{"id":1444,"date":"2005-06-07T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T20:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2005-06-07T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T20:54:27","slug":"bushblair-asked-about-downing-street-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"Bush\/Blair Asked about Downing Street Minutes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>We were pulling for Eric Brewer, our man in D.C. (well, BTCNews.com’s<\/a> man in D.C., but as he’s a blogger and was a featured guest on last weekend’s BRAD SHOW<\/a>, we consider him one of our own), to win the $1000 offered<\/a> to anyone who would publicly ask Bush about the Downing Street Minutes\/Memo. It’s only been over a month or so since it was revealed, according to the minutes, 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

Brewer was there today, but Steve Holland of Reuters beat him to the punch. We’ll let Eric give you the first-hand skinny<\/a>…<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> We like Brewer’s account. But for those who prefer the tale of the tape, it’s right here (courtesy of our friend, David Edwards): RealPlayer<\/a> or Windows Media<\/a><\/p>\n

ANOTHER UPDATE:<\/b> Constitutional Attorney John Bonifaz, on behalf of AfterDowningStreet.org<\/a>, renews the call for a Congressional investigation<\/a> into the matter:<\/p>\n

The American people deserve to know the truth. Mr. Dearlove’s report in July 2002 directly contradicts what the President and the Prime Minister said today. Only a full congressional investigation, with subpoena power, will reveal the truth.
\n…
\nAfterDowningStreet.org, a broad coalition of veterans groups, peace groups, and public interest organizations across this country, renews its call today for Members of Congress to introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the House Judiciary Committee to launch a formal investigation into whether the President of the United States has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. This inquiry must now answer the question: Has the President engaged in a conspiracy to deceive and mislead the United States Congress and the American people about the basis for going to war against Iraq? If the President has committed a High Crime, he must be held accountable under the United States Constitution.<\/div>\n

It should also be noted that Mr. Bonifaz was a guest on last Saturday’s BRAD SHOW<\/a> as well, during which time he informed us that he was also a supporter of the Impeachment of Bill Clinton. Just so’s ya know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were pulling for Eric Brewer, our man in D.C. (well, BTCNews.com’s man in D.C., but as he’s a blogger and was a featured guest on last weekend’s BRAD SHOW, we consider him one of our own), to win the $1000 offered to anyone who would publicly ask Bush about the Downing Street Minutes\/Memo. It’s […]<\/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-1444","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\/1444","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=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}