The Memo That Won't Be Ignored, and Pink Floyd Returns
It took the U.S. media a month or more to pick up on the now-famous Downing Street Memo (DSM), but it won't die in the blogosphere. No fewer than six of today's top links refer to the memo, in which U.S. and British leaders had schemed to "fix the intelligence" about Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein militarily and had to find legal methods to justify the invasion.
The memo keeps coming back because both President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair poo-poohed it last week during their joint appearance in the U.S. But the UK's Sunday Times' continued coverage of yet another memo/briefing is today's top link, and the DSM is also discussed in Sunday's The Washington Post, and at a new Downing Street Memo web site dedicated solely to its exposure. The Tattered Coat blog wonders why liberal bloggers aren't more involved in the campaign, and blogger Ken Sain speculates the Brits may be leaking the memos on purpose.
And on the enteraining side of life, it's movies and music: Mrs. Smith is today's top personality, the name in the title of Brad Pitt's and Angelina Jolie's latest flick, Mrs. and Mrs. Smith. And music fans are ga-ga over the July 2 reunion of Pink Floyd in London...with bassist Roger Waters. Notes one LiveJournal bloggers: "Hell continues to freeze."
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 13, 2005 07:50 AM
