USA Today (could) not obtain the (Downing Street) memo or a copy of it?

[Coexist]

"USA TODAY chose not to publish anything about the memo before today for several reasons, says Jim Cox, the newspaper's senior assignment editor for foreign news. “We could not obtain the memo or a copy of it from a reliable source,” Cox says. “There was no explicit confirmation of its authenticity from (Blair's office). And it was disclosed four days before the British elections, raising concerns about the timing.”
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050608/a_memo08.art.htm

thanks to mediabistro.com for the headsup on this idiocy.