Downing Street Memo Originals Destroyed -UGH!

NewsMax ^ | 6/20/05 | Limbacher

[Howlin]

is actually a manually recreated copy -

FGS, "manually."

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

I'd bet my house that's a lie; who in this day and age would take the time to RETYPE it? Why not white out the names and photocopy it?

[AnAmericanMother]

[OESY]

CBS and Dan Rather's name are now irretrievably linked to document forgeries. What fine legacies, and well-deserved too!

[Grampa Dave]

Of course it is a lie, sham and shades of Mary Mapes and Dan Blather.

[bray]

That is toooo funny!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Howlin]

I have been out this weekend; does this "story" have traction? Can you bring me up to date?

[Ragtop]

Brilliant! Did you know that Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher were dating at the time. Hence her role in the film. She eventually picked Paul Simon (the singer, not the Senator) over Aykroyd, though.

[InvisibleChurch]

u cant destroy something that dont exist

[federal]

You are absolutely correct, those memos contain nothing but a record of the clear thinking that was going on both in Washington and London.

To have not re-evaluated Saddam's Iraq after 9-11 would have been gross negligence. And the fact is the only way Saddam Hussein was ever going to be gotten rid of was through military intervention.

[Antonello]

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."

There is no freakin' way a reporter would destroy the originals. Maybe put them in a safe deposit box, mail them to himself, give them to a trusted friend to hide, etc., but not destroy them!

Those originals would potentially net him a Pulitzer, and possibly a legacy, if this story actually brought down world leaders. No way would he burn that glory source.

[Grampa Dave]

I was out basically the weekend too.

The story had the usual traction here in the states with Conyers, DU and the some of the left wing liberals.

What is interesting is Moi Kerri has come forward to present this bs. His Brit lib friends probably told him to back off.

[johnny7]

I honestly believe Kerry takes little advice from his aides... or anybody who hasn't 'summered' on the Brittany Coast.

[Antonello]

I've known since day one, they were fake.

I'm sure the originals did exist.

I'm equally sure they suffered some minor 'rewording' during the 'manual reproduction' process. Thus the reason the precious originals could not be allowed to live. They would be too valuable to a reporter otherwise.

[NRA1995]

Every time I see the Dems get all excited about things like this memo, I feel like I'm watching "Smokey & The Bandit" as Jackie Gleason is foiled again by Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed.

[chudogg]

Only thing i got from the Downing Street Memos was that some dude living in England is of the opinion that Bush lied to go to war. Thousands of people have that opinion, i dont see whats so great about somebody in England writing it down on paper, or if the document is fake or not.

[woofie]

Ive got a Downing Street Memo that says GW Bush thinks he is Napoleon

[Antonello]

Ive got a Downing Street Memo that says GW Bush thinks he is Napoleon

And I've got one that says Napoleon thinks he's W.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

We all know there WERE no originals, this is yet another Marxist/Fabian Fraud.

Throw this 'journalist' tool on a lie detector.

And then cut off ears, turn up the voltage, in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Khan....

(the old John F. Kerry formula...)

/ sarc

[MJY1288]

Conyers should be forced to pay us taxpayers back for that Mock hearing he held the other day. I'm surprised that moron didn't wear a judges robe for the hearing, he did have them all refer to him as "Mr. Chairman" though :-)

What a joke the Democrats are