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Sat Jun 18, 2005 at 2:37 pm PDT • Views: 852

The Downing Street memos: fake but accurate.

The eight memos — all labeled “secret” or “confidential” — were first obtained by British reporter Michael Smith, who has written about them in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.

Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals.

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