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The Downing Street memo (or the Downing Street Minutes), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the smoking gun memo, is the note of a 23 July 2002 secret meeting [1] [2] of senior British government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time.
The Downing Street memo itself was an official record of a meeting of the British war cabinet held in July 2002. [3] It revealed the disclosure by Sir Richard Dearlove , then the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ), that the intelligence to justify an invasion was being "fixed around the policy".
It was in this capacity that Rycroft issued the "Downing Street memo". During his time in Downing Street, in 2003, he was made a CBE. [4] From March 2005 to July 2008, Rycroft served as Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In July 2008, he was appointed EU Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and then, in 2011, he became Chief ...
On June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) assembled an unofficial meeting to discuss the Downing Street memo and to consider grounds for impeachment. Conyers filed a resolution on December 18, 2005, to create an investigative committee to consider impeachment.
In May 2005 Danner wrote an essay for The New York Review accompanying the first American publication of the so-called "Downing Street Memo", the leaked minutes of a July 2002 meeting of high-level British officials that confirmed that when it came to the debate over whether to go to war in Iraq, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed ...
The last time Mr Obama visited Downing Street was eight years ago in 2016. The former president met with then prime minister David Cameron at Number 10 for talks ahead of the Brexit vote.
On 1 May 2005, a related UK document known as the Downing Street memo was apparently leaked to The Sunday Times. The memo, which details the minutes of a 26 July 2002 meeting, recorded the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), after his recent visit to Washington, expressing his view that, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through ...
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