I lend Tony Blair a Helping Hand

Dear Tony,

I found a product that may assist your intelligence services in the future. No, it's not a new decoder ring, or even an invisible ink pen. It's a product that may save you from future embarrassment and/or censure.

The product is available through U.S. company iParadigms LLC, and could save you billions of pounds, and many lives.

What I offer you today is a digital plagiarism detection service. Given your intelligence services embarrassing exposure by Dr. Glen Rangwala concerning copying and pasting information off the public internet as a pretext to the Iraq War, you may even save thousands of lives in the process.

I think we can agree that 10 Downing could use a little help to insure that you are getting the best and latest in intelligence information. Using a ten year old American doctoral student's dissertation is very bad politics, and it hands your critics a formidable weapon. That is never much fun.

It isn't known that if without the dossier, whether or not the U.S. could have gained public support for the war. Your own citizens are very much opposed to the whole affair I'm told.

Given real intelligence work, you might not be in the politically calamitous situation in which you find yourself.

I'm sending similar dispatches to the MI6, Sec. Powell, U.S. President Bush(his will be a pop-up book) Sec. Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Sec. Paul Wolfowitz.

Very Truly Yours,


Todd

(Yes, I know the entry is goofy, but the bit about digital plagiarism detection is worth a pop over to Editor & Publisher to have a look. I expect to see this utilized more widely, and if it scales well, come with a lower cost to the user)