Wow, isn't a "70-year gagging order" the most explicit cover-up possible? I doubt that secretly classifying post-mortem examination reports is standard.

There was a reason that the Hutton report was seen as a whitewash by a very large number of people both inside and outside of the government.

Surely that was Ardit20's whole point. "You can't kill Assange because it's too suspicious. Dr Kelly's death, for example, was suspicious".

Of course you can kill Assange in a way that is just as suspicious as this whole story. In fact that would be a lot more effective. Mugging in an alley gone wrong, fatal stab wound. Traffic accident. People die all the time, Assange is not immune to that.

A bullet to the head would be problematic.

His files are closed for 70 years! So it is not a good example, hence the added details about being the dawn of the war in Iraq and although he was on the news, not quite known in the way the wikileaks founder is.

This government appears to be thinking of reopening the files however. People have come out saying that there are doubts about the inquiry, that its conclusions are not plausable. My point was therefore that we live in a democracy where the death of someone, even where mighty powers are concerned, is not simply shrugged under the carpet.