[911TruthAction] Downing Street Hearing Moved to US Capitol 6-16-05

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[Afterdowningstreet] Hearings Moved to US Capitol

 

 

HEARINGS ON DOWNING STREET MINUTES MOVED TO U.S. CAPITOL

AND MOVED TO 2:30

 

Important Speakers Added to Line-Up at Rally

 

Citizens urged to lobby Congress Members and Senators, and to meet at

DNC, which is serving as overflow room.

 

On Thursday June 16, 2005, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room HC-9

of the U S. Capitol, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the

House Judiciary Committee, and other Congress Members will hold a

hearing on the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence of efforts

to cook the books on pre-war intelligence.

 

The hearings had been planned for the Democratic National Committee

offices because the Republicans controlling the House Judiciary

Committee had refused to permit the ranking Democratic Member to use

a large room on the Hill.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/index

html

 

However, the Democrats did have access to a small room in the

Capitol, and Congressman Conyers has decided to move the hearings

there. This does not indicate any change in position from the

Republicans.

 

Members of the media will be welcome, but citizens in town for the 5

p.m. rally at the White House will have difficulty getting into the

2:30 hearings

 

The DNC will serve as an overflow room, so people can still go there:

the Wasserman Room at 430 S Capitol St. SE.

 

AfterDowningStreet.org encourages people, instead, to spend the

afternoon lobbying their Congress Member and two Senators, and paying

special visits to the offices of Congressmen John Conyers and Maurice

Hinchey, Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, and Senators

John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to thank them for their leadership.

Recommended talking points can be found in a one-page document at the

top of

www.afterdowningstreet.org.

 

Later on the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET in Lafayette Square Park, in

front of the White House, a large rally will support Congressman

Conyers who plans to deliver to the White House a letter addressed to

President Bush and signed by over 500,000 Americans and at least 94

Congress Members. The letter asks the President to respond to

questions raised by the Downing Street Minutes.

 

Among those speaking at the hearings will be:

Joe Wilson, Former Ambassador and WMD Expert; Ray McGovern, 27-year

CIA analyst who prepared regular Presidential briefings during the

Reagan administration; Cindy Sheehan, mother of fallen American

soldier; John Bonifaz, renowned constitutional lawyer and co-founder

of AfterDowningStreetorg.

 

Among those speaking at the rally will be:

Congressman John Conyers (schedule permitting); Congresswoman Barbara

Lee (schedule permitting); Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (schedule

permitting); Congressman Maurice Hinchey (schedule permitting); Cindy

Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace; John Bonifaz, Co-

Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org; Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of

Global Exchange; Stephen Cleghorn, Member of Military Families Speak

Out; Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Board Member of Progressive Democrats of

America; Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Reg Keys, Member of

Military Families Against the War, challenger to Tony Blair in last

election (flying in from UK); William Rivers Pitt, Reporter for

Progressive Democrats of America; Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator

of United for Peace and Justice; Kevin Zeese, Director of Democracy

Rising

 

More information, and flyers promoting the rally, are available at www

afterdowningstreet.org

 

Flyers to print, copy, and distribute widely:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/rally.pdf

 

LOCAL RALLIES PLANNED AROUND COUNTRY

Supporters of this campaign are independently organizing rallies on

Thursday at locations around the country.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules

php?op=modload & name=News & file=article & sid=211

 

AfterDowningStreet.org is a rapidly growing coalition of veterans'

groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched

on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a

formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed

impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.

 

David Swanson david 202-329-7847

Jonathan Schwarz jonathan_schwarz 773-296-0838