ok folks, tin foil hat time...

looks like the downing street memo scared the bushco/neo-cons enough that they un-leashed some kind of disinformation campaign to knock it off the corp news radar screen and its worked...

story breaks when john conyers and 90 dems sign letter to president asking him to answer the contents, then...

(ppl are refering to this as op 5-11)small plane flies into restricted air-space...capitol alerted, but bush wasn't even told till after "event", hmm...maybe because there was no danger.

next day a questionable story about a grenade being thrown at the president emerges...turns out there was no grenade and no danger...

newsweek becomes a target for a story related to US war crimes @ gitmo...and rumors say newsweek was going to do a story on the downing street memo, if that is true then this a pre-emptive attack against that report...

this is the story, an anonymous high-govt offical repudiated himself on the third round of fact checks...kind of like a planted story?

CBS plans story on missing weapons cache and bush's AWOL status, planted memos cast doubt on dan rather...CBS cancels story on weapons cache...NY times drops story about bush's listening device during the debates...see the pattern?

so anyhow...it now seems that newsweek is being scapgoated for the riots that are going on in afghanistan, even if the bush admin is only questioning one element of the story, not the other dozens of allegations...cast doubt on the messenger, see the pattern...well if that's the case how does scotty mclelland explain this from a govt website 5 days ago that says the riots are not tied to the newsweek story...

so, if in fact gen myers dismissed this story 5 days ago...why are we talking about it now?

because its serving a multi-tude of purposes...

keeping the downing street memo off the front pages
discrediting the so called "librul" media
burying and discrediting the war crimes @ gitmo report
pre-empting any story about the downing street memo, especially newsweeks

read...

Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says

Army investigating allegations of mishandling at Guantanamo Bay facility

Washington â?? The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Air Force General Richard Myers told reporters at the Pentagon May 12 that he has been told that the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, rioting was related more to the ongoing political reconciliation process in Afghanistan than anything else.
XTC Reviewed by XTC on . NewsWeek Story scapegoat for the Bush Memo ok folks, tin foil hat time... looks like the downing street memo scared the bushco/neo-cons enough that they un-leashed some kind of disinformation campaign to knock it off the corp news radar screen and its worked... story breaks when john conyers and 90 dems sign letter to president asking him to answer the contents, then... (ppl are refering to this as op 5-11)small plane flies into restricted air-space...capitol alerted, but bush wasn't even told till after "event", hmm...maybe Rating: 5