Will the US press report it also? Or will we have to depend on a foreign press to report the news in our own country?
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1657381,00.html<snip>
Members of the US Congress were this afternoon hearing evidence about two secret Downing St memos written before the invasion of Iraq which seem to imply that President Bush systematically misled the American people.
The first of the two memos were leaked to the Sunday Times in May, but the potential scandal was ignored by the mainstream US media.
The memos were however forced onto the political agenda by bloggers, who have refused to let the scandal die down. Today their efforts were due to bear fruit, when anti-war Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will hold an informal meeting to hear evidence on the top secret minutes as part of a hearing on intelligence issues before the Iraq war.
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The second memo, referred to as DSMII, was published this week, saying that British ministers were told that they had no choice but to find a way to make the war in Iraq legal. The publication of the second document provoked the sceptical US press to take notice, and the story appeared on the front page of the respected Washington Post.
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