Iraq Study Group Mulled Year-Old Spam

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Over at the National Review‘s blog, The Corner, Cliff May apologizes for posting a year-old anonyous forwarded email as news. May, let’s note, was an adviser to the James Baker-led Iraq Study Group.

In his defense, May says it was shared with him by another adviser to the ISG, a U.S. ambassador. All the ISG experts, May explains, “[are] on a list-serve where we circulate what we view as significant articles and argue over them.” May says the ambassador had forwarded the year-old anonymous e-mail to the list.

That’s right. An expert advising the ISG shared a year-old anonymous chain e-mail with the group. And the group apparently argued over it.

Anyone feel like forwarding the conversation thread that followed that one? Might be instructive.

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