[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?

[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.

[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.

[George Smiley]

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

Bet it won't happen.

[OESY]

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

[InvisibleChurch]

u cant destroy something that dont exist

[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.

[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

[Pylot]

Is this starting to smell like Rathergate??

[Libertarian444]

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

Well, isn't that conveeeeeeenient....

[madison10]

One would think that after the last anti-Bush fiasco the Libs would quit with the fake memo ploy. Duh.

[lilylangtree]

"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"

Repeat! Repeat of Dan Blabber episode.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Downing Street Memo Originals Destroyed -UGH!

They teach that in journalism schools these days. It's called the Buckhead protocol.

[God luvs America]

hysterical