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Did Lucy Ramirez Find The Downing Street Memos?(Fake, but accurate memos??)
captainsquartersblog.com ^ | 6/19/05 | Captains Quarters

Posted on 06/19/2005 6:53:54 AM PDT by mabelkitty

The media and the Leftists have had a field day with the Downing Street memos that they claim imply that the Bush administration lied about the intelligence on WMD in order to justify the attack on Iraq. Despite the fact that none of the memos actually say that, none of them quote any officials or any documents, and that the text of the memos show that the British government worried about the deployment of WMD by Saddam against Coalition troops, Kuwait and/or Israel, the meme continues to survive.

Until tonight, however, no one questioned the authenticity of the documents provided by the Times of London. That has now changed, as Times reporter Michael Smith admitted that the memos he used are not originals, but retyped copies (via LGF and CQ reader Sapper):

The eight memos — all labeled "secret" or "confidential" — were first obtained by British reporter Michael Smith, who has written about them in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals.

The AP obtained copies of six of the memos (the other two have circulated widely). A senior British official who reviewed the copies said their content appeared authentic. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secret nature of the material.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britishmemo; downingstreetmemo; dummies; englandsdanrather; fakebutaccurate; fakebutirrelevant; forgeries; justtrustme; lucyramirez; memogateii; ramirez; rathergateii; seebsreporting; theywererealinmymind; whoislucyramirez
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1 posted on 06/19/2005 6:53:55 AM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: mabelkitty

How convenient that the originals were destroyed, ha ha.


2 posted on 06/19/2005 6:56:52 AM PDT by hugorand
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To: mabelkitty

Let's see those copies!


3 posted on 06/19/2005 6:57:05 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: mabelkitty
Copies of copies of copies, eh? And the moonbats have only an anoymous source to vouch for the authenticity of the contents. Weeeeeel, in courts, substitutes are NOT accepted as suitable documentation. A court will consider only the original certified document in the course of a case. So much for the moonbats claim they've found the "smoking gun" that showed the Bush Administration rushed the country into war.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
4 posted on 06/19/2005 6:57:22 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mabelkitty

gunga dan, call your agent and pack a bag your lying ratmedia career may be back up and running.


5 posted on 06/19/2005 6:57:23 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Dealing with liberals? Remember: when you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and he loves it.)
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To: mabelkitty; AFPhys; prairiebreeze; onyx; Texasforever; CyberAnt; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; ...
Until tonight, however, no one questioned the authenticity of the documents provided by the Times of London. That has now changed, as Times reporter Michael Smith admitted that the memos he used are not originals, but retyped copies (via LGF and CQ reader Sapper):

HELLO!!!

6 posted on 06/19/2005 6:58:17 AM PDT by Mo1 (Democrats Sold Out America ... just to regain power)
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To: mabelkitty

Oh that pesky Lucy!


7 posted on 06/19/2005 6:59:52 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana (I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez wasn't cool.)
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To: mabelkitty

Honest journalism should tag these memos as 'alleged'.


8 posted on 06/19/2005 7:00:10 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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9 posted on 06/19/2005 7:00:49 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Harsh not my mellow)
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To: mabelkitty

What ever happened to CBS's search for Lucy, anyway?


10 posted on 06/19/2005 7:01:53 AM PDT by pissant
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Are you telling me that this memo is a re-type of several memeos put together? Are you telling me this? GD - this just maybe the final straw for me. HELLO PEOPLE. THe libs have declared war on me, my president and this country. Its time to make some noise. UGH..... Maybe we can fake a memo, huh. No one seems to check. Oh they would for on a conservative republican, wouldnt they.


11 posted on 06/19/2005 7:02:24 AM PDT by newconhere
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That is hilarious--


12 posted on 06/19/2005 7:03:29 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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[H]e had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals.

DAM! If Bill Burkett had thought of that, he'd be eating steak and chicken instead of black-eyed peas and rice. Mary Mapes would be eating on the arm at Elaine's, instead of waiting tables in Greenwich Village and Dan Rather would still flying CBS Nightly News into a death spiral instead of boring strangers in airport lobbies with his tales of daring-do in Afganistan 25 years ago.

13 posted on 06/19/2005 7:03:43 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: jmaroneps37
Dan Rather, in London reporting for duty for See-BS News...Courage!


14 posted on 06/19/2005 7:04:14 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: mabelkitty

LOL!!!!! Hey DU investigate this, you idiots!


15 posted on 06/19/2005 7:04:25 AM PDT by cmsgop (catch A+BERT in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants")
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Who wants to go break the news to Conyers on his blog?


16 posted on 06/19/2005 7:05:02 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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To: jmaroneps37

gunga dan, call your real estate agent you're about to get a British Room mate from the Times and that ain't the NY Times.


17 posted on 06/19/2005 7:05:30 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: lodwick; Cuttnhorse; operation clinton cleanup; Servant of the 9; catpuppy; null and void; ...

FYI


18 posted on 06/19/2005 7:05:30 AM PDT by Mo1 (Democrats Sold Out America ... just to regain power)
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What???? Retyped copies? Ala Dan Rather's memos. OMG


19 posted on 06/19/2005 7:06:19 AM PDT by Peach
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To: martin_fierro

Why wasn't that memo marked DBR? (Destroy Before Reading?)


20 posted on 06/19/2005 7:06:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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