The BBC aired an apology the day after the program was broadcast, but it did little to contain the fallout from the false accusation.

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Mr Sarkozy, who suspected a plot at the time to destabilise him, has sued Mr Bertrand for false accusation, forgery and invasion of privacy.

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But before getting carried away, remember that Mr Kerry now has 610 delegates to Mr Edwards's 192 a margin that will be hard to overcome unless the front-runner implodes because of a mistake or a scandal (he has already survived one false accusation of having had an affair).

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This accusation is again false.

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Kelly was the source of an accusation that Mr Campbell had had false claims inserted into a dossier that the government had published to help justify the war in Iraq, overriding the objections of intelligence chiefs.

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