A friend emailed me this abcnews.com story this morning. It was on their site on Friday the 14th;
“Senator Wants Fake Iraq Documents Probed”
Buy now it’s gone, and not to be found on any other news site.
The story’s about
I have the story in my email, but I’m hesitant to post any more because of copyright concerns.
I can forward it, I guess.
Has anyone seen this story?
An article on MSN.com mentioned the forged documents. Apparently, Blix’s most recent report said that most of the “evidence” Bush has given him regarding Iraq’s weapons program is fake. Unfortunately, the article didn’t go into detail, (it was just a summary of Blix’s report, and gave only one sentence to the forgery aspect), because I would love to know what, specifically, was wrong with the documents (Photoshopped pictures? “Witness reports” that don’t square with checkable facts?)
I’m dismayed at how little attention this has received in the US media, but I’ll bet that our european Dopers can tell us alot more about it.
If you get stuck finding a news story, search http://news.google.com - it’s outstandingly good.
Often if a story is updated or changed, or if legal action is suddenly pending, it can get retracted and deleted pretty quickly.
I also have noticed slightlier edgier, “controversial” stories disappearing from certain news sites. Again, you can usually find other versions on Google.
I had a very similar experience recently.
I really need to learn how to google effectively.
Thanks, folks. 
So, what about the story? Another thread? It’s pretty important if someone’s manipulating, or trying to manipulate, the president. Or if he’ doing it to us. Check out AZCowboy’s “experience” link, above.
Has Bush had a comment about the fabricated “evidence” yet?
If you want to discuss whether the stuff was fabricated, IMO you’d get better responses with a new GD thread and a new title.
It was referenced in this Washington Post edit column:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27787-2003Mar14.html
You know, I think there was something shady and underhanded about the whole thing, but I’m just too tired and lazy to argue about it. The US is going to invade anyway. Don’t need no freakin’ excuses.
Made it into Newsweek too:
Reagarding who may have made the documents, CNN reports that:
"Most rule out the United States, Great Britain or Israel because they said those countries’ intelligence services would have been able to make much more convincing forgeries if they had chosen to do so. "
How reassuring!
It’s possible that the CIA received bad information, which they then parrotted to the pres.
So our intelligence services are either dishonest and duplicious, or lazy and incompetent. How reassuring 