Josh Marshall's latest on the Butler report

[Rose Siding]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_07_11.php#003160

[kentuck]

1. <a little snip>

<snip>
The newly-released Butler Report -- a rough analogue in the UK to the Senate intel report out last week -- not only exonerates Tony Blair's
government for the claims included in the Iraqi weapons 'dossier' but -- in an act of supererogation that gives new meaning to the Anglo-British 'special relationship -- also exonerates President Bush for using his famous 'sixteen words' in the 2003 State of the Union speech, calling his claim "well-founded."

...more

[Rose Siding]

2. How about this-

The problem is that the Report doesn't give any details about what those reports were, thus giving very little way to assess their credibility. And that leaves us pretty much where we've been for a year, with the Brits claiming they had other evidence not connected to the documents but unwilling to describe what the evidence was.

and then he says

More on this to follow.

D'ya suppose Marshall knows that some reporters *know* what the other evidence is and it's trash? Or is he just keeping the ends tidy for a different portion of the saga/breaking scandal?

[creeksneakers2]

3. The way I read this is

that there was evidence but not proof. This is being quoted as the British once again standing behind the Niger claim when they are not. They are just saying that Blair's support wasn't fabricated out of nothing.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. kick