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To: cavan who wrote (36901)	6/19/2005 4:56:21 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	of 90947

The BS Memo en.wikipedia.org 1. It's from an "undisclosed source". Hmmm...... 2. It's from an otherwise unknown middle level bureaucrat in a foreign gov't that had never previously been heard of. 3. It cites a totally unknown source named "C" as its source. Why not "007"? We know who he is. 4. "Military action was now seen as inevitable." By whom? 5. "But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." By whom? 6. "The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record." Oh. Well. The UN had repeatedly shown itself unwilling to enforce its own resolutions. This DOES seen reasonable. The Rathergate memo looks absolutely rock solid in comparison. There are those on the Dem side that think they can impeach both Bush and Cheney based on this. If they can impeach on such flimsy and questionable evidence, no future President will ever finish a term. Frankly, a highly secret memo critical of the British government just surfacing, then getting published in the London Times is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. THe UK has the Official Secrets Act; it is NOT the United States with essentially unlimited freedom of the press. Disclosing information the British gov;t considers secret there will almost certainly result in prison, Official Secrets Act UK act of Parliament 1989, prohibiting the disclosure of confidential material from government sources by employees; it remains an absolute offence for a member or former member of the security and intelligence services (or those working closely with them) to disclose information about their work. There is no public-interest defence, and disclosure of information already in the public domain is still a crime. Journalists who repeat disclosures may also be prosecuted. tiscali.co.uk Frankly, until proven otherwise, it is a fake. It is interesting to note that Watergate would never have seen the light of day in Britain. Woodward and Bernstein would have been writing on the walls of their cells.

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