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Non-story Of The Day - Bush Was Set on Path to War

Posted by Kevin · Published: March 27, 2006 · Comments (9)

The New York Times leads with Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says, which details a 5-page British memo recounting a January 2003 Oval office meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush.LONDON - In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of... [Full Story]

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Bloggers Strikeout On UK Torture Memos

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2005 · Comments (19)

[Note: Check the updates for links to prior publication of these "exclusives," and follow the listed trackbacks and this followup piece for more backstory.] Lefty UK bloggers, Blair watchers, and now Daily Kos are trumpeting their coordinated release (or rather mirroring) of two documents from a forthcoming book by UK.... [Full Story]

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Reuters "Seals" their own fate

Posted by Paul · Published: June 22, 2005 · Comments (0)

Rob over at Say Anything (whom you should be reading if you ain't) had entirely too much fun with Reuters today. They screwed up the supposed picture of the Downing Street memo and rather then just 'fess up, they just painted themselves into a corner. Good work Rob... [Full Story]

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So Where Did They Get the Seal From?

Posted by Paul · Published: June 21, 2005 · Comments (29)

The curious story of how the Downing Street Memo's got to the media just took a direct hit. Reuters has a photo of the documents released to press with a government seal on them. The problem is, of course, that the PDF's of the memos don't have these seals on... [Full Story]

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Are The Downing Street Memos Bogus? (2 Updates)

Posted by Paul · Published: June 19, 2005 · Comments (46)

In at twist that would make the forensics guys who handed O.J. Simpson's DNA proud, there is a big problem with the "chain of evidence" of the Downing Street Memos. It seems they were "recreations." Bizarrely, the AP did not make much of it, burying it in another story: The... [Full Story]

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Moonbats On Parade - Downing Street Memo Edition

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 17, 2005 · Comments (282)

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank covers Rep. John Conyers's Downing Street Memo PR stunt yesterday in, Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War:In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe. They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing... [Full Story]

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Conyers To Hold Downing Street Memo Stunt

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 16, 2005 · Comments (68)

Rep. John Conyers, as predicted here 10 days ago, will hold one of his patented "fake hearings" on the Downing Street Memo Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. EST. Pay no attention to the fact that the witnesses list is lead by the same lead witness (John Bonifz) who presented at... [Full Story]

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Downing Street Memo: The Meaning Of The Word "Fixed"

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 8, 2005 · Comments (80)

Those pushing the Downing Street Memo have built their house of cards entirely on the pen of Matthew Rycroft, Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister, in is role as meeting note taker. Especially drawing their attention is this curious line:"But the intelligence and facts were being fixed... [Full Story]

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Bush And Blair Address Downing Street Memo

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 8, 2005 · Comments (12)

A a joint news conference yesterday British Prime Minister Blair and President Bush denied that either side had "fixed" the intelligence about Iraq's weapons to justify war.(Steve Holland/Reuters): Thank you, sir. On Iraq, the so-called Downing Street memo from July 2002 says intelligence and facts were being fixed around the... [Full Story]

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Downing Street Memo Dissected

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 6, 2005 · Comments (79)

James S. Robbins, senior fellow in national-security affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council, takes apart the Downing Street Memo at NRO.The memo raises three issues dear to the hearts of President Bush's critics - the timing of the decision to go to war with Saddam, the WMD rationale, and... [Full Story]

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Wizbang Media Alert

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 3, 2005 · Comments (38)

I'll be on Washington Journal (C-SPAN) Saturday June 4 at 7:45AM EDT discussing the Downing Street Memo along with Democratic activist Steve Cobble of AfterDowningStreet.org. It's a live call in show... Update: When the online version of the show is available we'll have a link to it. Update 2: Mark... [Full Story]

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No Moonbat Left Behind

Posted by Kevin · Published: June 2, 2005 · Comments (36)

Lefty bloggers are in titters over a Fox News article about the Downing Street Memo; an article in which I was one of those interviewed. Kelley Vlahos of Fox News called me last week to comment on the Downing Street Memo, having seen my story on the memo - Secret... [Full Story]

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Secret Downing Street Memo Fails To Sizzle

Posted by Kevin · Published: May 21, 2005 · Comments (30)

Political opponents of the President and those opposed to the war in Iraq have been trying, with spectacularly poor results, to make a secret July 2002 memo by British foreign policy aide Matthew Rycroft a "smoking gun" proving the White House was intent on war with Iraq earlier previously indicated.... [Full Story]

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