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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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I'm heading out around 3:30 for the D.C. Chapter's patriotic counter-demonstration of the after-hearing Downing Street Memo rally at Lafayette Park.

In the meantime, I'll try to provide some play by play while I'm getting ready to leave.

1 posted on 06/16/2005 11:28:48 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
Give 'em hell!



2 posted on 06/16/2005 11:30:15 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I hate Hurricane Season!)
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To: kristinn

Thanks for starting this thread.


3 posted on 06/16/2005 11:30:53 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: kristinn

Are they having it live in Motel 6?


4 posted on 06/16/2005 11:31:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: kristinn

Why is C-Span covering a private Hate Bush meeting?


5 posted on 06/16/2005 11:32:46 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: areafiftyone

English or Arabic?


6 posted on 06/16/2005 11:33:09 AM PDT by ncountylee
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To: kristinn

7 posted on 06/16/2005 11:33:12 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
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To: pabianice
Why is C-Span covering a private Hate Bush meeting

Because for weeks the DUmmies were e-mailing and calling CSPAN to cover it. They got soo tired of them calling that they finally agreed to do it on CSPAN3. I guess if you beg and whine enough you get what you want if you are a Dem.

8 posted on 06/16/2005 11:34:34 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: kristinn

OMG ... Joe Wilson is there talking about his Mint Tea Trip


9 posted on 06/16/2005 11:35:03 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: ncountylee

I guess they were sworn in on the Koran.


10 posted on 06/16/2005 11:35:07 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: pabianice

The ratings ... most moonbats can't hold a job (unless it's a government one or as part of some nut job institute) and have a lot of time to spare as they sit in their parent's basement doing du things like ... I'll leave it to your imagination.


11 posted on 06/16/2005 11:35:12 AM PDT by tarzantheapeman (The dems always love a good fake.)
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To: areafiftyone

Give my brain back. Exactly.


12 posted on 06/16/2005 11:35:39 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: tiredoflaundry

Wilson says his wife did not recommend him for the trip


13 posted on 06/16/2005 11:36:04 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: kristinn
Sheehan, Cindy

AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH

November 4, 2004

Dear George,

You don’t mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis.

George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey. It has been seven months since your ignorant and arrogant lack of planning for the peace murdered my oldest child. It has been two days since your dishonest campaign stole another election…but you all were way more subtle this time than in 2000, weren’t you? You hardly had to get the Supreme Court of the United States involved at all this week.

You feel so proud of yourself for betraying the country again, don’t you? You think you are very clever because you pulled the wool over the eyes of some of the people again. You think that you have some mandate from God…that you can “spend your political capital” any way that you want. George you don’t care or even realize that 56,000,000 plus citizens of this country voted against you and your agenda. Still, you are going to continue your ruthless work of being a divider and not a uniter. George, in 2000 when you stole that election and the Democrats gave up, I gave up too. I had the most ironic thought of my life then: "Oh well, how much damage can he do in four years?" Well, now I know how much you have damaged my family, this country, and this world. If you think I am going to allow you another four years to do even more damage, then you truly are mistaken. I will fight for a true vote count and if that fails, your impeachment. Also, the impeachment of your Vice President. The only thing is, I'm not politically savvy, and I don't have a Karl Rove to plan my strategy, but I do have a big mouth and a righteous cause, which still mean something in this country, I hope.

All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be “hard work” George. You really think you know what hard work is?

George, let me tell you what “hard work” really is.

Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-child go off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality. Hard work is worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because you don’t know if your child is safe.

Hard work is seeing your son’s murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you’re enjoying the last supper you’ll ever truly enjoy again.

Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son…your first born…your kind and gentle sweet baby.

Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big “baba” into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both.

But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying to digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family has fought for and died for, for generations, lied to you and betrayed your dear boy’s sense of honor and exploited his courage and exploited his loyalty to his buddies. Hard work is having your country abandon you after they killed your son. Hard work is coming to the realization that your son had his future robbed from him and that you have had your son's future and future grand-children stolen from you. Hard work is knowing that there are so many people in this world that have prospered handsomely from your son's death.

George, I must confess that I and my family worked very HARD to re-defeat you this time, but you refuse to stay defeated. Well, we are watching you very carefully. We are going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people into a disastrous war and for mis-using and abusing your power as Commander-in-Chief. We are going to scream until our last breath to bring the rest of our babies home from this quagmire of a war that you have gotten our country in to: before too many more families learn the true meaning of Hard Work. We know it is going to be an uphill battle, knowing how Republican Congress is, but thanks to you, we know the meaning of Hard Work and we’re not afraid of hard work at all.

The 56,000,000 plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda. Also, thanks to you and your careless domestic policies, I am unemployed, so this will be my full-time job. Being your political downfall will be the most noble accomplishment of my life and it will bring justice for my son and 1125 (so far) other brave Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis your lies have killed. By the way, George, how many more innocent Iraqis are your policies going to kill before you convince them that you are better than Saddam? How many more of their cities are you going to level before you consider that they are liberated? If you really had any moral values, or if you were an honorable man at all you would resign. My son was a man who had high moral values and true courage. Humanity lost a bright light on April 04, 2004. I will live the rest of my life missing Casey desperately. Thank you for that, George. Have a nice day.

God Bless America!! We surely need it!

Cindy Sheehan
Broken hearted mother of a True American Hero: Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04 Sadr City, Baghdad

14 posted on 06/16/2005 11:36:23 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Sybeck1
Here in Georgia, we refer to folks like Mr. Conyers as a "bucket of Stupid" just spilling out where ever. God Love him...He cannot help be stupid.
15 posted on 06/16/2005 11:36:46 AM PDT by possumdawg (There are three types of people- those that can count and those who cannot)
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To: areafiftyone
Nope they're having it in a small room in the Capitol. Conyers just got finished stumbling through his introduction of the discredited Joe Wilson.

The room is decorated with more American flags than at Al Gore's 2000 post-election speeches.

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.

16 posted on 06/16/2005 11:36:49 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: Mo1

This is their witness?..who else is on the panel/program? Thanks..


17 posted on 06/16/2005 11:37:14 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: cyncooper; Howlin

FYI.... Wilson is talking


18 posted on 06/16/2005 11:37:28 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: tiredoflaundry

I like your custom smiley!


19 posted on 06/16/2005 11:37:28 AM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: Mo1

so this is "Mrs. Smith's" husband?


20 posted on 06/16/2005 11:37:43 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I hate Hurricane Season!)
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