[abner]

Did you get a hold of Dom?

[chudogg]

Who cares if they are fake? There is nothing remotely controversial or interesting in the memos in the first place. Regardless of the feeble minded attempts of liberals screaming "DOWNING STREET MEMOS!" over and over at each other in internet chat rooms.

[F.J. Mitchell]

We, your fellow Freepers, dub thee, "Doctor Raoul Buckhead"

Well done.

[Polybius]

The linked Reuters page adds:

"Recommend THIS PHOTO.... Recommend It: "

It seems that Reuters was just conducting a PhotoShop image contest.......... The eyeglasses in the image were a nice touch.

Be that as it may, anybody could claim to have transcribed the original of any document and then destroyed the originals.

I transcribed the original confession where John Kerry admitted to sabotaging Senator Heinz's aircraft so that he could later marry Teresa Heinz and live off a $550 million fortune. Of course, I destroyed the originals to protect my sources.

[jocon307]

Doctor Raoul, you are ALREADY famous like Buckhead. Next we must discover if you can bend it like Beckham!

[GOPJ]

hmmmmm...

[Peace will be here soon]

For later reading.

[jtullins]

Sorry to burst the bubble of all the conspiracy theorists, but the DSM is supposed to be the minutes of a meeting of high level British officials. If somebody just made it up, they would've officially denied it by now, instead of just saying no comment.

[Reactionary]

What's most bizarre about the seal is that, if you magnify the image in Photoshop, it appears to be a *raised* seal.

It may be a photocopy and the raised seal has merely been duplicated as a function of shadow. It doesn't look that way to me, however. It may be an original. There's no way it's simply been retyped on plain paper using an old typewriter.

I suppose it's possible that the seal could have been duplicated using a rubber stamp and then photocopied, but then it's evident that the journalist's story is a complete lie.

[lowbridge]

Can I Be Famous Like Buckhead?

I thought you already were.

Ah, well. You do know the Famous FReepers secret handshake, dont you?

[advance_copy]

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."

Wow Doc! Excellent catch. The photo is obviously NOT "plain paper". Only the originals would have the Downing Street seal on them. And AP says "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".

[GeorgeW23225]

You "ARE" the new Buckhead!!

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!

[Kay]

bump

[mcg1969]

According to Wizbang, here are PDF's of the released memos.

http://www.boozle.net/leak/

None of these memos match the one pictured---that is, the text is not the same. Not sure what to make of it.