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.
I suppose next we'll have reporters/democrats waving a blank piece of paper and talking about what shocking information "could" be on it.
LOL. They might as well. I can picture them doing it too, never once having it occur to them how stupid they are.
A former Air Force pilot who can't type a sentence correctly...yeah right! Bye Bye troll!
Wasn't Lucy found, dismembered, at the bottom of a Kenyan ravine and with a shrunken brain case??
In the 2000 campaign, it was Al Gore who stated, repeatedly, that "regime change in Iraq" would be a cornerstone of his administration's foreign policy.
Therefore Gore wanted this war from day #1, yes or no? Apply the same standards to Bush's statements as you do to Gore's, thank you.
This is kinda like Benny the gas station attendent destroying all the copies of the Declaration of Independence...and then Benny turns around and writes a copy himself of DOI himself. This is probably one of the most comical news bits of 2005, and makes Smith look like an absolute fool...you couldn't trust another story this guy dug up...because he is likely to repeat the same episode over and over.
I think she's actaully a sock puppet in Dan Rather's briefcase. So I've heard.
Yes. I have a relative who, for as long as I can remember, believes absolutely EVERYTHING she reads or hears, as long as it is from a leftist source (the more extreme, the better). This person engages in absolutely no logical analysis of the material to determine if the claim is plausible or makes any kind of sense. If something this person reads or hears today completely contradicts "information" read or heard yesterday, this person doesn't even notice. Logical, intelligent discussion with this person is impossible. This relative is a perfect microcosm of the left today.
Better keep it out of the hands of those reporters, then. ;)
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