh information has emerged about the FBI investigation into an alleged plot to smuggle an anti-aircraft missile into the United States. How big a threat do such missiles pose?

State of the economy

The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has given his first quarterly inflation report. Our economics correspondent Stephanie Flanders was listening in, and unpicked this latest assessment of the state of the economy.

Psyche of the Right
And can conservatism be explained as a set of neuroses rooted in fear, aggression and the intolerance of ambiguity? That's the conclusion of a group of US Government funded psychologists. We peered into the psyche of the Right.

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