Conyers Hearing Today!
Michigan Representative John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee will be holdinghttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif a hearing on the Downing Street memo today, June 16, 2005, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, (11:30 a.m. Pacific time.) There will be live coverage online, on radio and on C-SPAN 3. (C-SPAN 3? Who knew there was a '3'? My cable only features 1 and 2.)
A quick trip to AfterDowningStreet.Org will provide you with links to various feeds.
Conyers is still waiting to hear from the White House in response to the letter he sent, signed with 88 other Congressmen and thousands of citizens, asking for answers about the questions raised by the memo.
Update and Correction: I just heard Conyers on the Al Franken radio show. The current number of Congressional co-signers is up to 104, and citizens up to 553,000. Also, I should note that this is technically not a "hearing" but a "forum." Without the cooperation of that bastion of bipartisanship and cooperation Chairman Sensenbrenner, there can't be a "hearing." So Democrat Conyers can only convene a "forum." The Chairman has even denied Conyers the use of the hearing room, so they are using a small room the Democrats had access to, elsewhere in the Capitol.
A quick trip to AfterDowningStreet.Org will provide you with links to various feeds.
Conyers is still waiting to hear from the White House in response to the letter he sent, signed with 88 other Congressmen and thousands of citizens, asking for answers about the questions raised by the memo.
As a result of these concerns, we would ask that you respond to the following questions:I think it would be good to know, don't you?
- Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
- Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain's commitment to invade prior to this time?
- Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?
- At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?
- Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to "fix" the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?
Update and Correction: I just heard Conyers on the Al Franken radio show. The current number of Congressional co-signers is up to 104, and citizens up to 553,000. Also, I should note that this is technically not a "hearing" but a "forum." Without the cooperation of that bastion of bipartisanship and cooperation Chairman Sensenbrenner, there can't be a "hearing." So Democrat Conyers can only convene a "forum." The Chairman has even denied Conyers the use of the hearing room, so they are using a small room the Democrats had access to, elsewhere in the Capitol.
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