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By: The Strata-Sphere » Blog Archive » Is Deep Throat II Hadley?

The Strata-Sphere » Blog Archive » Is Deep Throat II Hadley? — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:28:09 +0000

[...] Mac Ranger pointed out a glaring problem with the Sunday Times article – it was written by serial forger Micheal Smith. We were on of the early blogs that pointed out the insanity of the Downing Street Forgeries which caught Michael Smith making up ridiculous excuses for the forgery efforts – including the question of why type these memos on a ancient typewriter that is hard to find, age the documents through a series of copier cycles, all to hide the source when all that required was re-typing them into anyone’s MS Word to lose all source forensics? [...]

By: Think Progress » Right-Wing Downing Street Rumor Discredited

Think Progress » Right-Wing Downing Street Rumor Discredited — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:40:42 +0000

[...] The rumor is repeated on right-wing blogs here, here, here, here and here. [...]

By: The Art of the Blog

The Art of the Blog — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:36:44 +0000

The Downing Street Memo

I’ll reserve judgment on this for now as there aren’t enough facts to suit me. Take a look for yourself at the various posts which question the authority of the Downing Street Memo: Captain’s Quarters Strata-Sphere Powerline LGF – Little…

By: Macmind - Conservative Commentary and Common Sense

Macmind - Conservative Commentary and Common Sense — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:29:51 +0000

http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2005/06/mr-smith-is-t

Seems there is a blogger on a site called, “Think Progress”, who claims to have called C-BS and got a absolute confirmation that the two Michaels are not the same:

“It took me a grand total of one phone call to CBS to see if this rumor was true. …

[this may be a better link - http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2005/06/mr-smith-is-that-you-update-response.html, AJStrata 6/20/05]

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:38:12 +0000

Seixon, I did notice the one document was not in a PDF. I have to admit I was not all that interested in the memos since they state one persons opinion during a time of great debate. But if you are correct, then is even something more to be learned here. I be checking your site ASAP.

By: Seixon

Seixon — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:29:51 +0000

I think there is something everyone is missing here.
When he talked about re-typing and destroying copies back in September, he is talking about the 6 previous documents which he unveiled back in September. He did not reveal anything about the DSM at the time. Why? I think that he didn’t have the DSM at that point in time. I think he got them after the US election.

There are two exclusive sets of documents here. One is the package of 6 documents he wrote stories on in September 2004 (Daily Telegraph, September 18). These documents have been quoted by the Butler Commission, and are most likely authentic, even though I only found evidence of two of them being quoted or referenced in the Butler Commission Report.

The second set of documents is the DSM itself, and the Briefing Paper. These two documents have no typewriter-written PDFs, like the previous six. Why is that?

Is it perhaps because he didn’t get the DSM and Briefing Paper until later?

I think it is.

Read more at my blog:
http://www.seixon.com

By: Skid

Skid — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:22:34 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1510258,00.html

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:25:44 +0000

Skid, Thanks for stopping by. I think I made clear the memos are unimpressive since they reflect the debates at the time and nothing more. I am simply trying to unravel the reporter’s statements, which make no sense. But, thankfully, we live in a free and open country where we can have our own opinions and ask questions.

By: Skid

Skid — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:17:07 +0000

Grasp for whatever straws you can fools!

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:56:38 +0000

Bryan, thanks for stopping by. I had considered that for a moment, and then realized this guy works for a top line news company which has all sorts of technology for capturing information and images. I also have little doubt this is not a scan of typewritten pages, even on low resolution. Can I prove it? Nope. But I go back to Mr. Smith’s own claim for his motivation: he did not want any evidence traceable back to his source. Well, transcribing them into a computer has no trace back to his source. So Mr. Smith needs to come up with a much better alibi than that. And he can answer the question as to why he had to copy the typewritten pages (look at the ‘fuzziness’ in the letters on all the scans to realize that is an artifact of photocopying – not scanning) before scanning them in.

Thanks for your time and inputs.

By: Bryan C

Bryan C — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:26:35 +0000

Hmm. They may have been re-copied as you suggest, but it’s also possible that someone may have just scanned them poorly. You can get similar results by scanning a printed page in low-resolution black-white (not grayscale) mode. Or by using an older fax machine that has a scanning/copying function.

Not that that makes sense either. But it is possible.

By: The Right Place

The Right Place — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:45:05 +0000

The Downing Street Memo Follies

You’ve just got to LOVE the Moonbats who have taken over the Democrat Party!…

First, a group of partisan nut-jobs bow to pressure from their extremist tin-foil headgear base and decide to hold make-pretend impeachment hearings in the basement of …

By: Decision '08

Decision '08 — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:37:39 +0000

The Downing Street Memos Redux: Are They Real?

AJ Strata and Captain Ed have been blogging pretty heavily on a confession by reporter Michael Smith, who first obtained the Downing Street Memos, that they aren’t originals (he destroyed the originals, he said, to protect the source). I’ll refer you…

By: The Politburo Diktat

The Politburo Diktat — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:25:51 +0000

Questions on Downing Street Memos

Apparently the reporter re-typed the memos and then destroyed them. Or maybe he destroyed them first and then re-typed them from memory. AJ at the Strata-Sphere is all over this: Why would one destroy the originals? You could copy them so as to hide in…