Leaked British memo gets its sea legs

This is good to see-- Knight-Ridder has picked up the story about the memo that suggests a decision by the administration to manipulate intelligence on Iraq.

"A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.

The visit took place while the Bush administration was still declaring to the American public that no decision had been made to go to war."

Even without the memo, it had pretty much been established that we were lied to over and over about the reasons for going into Iraq. The public at large doesn't seem to care too much. But there's no excuse for this story being under-reported in the media. Because it's actually news.