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Key To Downing Street Fakes? (Can I Be Famous Like Buckhead?)
20 JUNE 05 | Doctor Raoul

Posted on 06/20/2005 7:17:40 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul

As has been discussed on Free Republic earlier, Downing Street Memo Originals Destroyed -UGH!, British "reporter" Michael Smith has told Asociated Press that he copied the original on plain paper and then destroyed the originals.

But click here and you see a Reuters Wire Photo Showing a "Seal" on the "copy" offered to the press.



The caption reads, "A copy of the so-called 'Downing Street Memo', produced in July 2002 for Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair on the legality of the invasion of Iraq. Photo by Stephen Hird/Reuters".

Did he really destroy them, type them on plain paper? Don't look like plain paper to me Lucy.....Lucy Rameriz!

Looks like Michael Smith has adopted Dan Rather's mantra, "FORGE ON!"


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: britishmemo; downingstreetmemo; hoax; wannabe
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1 posted on 06/20/2005 7:17:40 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: OXENinFLA; Ernest_at_the_Beach

FYI


2 posted on 06/20/2005 7:19:27 PM PDT by Mo1 (Democrats Sold Out America ... just to regain power)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Pretty sleuth-like!!!


3 posted on 06/20/2005 7:20:35 PM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (60% of Saudis, 58%of Iraqis, 55%of Kuwaitis,50% of Jordanians married 1st or 2nd cousins. LOL!!!)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Great sleuthing, Doc.....


4 posted on 06/20/2005 7:20:54 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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To: Doctor Raoul

Woah.


5 posted on 06/20/2005 7:21:38 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (And our prisoners at Gitmo eat better than I do)
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To: Doctor Raoul
It sure looks like an official seal to me, which brings up the question as to the legitimacy of the entire story.

After all, if the document was "retyped" it wouldn't have been done on official stationary. If the document was going to be passed off as legitimate, it stands to reason that the official seal would have been forged as well.

6 posted on 06/20/2005 7:21:40 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Doctor Raoul

Yeah how could he have typed the seal? makes less sense everyday.


7 posted on 06/20/2005 7:21:49 PM PDT by Lovebloggers
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To: Doctor Raoul

bumpity bump!


8 posted on 06/20/2005 7:22:36 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I hate Hurricane Season!)
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To: Doctor Raoul

VERY eenteresting.


9 posted on 06/20/2005 7:22:53 PM PDT by Petronski (Be alert! The world needs more lerts.)
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To: Doctor Raoul; USF; jan in Colorado; Dark Skies

could lead to something very interesting...


10 posted on 06/20/2005 7:23:02 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Understand Islam. Understand Evil. Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD link My Page.)
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To: Reactionary
What "font" is that "Seal"?
11 posted on 06/20/2005 7:23:49 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Liberal Reporter)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Yes we must get Dan Blather and his crack team at 60 Minutes to investigate this.


12 posted on 06/20/2005 7:23:56 PM PDT by NewMediaFan (Fake but accurate)
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To: Doctor Raoul
I like the goofy glasses highlight on Secret and Prime Minister.

It looks like a still from Court TV's "Forensic Files".

13 posted on 06/20/2005 7:25:13 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Lovebloggers
Yeah how could he have typed the seal?

Harrrumph! LOTS of Selectrics could do that. I know! Anybody who does not believe me is a pot smoking Libdopian UFO sighting freak.

14 posted on 06/20/2005 7:25:19 PM PDT by Haru Hara Haruko
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To: Doctor Raoul
Any idea as to the significance of the shadow of a pair of eyeglasses? Which, by the way, anyone with a working knowledge of optics can tell are fake.

(steely)

15 posted on 06/20/2005 7:25:50 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

The seal may be the seal/letterhead of an organization he works for -- they are big on that kind of thing over there.


16 posted on 06/20/2005 7:25:55 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: Doctor Raoul
What font is that seal?

That's no font, that's my daddy!


17 posted on 06/20/2005 7:26:53 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Reactionary
It's a Father Downing mystery!
18 posted on 06/20/2005 7:27:45 PM PDT by Perdogg (Perdogg for President - 2008 (Party every night at the White house))
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To: Doctor Raoul

bump


19 posted on 06/20/2005 7:28:07 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Jane Fonda might as well make her gravestone a urinal. Semper Fi)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Today on Rush .. he was discussing the name of Michael Smith and Rush was questioning whether or not there was a Michael Smith who worked with Mary Mapes in Texas. I think Rush established that there is such a person who had some connection to Burkett .. but Rush is investigating whether or not it's the same Michael Smith involved with this story.

And .. it is really the DOWNING STREET MINUTES - it's not a memo. It's the minutes from a meeting.


20 posted on 06/20/2005 7:28:59 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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