I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
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According to a recent leaked memo marked Secret U. K. Eyes Only ... Given that the government has previously and firmly indicated that setting a date for possible withdrawal or drawing down could endanger our troops on the ground in Iraq, and given that this allegedly leaked memo speculates on possible dates for such action, the government should urgently clarify the situation to ensure that it is understood that our troops will remain in Iraq until our tasks there are completed.
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
Folks at Treasury believe that some folks will go ahead and pay it (this year) anyway, ... Didn't get the memo, I guess, but that's the answer.
What is surprising, ... how little attention the memo has received in some of the most important news media in the United States despite its being an official document that contradicts the North American version of the beginning of the war.
When you add physical requirements to jobs that don't need them, you begin to weed out a whole pool of people such as the elderly, the obese, people with pre-existing medical conditions. I think this memo steps over the line of what's legal.
But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research,
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
I want him to have it (the memo) because I assume there will be some question on what it says to the effect Is the president above the law, ... It will be raised.
I think it was not an even-handed memo, ... As I look at the intelligence community, it should not 'support' or 'oppose' an administration. It should be professional, factual and give the best possible analysis, regardless of where the chips may fall.
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. ... lapdog news media.
The so-called Downing Street memo from July 2002 says intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy of removing Saddam through military action, ... Is this an accurate reflection of what happened.
The Justice Department came to believe that cooperation from corporations wasn't real cooperation. And so the Department, in the Thompson memo, demanded 'authentic' cooperation from corporations. And now it's getting it.
If this memo is what it looks like, I'm afraid that the folks at Arthur Andersen could be on the other end of an indictment before this is over,
As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day.
They're sort of pulling a memo here and a memo there. The most powerful argument is that, at a minimum, they (Justice Department officials) have known for two years and four months that Internet Explorer is a part of Windows 95.