Maybe, who knows?

CNN reported on Thursday that

Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002.

The timing of the memo was well before the president brought the issue to Congress for approval. ...

British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity....

Now, obviously, this is old news to most of us, in fact the full text of both memo and letter can be read here in a post nearly a week old.

The point, though, is that it's new news to readers (and, I assume, viewers) of CNN. The mainstream media had been all but silent on what several folks have called the "smoking gun" memo despite its unquestionable newsworthiness. CNN as much as admits its extended silence by acknowledging the letter was sent last week.

So what's important here is that maybe - just maybe, mind you, but maybe - the story of the memo will finally gain some mainstream traction and get at least a small part of the coverage it deserves. With a majority of the public in a recent poll already saying the war in Iraq was "not worth it," maybe - again, just maybe - some of the supine media will find a trace (which is all I ask right now) of a backbone.