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More "Wow."<BR>
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Bernie Ward (M-F 10 PM-1 AM on KGO) was all over this story tonight on KGO AM 810 from San Francisco, which usually comes in clearly here in Idaho most nights after sundown, even with an "average" AM radio, aimed toward the Bay area. <BR>
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So I hit the Internet for more info. Bernie said that Washington Journal on C-Span will have some info on this Downing St. memo DC action tomorrow morning.<BR>
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Check the info below from the Institute For Public Accuracy regarding the Downing St. memo action in DC tomorrow. Notice that Joe Wilson is on call, the same Joe Wilson who went to Niger to explore the claim that Iraq had obtained "yellow cake" uranium, which he found to be false. This is the same Joe Wilson whose wife, Valerie Plame, was later "outed" regarding her undercover work as a CIA operative, some think as revenge or a warning to Wilson or others who challenge the Bush administration agenda. The investigation into who outed Plame's identity as an undercover CIA operative (a monster no-no), as far as I know to date, has never been publicly revealed, nor has any action been taken against the offender. Read more info on Plame's outing at the web link below, then below that is the Institute For Public Accuracy info on tomorrow's DC Downing St. memo action:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26186-2004Sep16.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26186-2004Sep16.html</A><BR>
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Institute for Public Accuracy<BR>
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045<BR>
(202) 347-0020 * <A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.accuracy.org');">http://www.accuracy.org</A> * ipa@accuracy.org<BR>
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PM Wednesday, June 15, 2005<BR>
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Downing Street Memo: Deception and Cover-Up<BR>
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On Thursday June 16, 2005, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room HC-9 of the U.S.<BR>
Capitol, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary<BR>
Committee, and other members of Congress will hold a hearing on the Downing<BR>
Street Minutes and related evidence of White House efforts to cook the books on<BR>
pre-war intelligence.<BR>
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Later on the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET in Lafayette Square Park, in front of the<BR>
White House, Congressman Conyers will deliver to the White House a letter<BR>
addressed to President Bush and signed by over 500,000 Americans and over 90<BR>
members of Congress. The letter asks the President to respond to questions<BR>
raised by the Downing Street Minutes.<BR>
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Among those speaking at the hearings will be: Joe Wilson, former U.S. ambassador<BR>
and WMD expert; Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst who prepared regular<BR>
presidential briefings during the Reagan administration; Cindy Sheehan, mother<BR>
of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq; and John Bonifaz, co-founder of<BR>
AfterDowningStreet.org.<BR>
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The following are available for interviews:<BR>
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JOHN BONIFAZ, DAVID SWANSON, <A HREF="http://by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=7e99ee0274fe3be56012023da90c3ba0&mailto=1&to=david@davidswanson.org&msg=22157F99-5F76-4EBC-8EC7-D3B9EB293AD0&start=0&len=8886&src=&type=x">david@davidswanson.org</A>,<BR>
<A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.AfterDowningStreet.org');">http://www.AfterDowningStreet.org</A><BR>
Bonifaz and Swanson are two of the co-founders of the<BR>
AfterDowningStreet.org coalition which is urging Congress to begin a formal<BR>
investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in<BR>
connection with the Iraq war. The Downing Street Memo consists of minutes of a<BR>
meeting with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top foreign policy<BR>
advisors in July 2002 before the U.S. Congressional and UN votes on Iraq. The<BR>
minutes state that: "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action,<BR>
justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and<BR>
facts were being fixed around the policy." [Video on the controversy is<BR>
available at: [<A HREF="javascript:ol('http://hijackingcatastrophe.org/downingstreet');">http://hijackingcatastrophe.org/downingstreet</A>>.]<BR>
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WILLIAM CHRISTISON, <A HREF="http://by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=7e99ee0274fe3be56012023da90c3ba0&mailto=1&to=bill@christison-santafe.com&msg=22157F99-5F76-4EBC-8EC7-D3B9EB293AD0&start=0&len=8886&src=&type=x">bill@christison-santafe.com</A>,<BR>
