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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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To: OXENinFLA; Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:19:27 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Democrats Sold Out America ... just to regain power)
To: Doctor Raoul
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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!!!)
To: Doctor Raoul
Great sleuthing, Doc.....
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:21:38 PM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(And our prisoners at Gitmo eat better than I do)
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.
To: Doctor Raoul
Yeah how could he have typed the seal? makes less sense everyday.
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:22:36 PM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(I hate Hurricane Season!)
To: Doctor Raoul
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:22:53 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Be alert! The world needs more lerts.)
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.)
To: Reactionary
What "font" is that "Seal"?
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:23:49 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Support Our Troops, Spit On A Liberal Reporter)
To: Doctor Raoul
Yes we must get Dan Blather and his crack team at 60 Minutes to investigate this.
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:23:56 PM PDT
by
NewMediaFan
(Fake but accurate)
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".
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:25:13 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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.
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)
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:25:50 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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.
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:25:55 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: Doctor Raoul
What font is that seal? That's no font, that's my daddy!
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:26:53 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Reactionary
It's a Father Downing mystery!
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posted on
06/20/2005 7:27:45 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Perdogg for President - 2008 (Party every night at the White house))
To: Doctor Raoul
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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)
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.
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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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