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DESCRIPTION:Rep. Lee Wants Inquiry on Downing Street Memo  By Political Desk   July 21, 
 2005   Lee Will Hold Town Hall Meeting Saturday on Bush Administration Case 
 for War  Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced a Resolution of 
 Inquiry calling on the Bush administration to produce information to answer 
 questions raised by a series of classified British memos that suggest that 
 pre-war intelligence was fixed in order to justify the invasion of Iraq.  
 “These documents offer strong evidence that the Bush administration 
 ‘fixed’ intelligence in order to mislead our country into war, evidence 
 the administration has failed to dispute or answer,” said Lee. 
 “Americans deserve to know the truth about the circumstances under which 
 our troops were sent to war.”  In June, Lee joined Ranking Member of the 
 House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers (D-MI) and 131 members of Congress 
 in writing to the President, asking him to answer critical questions raised 
 by the Downing Street memo, including whether anyone in the administration 
 disputed the accuracy of the leaked document and if there was a coordinated 
 effort with the US intelligence community and/or British officials to 
 “fix” the intelligence and facts around the policy, as the leaked 
 document state. Lee, Conyers and other members of Congress personally 
 delivered the letter to the White House, along with petition signatures 
 from more than 575,000 people calling for answers. The White House has not 
 responded.  Lee’s bill, which has 26 co-sponsors, would require the 
 President and Secretary of State to give Congress all information relating 
 to communication with officials of the United Kingdom relating to U.S. 
 policy in Iraq between January 1, 2002 and October 16, 2002, the date 
 Congress authorized the President to use force in Iraq.  The Resolution of 
 Inquiry is a privileged resolution, which means that if it is not acted on 
 in 14 legislative days after it is introduced, the member of Congress who 
 introduced it is entitled to request that it be brought to the House floor 
 for a vote.  Lee and nine other members of Congress will be holding Town 
 Hall meetings on Saturday to highlight the administration’s failure to 
 address the questions raised by these documents. Saturday marks the third 
 anniversary of the Downing Street meeting between U.S and British officials 
 whose minutes have prompted questions that intelligence was “fixed” to 
 justify invasion.  Lee’s Town Hall meeting will take place at the Grand 
 Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave, in Oakland, from 11:00am-12:30pm.     \n 
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SUMMARY:Town Hall Meeting Saturday on Bush Administration Case for War
LOCATION:Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/22/71783.php
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