BTW, the seal in the reporter's 'copy' seems to simply be a negative of the 10 Downing Street seal in posts #22 & 24 (black is white, white is black) set within a circle. Is it possible such a seal is used for certain occassions, level of corrospondence, classified material, etc?
Of course that doesn't address the question of exactly why a reporter would add a seal to a copy he retyped if he wasn't trying to mislead.
Note the clever misspelling in my post #107, to throw any reporter off the scent by appearing dumber than I am, lest they discover that I am actually the brilliant Karl Rove, who used secret double agent Michael W. Smith to plant this phony memo and ultimately set up Chris Matthews and half the Senate Democrats (since it worked so well on Rather. HAHAHAHAHA!!!(cue lightning flash))
When was the Reuters photo first published? The DSM's existence was revealed by Smith May 1 as I understand it. The black circle above the lefteyepiece of the glasses in the Reuters photo makes me think this was a photocopy of an original that had hole-punches in it. If Smith destroyed his photocopies, how did Reuters photograph one, and when? After May 1? I would presume Smith would have destroyed the photocopies after his "typing/copy" job, but before the story went to press.