Froomkin: "The Memo Comes In From the Cold"

[sabra]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/06/08/BL2005060801519.html

The Memo Comes In From the Cold

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, June 8, 2005; 2:09 PM

After six weeks in the political wilderness, the Downing Street Memo yesterday finally burst into the White House -- and into the headlines.

The memo, which dates back to 2002, conveys a British intelligence official's conclusion that President Bush was manipulating intelligence to build support for war with Iraq -- and that he was already set on invasion long before acknowledging as much in public. The Sunday Times of London first published a leaked version on May 1.


British Prime Minister Tony Blair was visiting with Bush yesterday, and when a question about the memo came up at their abbreviated joint press conference -- the first time Bush has been asked to comment about it -- Blair threw himself at its potentially explosive allegations in an attempt to muffle the damage.

Bush then followed, insisting that he had tried to resolve the standoff with Saddam Hussein peacefully, but that in any case the world is better off with Hussein gone

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It remains unclear how big of a blowup the memo represents for the White House. Bush partisans consider it either old news, or flatly wrong, or both.
And the American press still demonstrates no intention of aggressively following it up.

But even if the memo doesn't detonate, there are suddenly several other potential scandals sputtering away in the press today to cause the White House worry.

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[AFSCME girl]

1. RECOMMENDING! n/t

[babsbunny]

2. ANYONE TRYING TO BURY THIS STORY

Anyone trying to discredit this memo is just as bad as the administration who allowed this illegal war to happen. Anyone trying to silence this important, and Impeachable truth has blood on their hands too!!!! Our babies are dying!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Absolutely!

[Karenina]

3. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Practice, practice, practice.

REPETITON which MUST INCLUDE correcting mistakes. This is not a "memo" to the office manager to order *paperclips. ;-)

DOWNING STREET MINUTES - OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT MINUTES OF AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT MEETING - distributed to U.K. EYES ONLY in the form of a memorandum...

[sabra]

4. me likes!

[blm]

10. I agree. And accurate repetition is an imperative in this case.

The MINUTES of the meeting.

[kittenpants]

20. I like your banner-dragging dogs! n/t

[seemslikeadream]

22. Put this in front of what's in the message box - [marquee direction=left]

 


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[seemslikeadream]

21. Practice, practice, practice

[Pirate Smile]

5. Five pages full of scandal and corruption.

[Rob H.]

6. Kick-ass article. Thanks for the heads-up, sabra.

:yourock:

[BigBearJohn]

7. This thread should read: "WAPO article CRUCIFIES Bush!"

[sabra]

9. 5 pages.... it's a laundry list of items!

[blm]

11. Is it also in the hard copy or just the website? That makes the difference

when it comes to whether the broadcast media will even give it a glance or if they think they can get away with their benign neglect of important stories.

[sabra]

13. I think only via online

"
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
"

[City Lights]

14. I take the "Special to WaPo.com" to mean web only.

:-(

That it appears at all is a step in the right direction, but we need this stuff in the headlines of the print copy.

[Stirk]

8. I love how Republicans try to wave a hand and say that

war profiteering and lying the country into war is "old news".

[CantGetFooledAgain]

12. Awesome. The ball is rolling! (n/t)

[MadisonProgressive]

16. This really kills me

"But Milbank writes: "Holland, a consummate professional, wasn't trying to satisfy the wing nuts -- 'good grief,' he said when told later about the prize money -- and won't be collecting."

So anyone that wants to hold * accountable for his crimes is a 'wing nut'????? :grr:

[NewJeffCT]

17. wow, 5 page article

kicking so I can read at home later.

[ClintonTyree]

18. My hope....

is that there are so many holes in bush's deceitful dike that it is impossible to plug them all and a torrent of truth washes them into oblivion.
If the entire truth about this most evil, corrupt administration was to unfold at once, there wouldn't be enough hours in the day to cover it.
All we need is ONE patriot to come forth and start the ball rolling. Please, PLEASE....come forward with the proof positive that will start bringing this most vile administration down. Just get the ball rolling. Save our country....PLEASE! :applause:

[go west young man]

19. Great article!

I couldn't help but notice he also talks about Exxon and climate change while there is an ad on the 3rd page of the article from Exxon themselves. Nothing is out of bounds in Bizarro world.

[kittenpants]

23. okay...

b]THANKS!