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November 18, 2003

Legitimacy of Leaked DoD Memo Confirmed.

On Sunday I was telling a friend about the leaked DoD memo. He wasn’t familiar with it, and doubted that it was really the work of the government, since the major media have not reported on it yet and he’d heard nothing about it.

This report today leaves no doubt that the leaked memo is in fact the work of the Pentagon.

WASHINGTON – Senate Intelligence Committee leaders plan to ask the Justice Department to investigate who leaked a top-secret Pentagon memo sent to the committee.

The Oct. 27 memo from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith provided details of intelligence linking Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network and the toppled Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. Details of the memo were published in the Nov. 24 issue of The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine.

Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said he expected to ask the Justice Department and the Pentagon to determine if the leak constituted a crime. If it did, a criminal investigation should be conducted, he said.

“That’s highly classified material and an egregious leak of classified material,” he told reporters.

What’s astonishing is that this memo is not yet widely known to the public. It has yet to appear on the front page of my local paper, the LA TIMES.

It debunks most of what the left has been saying about Iraq for months. Major liberal media is increasingly unabashed about its bizarre bias against the truth, against the major stories of the day, in support of positions which are supported by neither.

It’s beginning to be indistinguishable from the state-controlled media of communist countries of the past.

How can the liberal media refuse to report such a major story?