Downing Street Memo Originals Destroyed -UGH!

NewsMax ^ | 6/20/05 | Limbacher

[johnny7]

There's an article in today's Boston Herald... 'Kerry cautious on probing 'Downing Street Memo'.

Reminds me of a kid who drops a fart in a crowded room... and slinks out the door.

[Nemesis12]

Only last week, House Democrats staged a mock impeachment hearing based on the re-created document.

Do these people actually work? Tax payers money being wasted is what I think. What a bunch of loosers...

[Cowman]

the source of the memo now admitting he retyped the document before destroying the originals.

That's about as convenient as an unobserves autopsy followed by a quick cremation

[Liberty Valance]

This would actually be funny if it wasn't such a serious issue. Conyers and his crew have invoked the Dan Rather standard...NONE! And this is supposedly from 2002? Bull cookies!

[dfwgator]

"How conveeeenient."

[Petronski]

These retyped versions of the destroyed copies of the alleged originals remind me of the old Stephen Wright joke:

I have the authentic original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree. Of course, I did have to replace the handle....and the head. But it does occupy the same space.

[bray]

My dog ate my homework!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[stylin19a]

British reporter Michael Smith, who broke the memo story in the London Times on May 1, revealed to the Associated Press over the weekend that he "he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals."


Could this mean destroying the original copies ? Why would someone give up the real originals ? Why retype, when white-out/photocopy is easier to do ?

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

I typed a copy of my winning Powerball ticket, then destroyed the original. Here's the typed copy, right here. I swear I had the original, but I wanted to protect the identity of the 7-11 clerk who sold it to me. I can still get the money, right?

[boofus]

Can we put some fake bullets into the heads of these fake government document peddling fake journalists?

Really, it's getting quite taxing to have to put up with all these fabricated documents run by news agencies as 'truth'.

[ncountylee]

Kerry demands that Bush state his position on anonymously authenticated "mock-ups" of foreign documents that may or may not contain any real information.

I suggest hysterical laughter with knee slapping.

[liberallarry]

If you've read the 6 or 8 memos (whether real or geniune) you know there's nothing controversial in them.

After 911 the Administration decided that the world had become too dangerous to allow Saddam Hussein to continue in power. He was a lightening rod for anti-Western and anti-American attitudes, containment was failing (in the view of the Administration), and a new approach was needed towards Muslims and Arabs.

The only way to get rid of Saddam was by military action...so the Administration prepared - militarily, legally, politcally.

That's all there is to it...except that the media have "very selectively" quoted from the memos to try to make it look as if the Administration had done something very different from previous administrations in their preparations.

[dfwgator]

My dog ate my homework!!

More like...

"It wasn't my fault. Honest! I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!"

[InterceptPoint]

I'm sure that we will see a 60 Minutes expose on this within the next week or two.

[lowbridge]

Last week, a Kerry aide said his boss was sending a letter to President Bush demanding that he answer questions about the fake memo.

[Holicheese]

Couldn't he have blacked out the guys name on it instead of destroying the documents?

[libstripper]

It's much better for the kid to look at the girl sitting next to him and say, in a stage whisper, "Don't worry, I'll take the blame."

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The climb out of the hole becomes even more difficult.

[Sacajaweau]

Looks like they're using the word "cautious" in lieu of flip-flop. Bwahahahahaha

[George Smiley]

Bet there's some law over there he could be prosecuted under.

Bet it won't happen.