From the New York Times: Britain Admits That Much of Its Report on Iraq Came From Magazines.
The British government admitted today that large sections of its most recent report on Iraq, praised by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell as “a fine paper” in his speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, had been lifted from magazines and academic journals.
But while acknowledging that the 19-page report was indeed a “pull-together of a variety of sources,” a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair defended it as “solid” and “accurate.” …
But critics of the government said that not only did the document appear to have been largely cut and pasted together, but also that the articles it relied on were based on information that is, by now, obsolete.
The report’s title, incidentally, is “Iraq—Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation.” Replace “Iraq” with “Britain” and you’ve just about summed up the matter.
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Hey, no worries. I heard Colin Powell on “Meet the Press” last night, and those magazines are all reputed, respected publications, so everything is just dandy. You should stop worrying about ethics and go polish your Smart Bombs.
I don’t think this is the appropriate forum to discuss when I “polish my Smart Bombs.”
Not to get all Marie Claire on your ass, but I believe I said *smart* bombs…