I don't see how [Gilligan] could make the authoritative statement [he] was making from the comments I made," Kelly told the panel. But in comments made to journalist Tom Mangold, a friend, Kelly said he believed he was the source for about 60 percent of Gilligan's report.
The BBC statement raised several possibilities: that Kelly lied to the committee about what he told Gilligan; that Gilligan hyped or otherwise distorted what Kelly had said; or that Gilligan had another source for the specific allegations against Campbell.