A little bit more on Downing Street.
Over the week end when I got around to reading down to the end of the
articles I linked up in that last post and read through the ones it
slipped my mind to link. I ended up with a few more things I wanted to
point out. Primarily the existence of two moderately enetertaining Web
sites out there dedicated to the DSM (Downing Street Memo's) the Downing Street Memo and a website called After Downing street.org.
The whole
affair of Rep.Conyers holding a psuedo-hearing in a basement room, last
Thursday because the republican leadership will have no disscussion of
this whatsoever. That was a perfect Washington moment.
For the off-Washington moment (like off-Broadway) I have a metafilter
thread from last week that seems to indicate that at least initially
the trans-threshhold denizens of the right were prepared to attack the
memos with their familar the type-face jihad
There be a way out of this yet! | MetaFilter . Hey if it worked once...
More usefully: two articles that attempt to put this in some sort of
perspectives and assess what it means.
The New York Review of Books: The Secret Way to War , and
What the 'Downing Street' memos show | csmonitor.com
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