From The Raw Story.com:
For Immediate Release:
THURSDAY, JUNE 16
CONYERS TO HOLD DEMOCRATIC HEARING ON DOWNING STREET MEMO AND LEAD UP TO IRAQ WAR
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Thursday June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of House Judiciary Committee, and other Democratic Members will hold a Democratic hearing to hear testimony concerning the Downing Street Minutes and the efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence.
On May 1, 2005 a Sunday London Times article disclosed the details of a classified memo, also known as the Downing Street Minutes, recounting the minutes of a July 2002 meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair that describes an American President already committed to going to war in the summer of 2002, despite contrary assertions to the public and the Congress. The minutes also describe apparent efforts by the Administration to manipulate intelligence data to justify the war. The June 16th hearing will attempt to answer the serious constitutional questions raised by these revelations and will further investigate the Administration's actions in the lead up to war with new documents that further corroborate the Downing Street memo.
Directly following the hearing, Rep. Conyers, Members of Congress, and concerned citizens plan to hand deliver to the White House the petition and signatures of over a half million Americans that have joined Rep. Conyers in demanding that President Bush answer questions about his secret plan for the Iraq war.
WHAT: Democratic hearing on Downing Street Minutes and Pre-war intelligence
WHEN: Thursday, June 16, 2005, TIME TBD
WHERE: LOCATION TBD
WITNESSES: Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and WMD Expert Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst who prepared regular Presidential briefings during the Reagan administration Cindy Sheehan, mother of fallen American soldier John Bonifaz, renowned constitutional lawyer
From Lizzy - Now we're getting somewhere!!!
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6 comments:
About time. They are going to go down. Did you hear Bush and Blair saying they had nothing to do with it? Please. We are not that stupid. How stupid do these two think their citizens are?
John Conyers is the greatest. :)
Samantha, WE are not stupid, but the general public? I'm not so sure.
I think the problem with the general public is escapism rather than stupidity. I think they are just so preoccupied with their favorite tvs shows and hobbies and interpersonal relationships and diversions that are their mental energy is used up in that. There's nothing left for evaluating the big picture.
I've been spending more time on that sort of thing lately myself, but then I already knew how evil these people are. If I had been lving this way the whole time, I would be clueless too.
Sheryl, I think you've hit the nail on the head, and it makes me very sad. With a new scandal coming out every other day from Bush & Co, what is it going to take to snap people out of their escapism mentality?
I'd concur with that (and I'm not saying it to fill a comment spot). Its true alot of folk have an escapist mentality - just to happy to be spoon fed half truths and down 'right' lies.
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