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

[kristinn]

Forum
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.

[karmichit]

I have wondered, perhaps I am wrong, but does anyone besides news hounds and pundits even know or care about this? As to wether or not we should worry about it, I say no. The American people do not care, even the ones who may even buy into this aren't passionate enough about it to give it any momentum. I predict this will be a non-issue over time, as have many purported theories and allegation have become since the Iraq war started. The average persons response to this is "yeah, whatever, who cares, now put it back on Surviver.."