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Live Thread: John Conyers' Downing Street Memo Circus, C-SPAN 3, 2:30 p.m. EDT 6/16/05
C-SPAN ^ | Thursday, June 16, 2005

Posted on 06/16/2005 11:28:48 AM PDT by kristinn

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Downing Street Minutes and Pre-War Intelligence
U.S. House of Representatives, Conyers, J. (D-MI)
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 187209 - 06/16/2005 - 2:00 - ns

Conyers, John Jr., U.S. Representative, D-MI
Bonifaz, John C., Founder, National Voting Rights Institute
Wilson, Joseph, Deputy Chief of Mission (1988-91), Iraq
McGovern, Ray, Member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Sheehan, Cindy, Mother

Rep. John Conyers, Jr., and other Democrats hold a public meeting concerning the "Downing Street Memo" and pre-war intelligence on Iraq.
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 with his advisers that depicted 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 described apparent efforts by Bush administration officials to manipulate intelligence data in order to justify the war to the international community.

The hearing is scheduled to be rerun on C-SPAN 2 at 8 p.m. EDT.

Follow this link to get a livestream of C-SPAN 3.


TOPICS: Announcements; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; britishmemo; conyers; downingstreetmemo; livethread
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To: tiredoflaundry

Why is it that all of these people are sleazy whimps?

Oh, impeachment! Fun, fun!


121 posted on 06/16/2005 12:10:40 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: OXENinFLA; Mo1; kristinn; ken5050

Please read this..it's long but way worth it

(snip)In order to fully understand CCR's publicly stated reasons for advocating for prisoners at Guantanamo, which center on the concept of "civil rights," and to understand its lesser known but much more important reasons for wanting interrogations there halted, it is necessary to briefly examine the history of the CCR and its leadership, the types of clients it advocates for and its political affiliations. And a thorough examination of CCR's current president, Michael Ratner, who is the driving force behind the Guantanamo shut-down effort, is absolutely vital to understanding the position that CCR takes today regarding the rights of prisoners captured in the War on Terror.

Center for Constitutional Rights founded by Communists and anti-U.S. radicals

The CCR was founded in 1966 by attorneys Morton Stavis, William Kunstler, Ben Smith and Arthur Kinoy

http://antiprotester.blogspot.com/2005/06/michael-ratner-and-ccr-fighting.html


122 posted on 06/16/2005 12:10:54 PM PDT by hipaatwo (When you're in trouble you want all your friends around you...preferably armed!)
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To: ken5050

I have no idea. But she reminds me of Carolyn McCarthy who used her husband's was killed on the Long Island Railroad and she used his death for political purposes and to run for Congress.


123 posted on 06/16/2005 12:10:57 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: tiredoflaundry

during Reagan, so anything he says is so relevant.

Do I have to note my sarcasm?


124 posted on 06/16/2005 12:11:53 PM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: Howlin

Check out this little pencil neck geek that is up now, Boston based civil rights lawyer, suprise! They are so serious about this! Where are their tinfoil hats?


125 posted on 06/16/2005 12:11:57 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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To: kristinn; cyncooper; okie01; Fedora
Wilson says he plays on the 'American team,' not any party. He says it is not true his wife recommended him for the Niger trip. Says the CIA still denies his wife suggested him for the trip. So far, Wilson is spending his time defending himself.

No, Joe Wilson plays on the French team.

They dragged him out again? He still associating with this McGovern guy?

126 posted on 06/16/2005 12:12:04 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: kristinn
Cindy Sheehan, disgraces her son's honorable service. Gold Star Families for Peace, of which she is president, is an off-shoot of Military Families Speak Out

The storied history of the Gold Star Mothers is also being sullied by her. I'm sorry for her loss but she's a lost case.

127 posted on 06/16/2005 12:12:18 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: Bahbah
John Bonifaz is calling for an independent investigation calling for the Impeachment of the President, Vice President and all Official Officers of The United States



ROLLING EYES
128 posted on 06/16/2005 12:12:35 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: eyespysomething

ahhhhh


129 posted on 06/16/2005 12:12:36 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I hate Hurricane Season!)
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To: defconw

Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush - a new book by John Bonifaz

In February and March 2003, John Bonifaz served as lead counsel for a coalition of US soldiers, their parents, and Members of Congress in a
federal lawsuit challenging the authority of President Bush to launch a war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war. Needless to say, the suit failed to prevent the invasion and occupation but Bonifaz's arguments about the constitutional violations inherent in Bush foreign policy are still politically potent.

Bonifaz lays out his case in a new release from Nation Books, Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush. "President Bill Clinton was
ultimately censured over alleged charges of perjury and obstruction of justice," says Bonifaz. "But no one died as a result of the Monica Lewinsky
affair. President George W. Bush's offenses to the Constitution are far more serious and have resulted in the deaths of thousands. It is time for Congress to investigate whether the president's offenses constitute high crimes worthy of impeachment. To protect and uphold the Constitution, that
process should begin."



***I don't remember Bill Clinton being censured, do you?


130 posted on 06/16/2005 12:13:21 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: hipaatwo

Thanks


131 posted on 06/16/2005 12:13:44 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: areafiftyone

Okay--the impeachment has been called for by this idiot--

It is up to the Congresscritters to come out NOW, and say that the impeachment talk will stop NOW...


132 posted on 06/16/2005 12:13:47 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: Guht

9/11 has nothing to do with Iraq.

Prove it. ;-)


133 posted on 06/16/2005 12:14:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... The War on Terrorism is the ultimate 'faith-based' initiative.)
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To: Howlin

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/


134 posted on 06/16/2005 12:14:16 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Mo1
John Bonifaz is calling for an independent investigation calling for the Impeachment of the President, Vice President and all Official Officers of The United States

BWAAAA HAAA HAAAA! And we are supposed to listen to this LOSER? The White House (if they are watching) must be laughing like crazy!

135 posted on 06/16/2005 12:15:00 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: Howlin
"Fixing" does NOT mean the same thing in the United States as it does in England!

I took it to mean "lining up" or "arranging" or "organizing." It does not mean making things up.

136 posted on 06/16/2005 12:15:24 PM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: Howlin

No Billy boy skated!


137 posted on 06/16/2005 12:15:59 PM PDT by defconw (GEORGE ALLEN IN 08)
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To: Howlin

I hit your link and got a blank screen---


138 posted on 06/16/2005 12:16:05 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: areafiftyone

These People are a COMPLETE JOKE!!!

I need to head out .. please ping me if they say anything intellegent *L*


139 posted on 06/16/2005 12:16:16 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1

Your welcome. As soon as I saw Kuntzlers name I knew it was bad news.


140 posted on 06/16/2005 12:16:20 PM PDT by hipaatwo (When you're in trouble you want all your friends around you...preferably armed!)
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