[Mo1]

FYI

[Luigi Vasellini]

Pretty sleuth-like!!!

[mystery-ak]

Great sleuthing, Doc.....

[NeoCaveman]

Woah.

[Reactionary]

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.

[Lovebloggers]

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

[tiredoflaundry]

bumpity bump!

[Petronski]

VERY eenteresting.

[Fred Nerks]

could lead to something very interesting...

[NewMediaFan]

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

[dead]

I like the goofy glasses highlight on Secret and Prime Minister.

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

[Steely Tom]

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)

[expatpat]

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

[CyberAnt]

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.

[postaldave]

what i find funny is that lack of interest in the fact that this might(IS) just be another fake. it would seem Conservatives just expect fraud and fakes now. should we at this time bring up all those senators who had the downing street memo impeach bush meeting on treason charges? one would think you would vet such things before calling for the head of a country. probably not, same old dumb nice guys.

[TheForceOfOne]

It says "Secret" above the seal but I can't make out what appears to be three letters on the seal itself.

[RGSpincich]

Got a real memo from HERE

Maybe the secret memos are different.

[Lovebloggers]

Actually now that I think about it I am sure Michael Smith was provided with blank letterhead from Downing Street as opposed to actual documents -- much easier that way to type up anything he needs.

One size fits all type of deal.

[ReignOfError]

Yeah, and plain paper doesn't usually have diffuse shadows of eyeglass frames on it. And rarely is part of the page crisp and the other rest blurry. No one uses courier any more. Etc. If the seal was the only thing you noticed, you have a particularly narrow form of tunnel vision.

It's a graphic. It's an illustration. The fact that it's labeled a "photo" indicates that something is dicey wth the way Reuters labels its images or the way Yahoo reads the labels. If you want to read some kind of conspiracy into that, knock yourself out.

[SevenofNine]

OFFF COURSE Dr Raoul go for it

Smack around BBC LOL!