<A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.counterpunch.org/christison02082003.html');">http://www.counterpunch.org/christison02082003.html</A><BR>
RAY McGOVERN, <A HREF="http://by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=7e99ee0274fe3be56012023da90c3ba0&mailto=1&to=mcgovern@slschool.org&msg=22157F99-5F76-4EBC-8EC7-D3B9EB293AD0&start=0&len=8886&src=&type=x">mcgovern@slschool.org</A>,<BR>
<A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl%3Fsid=05/06/15/1345223');">http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/15/1345223</A><BR>
Available for a limited number of interviews, McGovern was a 27-year career<BR>
analyst with the CIA. The Washington Post in its lead editorial today writes:<BR>
"The memos add not a single fact to what was previously known about the<BR>
administration's prewar deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what<BR>
was publicly known in July 2002."<BR>
McGovern said today: "If the editors of The Washington Post knew that as of<BR>
July, 2002, the President had, in the words of the Downing Street Memo,<BR>
'inevitably' decided on war, if they knew that the president intended to use as<BR>
justification the conjunction between terrorism and so-called weapons of mass<BR>
destruction, and if they knew that the intelligence and facts were being 'fixed'<BR>
around the policy, then why didn't they say that clearly at the time?" <BR>
Former director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis,<BR>
Christison said today: "The Downing Street Memo shows that war was not a last<BR>
resort as the administration continues to claim, but a first resort. While many<BR>
of us came to that assessment before the invasion, the Memo fits in with other<BR>
things we have found out since the invasion -- like revelations by former<BR>
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil that Bush and others wanted to go after Iraq from<BR>
the start."<BR>
As members of the steering committee for Veteran Intelligence Professionals<BR>
for Sanity, McGovern and Christison were among the authors of the article<BR>
"Cooking Intelligence for War"<BR>
[<<A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.counterpunch.org/vips03152003.html');">http://www.counterpunch.org/vips03152003.html</A>>], which appeared just before<BR>
the invasion of Iraq.<BR>
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JOSEPH WILSON, <A HREF="http://by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=7e99ee0274fe3be56012023da90c3ba0&mailto=1&to=joewilson@jcwilsoninternationalventures.com&msg=22157F99-5F76-4EBC-8EC7-D3B9EB293AD0&start=0&len=8886&src=&type=x">joewilson@jcwilsoninternationalventures.com</A>,<BR>
<A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.politicsoftruth.com');">http://www.politicsoftruth.com</A><BR>
Wilson is author of the book "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that<BR>
Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity." He also wrote the New York<BR>
Times op-ed in July 2003 titled "What I Didn't Find in Africa," in which he<BR>
stated: "The question now is how that answer [the finding that Iraq did not<BR>
obtain uranium from Niger] was or was not used by our political leadership. If<BR>
my information was deemed inaccurate, I understand (though I would be very<BR>
interested to know why). If, however, the information was ignored because it did<BR>
not fit certain preconceptions about Iraq, then a legitimate argument can be<BR>
made that we went to war under false pretenses."<BR>
Wilson said today: "My question appears to have been answered by the<BR>
Downing Street Memo: The administration was fixing the facts to fit the policy<BR>
it wanted. It's incorrect for anyone to state that this is old news since we<BR>
supposedly all knew that Bush wanted war under any circumstances. Until the 2004<BR>
election a majority of Americans mistakenly thought we found weapons of mass<BR>
destruction in Iraq."<BR>
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CINDY SHEEHAN, <A HREF="http://by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=7e99ee0274fe3be56012023da90c3ba0&mailto=1&to=scindy121@aol.com&msg=22157F99-5F76-4EBC-8EC7-D3B9EB293AD0&start=0&len=8886&src=&type=x">scindy121@aol.com</A>, <A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.gsfp.org');">http://www.gsfp.org</A><BR>
Sheehan is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Her son Casey was<BR>
killed in Iraq. She said today: "Members of Congress -- whether they are<BR>
Democrats or Republicans -- should do the right thing. They have a<BR>
Constitutional duty to investigate the facts surrounding the Downing Street<BR>
Memo. They didn't ask my son if he was a Democrat or Republican when he joined<BR>
the military. These are life and death questions and should be treated that<BR>
way."<BR>
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For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:<BR>
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167<BR>
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