Dems To Hold Iraq Intell Hearings-Numerous Former Officials To Speak

[kpete]

DEMOCRATS TO HOLD IRAQ INTELLIGENCE HEARINGS: POWELL'S EX-CHIEF OF STAFF,
DOWNING STREET REPORTER TO SPEAK...

Senate Democratic committee to hold oversight hearing on Iraq pre-war intelligence

John Byrne and Ron Brynaert
Published: Friday June 23, 2006

Downing Street Memo reporter to join Democrats

The Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) will be holding a special oversight hearing on pre-war intelligence relating to Iraq Monday, RAW STORY has learned.

"If we're going to get things right when it comes to Iran, North Korea, and other national security threats, we need to learn what went wrong in the case of Iraq," DPC chairman Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said in a statement.

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Numerous former officials to speak

British journalist Michael Smith, who broke the Downing Street memos story in the spring of 2005, which revealed that Blair and his ministers plotted to justify Bush's planned invasion eight months before the offical start of the war, will appear as a witness at the hearing.

Two former officials slated to testify were recently featured in the PBS Frontline documentary "The Dark Side" which reported on the battle between Vice President Cheney and the CIA to control secret intelligence activities.


more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senate_Democratic_committee_to_hold_oversight_0623.html

[blm]

1. FINALLY - we could have had it LAST YEAR with the DSM investigation

This is truly a case of better late than never - but, DAMNNNNNNNNNN...............

[grasswire]

2. will they find a basement room for the hearing?

I don't have high hopes of this being easy.

[emulatorloo]

3. I can practically guarantee media won't cover it n/t

[watrwefitinfor]

4. And if a tree falls in the woods....

Who is going to report on this? Raw Story? Brad? A PBS special in two years?

Meantime, there is bound to be another terralert or worse come Monday.
No tv time for this baby, either, I fear.

Well, I'm still glad they are doing it. I hope something comes of it.

Wat

[me b zola]

5. >rubs eyes, reads again<

Well if we can get cautious Dems like Dorgan on board, I'd say we're moving in the right direction. :thumbsup:



on edit: where'd my subject line go? Let's see if it works this time

[kpete]

6. Full list of witnesses as listed on the DPC press release:

Full list of witnesses as listed on the DPC press release:

Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2001-2005

Paul Pillar, CIA official responsible for coordinating intelligence on Iraq, 2000-2005

Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, 2001-2003

Wayne White, State Department principal Iraq analyst, 2003-2005

Rod Barton, Senior Advisor to the Iraq Survey Group, 2003-2004

Michael Smith, reporter for the Sunday Times of London, and the first to report the existence of the so-called “Downing Street Memo”

Joseph Cirincione, co-author of WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications

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