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"Downing Street" revelations.(INSIDE REPORT)
The "Downing Street Memo," official minutes of a briefing given on July 23, 2002 by Richard Dearlove, then-director of Britain's MI-6 (the equivalent of the CIA), has been largely ignored by the mainstream U.S. press, and dismissed as both inconsequential and a "possible" hoax by Vice President Dick Cheney and the Bush administration's talk radio echo chamber.
Based on information gathered during a visit to Washington just prior to the briefing, Dearlove concluded that war with Saddam's regime would be "justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD [weapons of mass destruction]." Furthermore, he observed, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," rather than policy being based on sound intelligence. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw agreed with that assessment: "It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided." "But," he continued, "the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea, and Iran."
The "Downing Street Memo" is actually just one of seven official documents describing the covert strategy employed by Washington and London to bring about a war in Iraq.
Michael Smith, the British reporter who broke the story of those critical documents, pointed out in a June 26 Los Angeles Times op-ed that the most critical revelation contained therein dealt with the Bush and Blair governments' two-track strategy to bring about a war. Plan "A" involved "wrong-footing" Saddam into providing a legal pretext for ...
- DOWNING STREET MEMO IGNORED.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)
- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) June 16, 2005 700+ words
...On Iraq, the so-called Downing Street memo from July 2002 says intelligence...of what happened?'' The "Downing Street memo'' refers to a meeting in...significant reporting on the Downing Street memo. Greg Bryant Crestview Hills
- Kerry cautious on probing `Downing Street Memo'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Straub, Noelle June 20, 2005 700+ words
...to raise the controversial "Downing Street Memo" as an issue in Washington...intelligence to fit the policy. The Downing Street memo generated a firestorm in Britain...thorough explanation of the Downing Street memo," he said. "The administration...
- The secret way to war; the Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's buried...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2006 700+ words
...The secret way to war; the Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's buried...York Review Books DS79 The Downing Street Memo--the minutes of a high...republished here, along with the Downing Street Memo and other government documents...
- Downing Street memo's route to paper.(NEWS)(OP EX: THE READER'S REP)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Parry, Kate June 12, 2005 700+ words
...whole, have been in slow motion reacting to the Downing Street memo, a highly classified report the London Times published...coverage or strangle it. First, just what is the Downing Street memo? It's minutes from a July 23, 2002, meeting...
- DOWNING STREET MEMO DESERVES FRONT-PAGE PLAY.(Opinion)(Letter to the Editor)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) June 19, 2005 700+ words
To the Editor: How disturbing to find "Downing Street memo comes to D.C." buried on page A-13 in last Sunday's Post-Standard. If the president is lying to us, he is undermining...
- Website buoys US interest in Downing Street Memo.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: PR Week (US) June 27, 2005 700+ words
WASHINGTON: Capitol media might have been slow to pick up on the Downing Street Memo, but it is gaining traction among the public, due in large part to the efforts of one website. Since going live May 13, DowningStreetMemo...
- Asleep at the wheel: the media's perplexing performance on the Downing Street...
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Rieder, Rem August 1, 2005 700+ words
...Fats Domino." Big Al Downing I got. What I don't get is the American news media's tepid response to the Downing Street memo. Think about it: A memo surfaces revealing that Britain's top intelligence official, after meeting with the...
- What the 'Downing Street' memos show; Interpretations vary, but British...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 21, 2005 700+ words
...internal British documents known collectively as the "Downing Street memos" is shedding new light on the thinking process...first memo The first internal paper to earn the tag "Downing Street Memo" was published in the Sunday Times of London last...
