{"id":510,"date":"2005-05-31T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:13:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:13:49","slug":"the-downing-street-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/31\/the-downing-street-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Downing Street Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downingstreetmemo.com\/memo.html\">The Downing Street Memo :: The text<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently this is being kept out of the mainstream media &#8211; and that in itself is disturbing. I wonder what the truth of all this is? It certainly does <em>not<\/em> look good, at least not for Bush &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/users\/amanda\/blog\/index.html\">Amanda<\/a> for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this is being kept out of the mainstream media &#8211; and that in itself is disturbing. I wonder what the truth of all this is? It certainly does not look good, at least not for Bush &#038; Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":245,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/27\/the-torture-memo\/","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":0},"title":"The torture memo","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"To quote: What should the President do when defending the country requires breaking the laws? Why, he should break the laws, which usually means instructing his subordinates to do so. He, and they, remain subject to punishment, and he remains subject to impeachment.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":866,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/04\/21\/holy-crap-its-spring-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":1},"title":"Holy Crap &#8211; It&#8217;s Spring&#8230; again?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"So, it snowed, then it rained for 4 days straight, and then BAM! Spring! I guess Mother Nature finally got the memo.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":826,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/12\/20\/peculiarities-of-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":2},"title":"Peculiarities of Australia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's spend some time talking about what's just a little bit different here in Australia compared with back in the U.S., shall we?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4930,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/20\/this-seems-oddly-familiar\/","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":3},"title":"This Seems Oddly Familiar","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Disturbing dystopian similarities.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":228,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/13\/power-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":4},"title":"Power Line","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 13, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Doing a bit of research today, I'm finding that professional \"blogs\" are becoming quite common - and widely noticed in the traditional media. 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