Gaza appeals and the BBC

I've been wondering over the past few days about the issue of the DEC appeal and the BBC. They are of course in a corner now, so I don't expect any changes. But here's my question: Has their reluctance to show the appeal got anything to do with the Iraq affair?

Remember how the then Government went after the BBC over the Iraq dossier? Whether the report was accurate or not, I do wonder whether we are paying a price for the nearest thing to a witch-hunt we've seen in recent years. At the time, as I listened to the report at the heart of the dossier debacle, I wondered then what the impact of it would become.