{"id":1424,"date":"2005-05-26T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2005-05-26T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T16:14:33","slug":"grassroots-movement-seeks-resolution-of-inquiry-into-downing-street-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT SEEKS ‘RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY’ INTO DOWNING STREET MEMO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAW STORY’s<\/a> Larisa Alexandrovna is set to report shortly that a movement seeking a “Resolution of Inquiry” by members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee into details surrounding the Downing Street Memo<\/a> is now under way.<\/p>\n

A number of grassroots citizens organizations, including The BRAD BLOG<\/a> and Velvet Revolution<\/a> have issued our support for such a Resolution, which could potentially be the first move towards a criminal investigation and\/or Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

In the now-infamous July 2002 memo (issued a full 8 months prior to the War on Iraq), it is said that “Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”<\/p>\n

Neither the Bush or Tony Blair administrations have disputed the authenticity of the memo or the information contained within it.<\/p>\n

89 Members of Congress recently sent a letter to George W. Bush<\/a> inquiring about the memo. As of today, no response has been received by Congress.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> Alexandrovna’s story is now up at RAW STORY<\/a>. It begins…<\/p>\n

Coalition of citizen groups seek formal inquiry into whether Bush acted illegally in push for Iraq war<\/b><\/p>\n

A coalition of citizen activist groups running the gamut of social and political issues will ask Congress to file a Resolution of Inquiry, the first necessary legal step to determine whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in misleading the country about his decision to go to war in Iraq…<\/p><\/div>\n

FURTHER UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> A website has now been established for the newly emerging citizen’s coaltion at AfterDowningStreet.org<\/a><\/p>\n

FURTHER FURTHER UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> Velvet Revolution’s official statement is now online here<\/a>. Please sign this petition to your lawmakers now!<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAW STORY’s Larisa Alexandrovna is set to report shortly that a movement seeking a “Resolution of Inquiry” by members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee into details surrounding the Downing Street Memo is now under way. A number of grassroots citizens organizations, including The BRAD BLOG and Velvet Revolution have issued our support for such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}