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Full Coverage: The Downing Street Memo
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 10:50 pm
Article: The Scoop Editor
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Full Coverage: The Downing Street Memo (1 May - 9 June
2005)
David Swanson: Breakthrough - Washington
Post & NYT On Bush & Blair's Comments - The corporate
media today began its coverage of the Downing Street
Minutes, moved to do so by a visit to Washington by Prime
Minister Tony Blair, and by the pressure all of us have
applied. See... David
Swanson: Bush, Blair, and Bumiller
MORE:
Transcript - Another
Downing St Memo – Wrongfooting Saddam
Fox
News, Blair And Bush All Talk Downing Street Memo -
HUME: When we come back with our panel, the memo that the
left says the U.S. media won't talk about it. Well, we'll
talk about it, next. See... David
Swanson: Downing Street Memo In FoxSpeak
MORE:
Buzzflash - Buzzflash:
Bushevik Mafia and the Cowering Media
White House - Bush
Blair Press Conference At White House 08 June
2005 |
EARLIER:GOP
Chairman At A Loss Over Downing Street
Minutes Buzzflash - Buzzflash:
The War to Deceive America Into War David
Swanson - David
Swanson: Teach-In on War Demands Truth
Michel
Chossudovsky Assembles Papers On Intelligence Fix -
Phony intelligence was created and fed into the news chain
with a view to justifying the invasion of Iraq. The
balance-sheet of lies and fabricated intelligence presented
in this selection of articles provides detailed and
overwhelming evidence. See... Fabricating
Intelligence as Justification for War
MORE:
Between The Lines - Greg
Palast IV: Fixed Intelligence to Justify Iraq"…The
Intelligence And Facts Were Being Fixed Around The
Policy." - Journalists typically condemn attempts to
force their colleagues to disclose anonymous sources, saying
that subpoenaing reporters will discourage efforts to expose
government wrongdoing. But such warnings seem like mere
self-congratulation when clear evidence of wrongdoing
emerges, with no anonymous sources required-- and major news
outlets virtually ignore it. See... Fair.Org:
Smoking Gun Memo?
EARLIER:
William
Rivers Pitt - Criminals
Belong in Prison Guest Opinion - Articles
Of Impeachment For President G.W. Bush
Harvey Wasserman - Four
Bloody Lies Of War, Havana To Baghdad Greg
Palast - Impeachment
Time - Facts Were Fixed Ray McGovern -
Ray
McGovern: Proof Bush Fixed The FactsRep.
John Conyers -
Creating Reasons to Go to War
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