Emailing the wrong person can be deadly

David Kelly, once employed by the British Defense Ministry, was a former UN weapons inspector who had been previously deployed to Iraq. He was found dead in July 2003 about a mile from his home, having ingested more than two dozen pain-killers and with a cut in his left wrist.

A "Blue Ribbon" inquiry ruled the death a suicide, but skeptics -- including several prominent doctors and coroners -- challenged the inquiry's conclusion. They said Kelly could not have taken his own life through such a small cut.

Others noted that Kelly had been in touch with BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan that month about Britain's dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. He'd also emailed then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller the day before he was found dead. Miller was instrumental to selling the war in the United States, as one of the Times' top reporters on WMDs. Some elements of Miller's reporting later turned out to be patently false.

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