Now the Observer has posted an apparent leak from a NSA informant that pretty much states that America is spying on UN delegates to get information on how they are planning to vote on Iraq. It has already been noticed that the memo has British spelling and date format, which leads to the belief that it was faked. The Observer has come back and had defended it, saying that all of the changes were done to "maintain conformity" on the website.

I say liars. Now I'm not one to believe that the US could never spy on something like this, but I believe that this is not proof. I think it's a fake, and a poor fake at that.

First, I still want to point to all of the obvious British spelling/date format. It seems to me to be a little ridiculous that they would post something as groundbreaking as that, and change spelling for such a stupid reason as conformity. There wasn't even a disclaimer or reference to it, until someone noticed it. Seems a bit too easy.

Second, after reading the memo I think of a line from Minority Report, when Colin Farrell was at the scene where Tom Cruise was framed for murder. He said, "It's an orgy of evidence." Referring to the fact that the evidence was so numerous and obvious that it was too good to be true. I tend to think the same thing about the memo. It is too guilty and too ambiguous at the same time. A dangerous combination.