Very comprehensive news report about tomorrow's hearings (sounds like reporter has been keeping up on DU!)
House Democrat's forum to examine Downing Street Memo
By Ruby L. Bailey, Knight Ridder Newspapers 6/15/05
WASHINGTON - The secret British memo of 2002 that reported that
President Bush was determined to go to war against
Iraq months earlier than he publicly acknowledged will get its first official hearing on Thursday - sort of.
In the closest version so far to a congressional hearing on the Downing Street memo, Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., will head a forum examining the document. That will be followed by an Internet-organized rally in front of the White House.
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Conyers said he's holding the hearing, which will be televised on C-SPAN 3, to uncover whether "there was a secret decision well ahead of the authority Congress had given" on Oct. 11, 2002, to Bush to launch the war. Conyers said the memo suggests that even as the Bush administration "was assuring Congress, they were secretly planning war."
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Witnesses scheduled to appear have no connection to the memo or to the Bush or Blair administrations. Among those scheduled to testify is Cindy Sheehan, mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, and Joe Wilson, former ambassador to Africa and a critic of the Iraq war.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050615/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_memo_wa_1