Comments on: White House does not dispute substance of Downing Street Memo

By: Mr.Murder

Mr.Murder — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:38:53 +0000

Downing Street may shed a bright shining light on the Niger forgeries.
Cheney’s daughter was director of near east affairs at the time so the Niger and Nigerian connections would fall under her auspices.

France and germany provided the subcontractors for those countries’ nuclear facilities and that it is why they confirmed the niger claims were lies.

The facilities didn’t run for full power the entire time this claim was being cited.

Kind of hard to get yellowcake when you don’t run… one facility closed down the other at 15% capacity…

Look close at the British leads(especially business) with any details involving African business at those locales and in any shared vetnrues with any Italian firms since that country became the mouthpiece for US-sourced disinformation.

Ledeen and Hitchens, along with Chalabi’s female horse whisperers Miller and Mylroi all seem to share some interesting observations on the timeline. They knew of things that lend their proximity to it. AEI seems to have shared contact with all of these media sopurces.

By: ck

ck — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 03:16:03 +0000

Stop referring to it as a “memo” – you’re just helping to trivialize it by glomming onto that little bit of verbal misdirection.

They were MINUTES – an actual transcription of what was actually said at an actual meeting. Which is hugely different from a “memo,” and is, in fact, only a step away from, oh, say… tape-recording your conversation.

By: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog

Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog — Tue, 24 May 2005 23:06:53 +0000

I don’t know whether you saw the “readers’ forum” post by the new public editor, Barney Calame? He said, more or less, that the Washington bureau chief simply didn’t see this as Times-worthy — at least, that’s how I read it — because they had nothing to add to the bare facts of the memo.

If they don’t bother to follow up, it’s hard to see how that could change for them.

The whole thing makes me look at their blueprint of credibility campaign related program activities, or whatever they’re calling it, with a somewhat more jaundiced eye.

– Dog, etc.

By: weldon berger

weldon berger — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:23:42 +0000

Joe, so far as we know none of the other “reporters” at the briefings have raised the question. A CNN reporter asked McClellan about it last week sometime — that’s where Eric got the “flat out wrong” quote — but it wasn’t at a briefing, and the NY Times quoted McClellan with respect to the letter COnyers and other House Dems sent to the White House, but nobody else has brought it up even tangentially.

What really, truly pisses me off is that neither the Times nor the Post White House correspondents, both of whose papers have now published fairly lengthy stories on the memo, bothered to follow up.

I start from a position of having no confidence in the press, but even to me this is frickin’ unbelievable.

By: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog

Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:06:20 +0000

When I read the transcript I noticed that you seem to have been the only reporter asking about the Blair minutes (“the Downing Street memo”).

Am I reading carefully enough? Are the others really not asking any questions about this?

– Dog, etc.