Antsy Editors, take 2

[oxbow]

OK, a quick recap of my correpondence with an editor at the LA Times. I received this letter in response to an email I sent asking them to followup on the Downing St. Memo and Rep. Conyers' letter to *:

Dear SIr or Madam:
Whoever told you to send this message apparently didn't bother to find out that the Los Angeles Times has already written the first story on the British memo to appear in any major American newspaper -- and we did it two days ago.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-memogate12may12,1,7966962.story
Best wishes
xxxx xxxxxx


This was my reply:

Dear Mr xxxxxx,

Thank you for responding to my email. I was aware of the LA times article on the Downing street memo, and appreciate your paper's initiative in covering this important story. My questions are more about why this memo contradicts the findings of the presidential commission and others' investigations into Iraq Intelligence failures. Specifically, why did those panels find no evidence of politicization or manipulation of the information used in the runup for war, when the UK memo suggests that this was precisely what happenned? In short, I am asking for more investigative journalism, for the next level of inquiry on this story. I understand that this can be difficult, given the degree of secrecy in government today, but as a leading member of the free press, I thought I would ask your establishment anyway.

As I wrote before, perhaps one of the Congressmen who signed that letter asking President Bush for answers would be willing to shed some more light on what this memo means for our nation, and why we are in Iraq at the moment. At the least, they could offer a valuable opinion piece for your editorial page.

Thank you again for your timely response.

Sincerely,
yyyy yyyyyy

And today I got this email from Mr. xxxxxx

Thank you for your very kind response. We're pursuing these questions further.
xxxx xxxxxx

And I am very hopeful that he means it when he says that. Proof positive that being nice and reasonable can still get results! Keep an eye on the LA Times to lead the way on this story y'all!!

[dave502d]

1. Good work oxbow,It won't take long to get over a 1000 post.Thank you n/t