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  • The BBC: apologising to torturers
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Pilger - Information Clearing House May 17, 2005
    Can you imagine the BBC and other major broadcasters apologising to a rogue regime which practises racism and ethnic cleansing; which has “effectively legalised the use of torture” (according to Amnesty International); which holds international law in contempt, having defied hundreds of UN resolutions and built an apartheid wall in defiance of the International Court of Justice; which has demolished thousands of people’s homes and given (…)

  • BUSH’S IMPEACHABLE OFFENCES
    5 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Compiled by "Son of a Bush" 1) The now famous Downing Street Memo, along with the testimony of former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil constitute direct evidence of a decision by Bush to invade a sovereign foreign nation on entirely specious grounds.
    2) The decision to deploy chemical weapons in Fallujah came from Rumsfeld who no doubt covered his ass by receiving assent from Bush to use these banned weapons
    3) The decision by Bush to dig up dirt on UN diplomats when the General Assembly (…)

  • Administration officials expressed misgivings on Iraq October 8 2002:Backs up Downing St Memo
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — While President Bush marshals congressional and international support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war.
    These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses — including distorting his links to the al-Qaida terrorist network — have (…)

  • Protest outside TV studio draws attention to Downing Street Memo(Minutes)
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TAMPA - Just a stone’s throw away from a life-size gorilla dressed in military fatigues was another oddity along Kennedy Boulevard Thursday - people protesting about a memo.
    "Did you get the memo?" read the fliers.
    "Air the truth!" said a poster held by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph F. Bohren, outside the WTVT-Ch. 13 studios with about 10 others.
    They were there because of what has become known as the "Downing Street Memo," minutes from a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair (…)

  • Memo to Mainstream Media
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have a three-word response to the media frenzy that followed revelation of the long-secret identity of Deep Throat: Downing Street Memo.
    Here’s what John Dean, a key Watergate figure, wrote about Dubya’s case for the Iraq war in a June 2003 column for www.findlaw.com: "To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. . . . Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be a ’high (…)

  • Secret no more: Downing Street memo
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
    IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY
    Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
    This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
    John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC (…)

  • Administration’s offenses impeachable
    3 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s consider an item from the news of about two weeks ago:
    A British citizen leaked a memo to London’s Sunday Times. The memo was of the written account of a meeting that a man named Richard Dearlove had with the Bush administration in July 2002. Dearlove was the head of the England’s MI-6, the equivalent of the CIA. On July 23, 2002, Dearlove briefed Tony Blair about the meeting. He said that Bush was determined to attack Iraq. He said that Bush knew that U.S. intelligence had no (…)

  • Kerry to bring issue of Downing Street Minutes/Memo to Senate
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW BEDFORD — Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday called on Americans to be more aware of the "bait and switch" Iraq war and the "hollowing out" of the Army in the pursuit of a mistaken policy.
    In a swing through SouthCoast, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee attacked the priorities of the Republican Party and President Bush, elaborating on what they are sacrificing — health care for children, infrastructure, Social Security — in the pursuit of tax cuts.
    "The Holy Grail of the Republican (…)

  • Open Letter to Representatives about the Downing Street Memo (minutes)
    1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 1, 2005
    Dear Senator/Rep___________:
    The American media may be too intimidated to openly challenge the Bush administration regarding the “Downing Street Memo,” but the American legislature has a constitutional obligation to investigate. These documents demonstrate President Bush’s prior knowledge and state of mind when he broke the law in fulfilling his legal obligation to Congress.
    I am disturbed by the media silence regarding this issue, particularly the claim by producers and (…)

  • $1000 Reward for Getting Bush to Answer this Question
    1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Democrats.com is offering a reward of $1,000 to anyone, professional journalist or citizen activist who gets President Bush to answer a particular question.
    The question is: "In July 2002, did you or your administration ’fix’ the intelligence and facts about non-existent Iraqi WMDs and ties to terrorism — which were disputed by US intelligence officials — to sell your decision to invade Iraq to Congress, the American people, and the world - as quoted in the Downing Street Minutes?" (…)