Billmon: Going Down on the Downing Street Memo

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I can't say what's worse about the corporate press's treatment of this story -- the way they've tried to ignore it, or the reason that's often given for ignoring it: That it ain't news.

As Dana Milbank (and he's one of the good ones) suggests in today's Washington Post:

In part, the memo never gained traction here because, unlike in Britain, it wasn't election season, and the war is not as unpopular here. In part, it's also because the notion that Bush was intent on military action in Iraq had been widely reported here before, in accounts from Paul O'Neill and Bob Woodward, among others.