I see I was wrong (I'll explain in a sec), but I was thinking how the creation of the 9/11 Commission was out of a partisan desire to show "Bush Knew" and it was created in 2002.
Now, the reason I see the memo must have been written in 2003 is this part of it:
"For example, in addition to the President's State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.
That must be a reference to the infamous "Sixteen Words" from the 2003 SOTU.
But I still maintain it's part of the same plan. Take intelligence and twist it for partisan purposes. Can anything be more despicable? We've known it for ages, but it's still stunning when one ponders it for any amount of time.
It is I who is confused and mucking up the waters here; I'm behind in my reading and you all have "moved on" to a different memo.
I'll catch up!
I still can't find a photocopy of the memo, but the scata had hit the fan by November 5th. That's the date that Rockefeller claimed on national television that he hadn't ordered the memo's creation.