Joe Wilson and Richard Dearlove to testify at Conyer's hearing?

[kentuck]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0612-01.htm


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The White House has declined to respond to a letter from 89 Democratic congressmen asking if it was true — as Dearlove told the July meeting — that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” in Washington.

The Downing Street memo burst into the mainstream American media only last week after it was raised at a joint Bush-Blair press conference, forcing the prime minister to insist that “the facts were not fixed in any shape or form at all”.

John Conyers, the Democratic congressman who drafted the letter to Bush, has now written to Dearlove asking him to say whether or not it was accurate that he believed the intelligence was being “fixed” around the policy. He also asked the former M16 chief precisely when Bush and Blair had agreed to invade Iraq and whether it is true they agreed to “manufacture” the UN ultimatum in order to justify the war.

He and other Democratic congressmen plan to hold their own inquiry this Thursday with witnesses including Joe Wilson, the American former ambassador who went to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium ore for its nuclear weapons program.

[cynatnite]

1. I'd pay money to be there in person

either way, it'll look good on c-span :evilgrin:

[baby_bear]

3. Do you think it will be on CSpan?

Cspan has to carry the House when it's in session, so I would imagine Hastert will make sure the House is in session when this hearing is going on.

Maybe Cspan 3 though?

b_b

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Email C-SPAN and urge them to cover it! here's their email!

[e-mail]

[baby_bear]

6. I just emailed them, thanks

Cool. I hope they listen.

I am a good "consumer" of Cspan.

b_b

[kentuck]

2. The Witnesses:

WITNESSES:

Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and WMD Expert;
Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA analyst who prepared regular Presidential briefings during the Reagan administration;
Cindy Sheehan, mother of fallen American soldier;
John Bonifaz, renowned constitutional lawyer and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Ray McGovern?!!!! Holy Moly!

I cannot wait to see this hearing! Remember the interview Will Pitt did with him? OMG...is this going to be good!