How leaked documents questioning war emerged from 'Britain's Deep Throat'

[kentuck]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1669292,00.html

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It started with a phone call and has now swept across America: Michael Smith tells the tale of his ‘Downing Street memo’ scoop



It began with a phone call from a friend nearly 10 months ago — somebody well-placed who had given me a few stories before. But he wasn’t really a journalistic source, though he has now been dubbed “the British Deep Throat” by some of the US press.
He was just a friend. So I had no great expectations of the meeting we arranged in a quiet West End bar. I was just expecting a convivial drink, with the usual exchange of gossip, the catching-up on how our lives were going.



Almost immediately it was clear that this time it would be something more. The place was empty, but my friend chose the most secluded spot he could find. He was clearly nervous.

He wasn’t sure if I’d be interested in what he had, he said. It was about the run-up to the war. “All the Butler stuff,” he said, referring to Lord Butler, who had reported on the failures of intelligence over Iraq.

[dave29]

1. wow

this is a must read

[Catrina]

2. He says it was US bloggers

who finally got the story out ~ that he could not get the US press interested. And he mentions Raw Story

Last week one US blogger, Larisa Alexandrovna of RawStory.com, unearthed more unsettling evidence. It was an overlooked interview with Lieutenant-General T Michael Moseley, the allied air commander in Iraq, in which he appears to admit that the “spikes of activity” were part of a covert air war.

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The bloggers may have found their own smoking gun.

He is such a professional, not taking the credit himself, but giving it to the bloggers, and 'ordinary US citizens who did the work our disgraceful press refused to do.

[Cleita]

3. Thanks for posting this.

It looks like the bloggers are the news of the future. The MSM are nothing more than tabloid propaganda anymore.