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After Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that launched the occupation of Iraq (and the one that keeps it going) and to hold accountable its architects.
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The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the summer 2002 and—determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies—fixed the intelligence and facts. What has come to be known as the Downing Street...
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When the major networks cover stories like the Michael Jackson trial instead of the Downing Street memo, just click the remote. At a crowded basement forum on the Downing Street memo, Democrats demanded an inquiry into what Bush knew about Iraq war planning and when he knew it,
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Downing Street memo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "Downing Street memo" (occasionally DSM, or the "Downing Street Minutes"), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", is the note of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting of...
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Is there anything important in the Downing Street memo? This is the now-notorious secret transcript of a British ministerial meeting on July 23, 2002—obtained and published by the Sunday Times of London just this past May Day—which seems to suggest that, n The Downing Street Memo will be a key footnote in the history books;
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The discussion at 10 Downing St. on July 23, 2002 calls to mind the first meeting of George W. Bush's National Security Council (NSC) on Jan. 30, 2001, at which the president made it clear that toppling Saddam Hussein sat atop his to-do list, according to then-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil, who was there.
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"When I go back [to Washington] on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper. The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft,
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The Downing Street Memo & The Tin Foil Hatter's Tea Party Setting aside the ridiculous image of a US Senator acting like a small child with a gavel, the British memo referred to is The Downing Street Memo.
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INSIDE Downing Street Tony Blair had gathered some of his senior ministers and advisers for a pivotal meeting in the build-up to the Iraq war. Outside Downing Street, the rest of Britain, including most cabinet ministers, knew nothing of this. True, tensions were running high, and fears of terrorism were widespread.
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