Conyers vs. The Post -- John Nichols

[libertypirate]

There is painful irony in the fact that, during the same month that the confirmation of "Deep Throat's" identity has allowed the Washington Post to relive its Watergate-era glory days, that newspaper is blowing the dramatically more significant story of the "fixed" intelligence the Bush administration used to scam Congress and U.S. allies into supporting the disasterous invasion and occupation of
Iraq.

Last week, when the ranking Democrat on the House
Judiciary Committee, Michigan Democrat John Conyers, chaired an extraordinary hearing on what has come to be known as the "Downing Street Memo" -- details of pre-war meetings where aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the fact that, while the case for war was "thin," the Bush administration was busy making sure that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" -- the Post ridiculed Conyers and the dozens of other members of Congress who are trying to get to the bottom of a scandal that former White House counsel John Dean has correctly identified as "worse than Watergate."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050619/cm_thenation/13617

[garybeck]

1. my how things change

this time deep thoat seems to be in england.

[libertypirate]

2. rawstory just posted a new document

Seems that the Brits knew the "spikes in activity" were also on the wrong side of legality.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. thanks! don't forget to recommend on yahoo

I'm going to Wisconsin tomorrow, and am going to stop in Madison on way back; gonna try to look him up at his paper there