[stm]

Well, isn't that special!!!

[darkwing104]

Looks like Mr. Smith has a promising future with CBS...

[FreePaul]

...at some point stories based on official documents will require authentication --

Not if they can be used to discredit President Bush.

[chesley]

Of course on DU they're saying that claiming their "evidence" is a fake or a fraud is just a standard FReeper procedure to divert attention from the "truth" that Bush "lied" us into war.

Wonder if they can spell 'loser'?

[Gaetano]

Lucy Ramirez strikes again !

[MindBender26]

Even of they are direct transcriptions, they don't "say" anything!

[crazyhorse691]

So journalism now is about protecting your anonymous secret unnamed source rather than fact checking your story. Idiot!!

[maestro]

LOL

?........ARE THE DOWNING STREET MEMOS FAKE?

........no way!

........many 'folks' have died to 'keep-cover'.....the details?

.........was the 'blue dress' fake?

/extreme sarcasm?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Has anyone checked the FBI memos that Durbin read and referenced? Are they authentic?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

Priceless.

[BenLurkin]

"Fake but accurate" perhaps?

[eyespysomething]

I don't think Blair or President Bush denied them in their press conference, did they?

I think our concentration needs to be whether or not the content means anything relevant.

It doesn't.

[HitmanLV]

I would think that if they were fakes, they would have been a lot more damning.

[N. Theknow]

Coming next week:

A. Photo shop pictures and a signed confession from W, "I was the man on the Grassy Knoll."
B. A long lost Chappaquiddick Sheriff's memo proving W. was driving Teddy's car.
C. Alabama Air National Guard mission documents that W. accidently touched off his missiles blowing up JFK, Jr.'s plane.
D. Photographic evidence that W. held a match to Howard Dean's butt in Iowa and made him yell.
E. All of the above.

[Red Badger]

Dan Rather says they are for real!............a little Robin told him so.......

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Field day ? The MSM is backing away from this memo like a crawdad from a hungry bass. So is John F'n Kerry, who promised to lead the charge for W's impeachment.

[jennyjenny]

Looks like CBS just found their replacement for the nightly news.

[hflynn]

You know calling these memos the Downing Street Memos is a liberal technique to give creditability to the memos by attempting to tie the memos to Tony Blair whose residence as England's PM is No. 10 Downing Street. The Downing Street Memos are really the Fleet Street Memos. Fleet Street in London is the traditional home of the national press which we refer to as the MSM.

[M Kehoe]

Could care less if true or false. It was U.S. policy to evict Saddam from power. By an act of Congress, sign by the president (i42) circa 1998.

Who cares anyway? It sure isn't the general public.

Regardless, I think we should sic Dan Rather on the story. I'm sure he will come up with something...right, Kenneth?

5.56mm

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It doesn't help that Smith went to such weird lengths -- such as the manual typewriter and artificially aging the appearance through multiple copying -- to produce the information.

Reminds me of Perry Mason's Case of the Elusive Element. I suppose by this standard the Jews need to disprove the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."

NYT Headline: "Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS, Fake but Accurate, Experts Say"

[backhoe]

Go to the "last," work back, and be sure to follow all the links within the links:

Downingstreetmemo- Smoke, but where's the Fire?