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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.
Michael Smith (born 1952) is a British author who specializes in spies and espionage. [1] He is also a former member of the board of the Bletchley Park Trust. [2]Smith is a former soldier and journalist best known for obtaining and publishing the documents collectively known as The Downing Street Memos.
On February 5, 2003, the Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation [1] [2] to the United Nations Security Council.He explained the rationale for the Iraq War which would start on March 19, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq.
Dated 17 October 2002. "This letter is sensitive," Rycroft underlined. "It must be seen only by those with a real need to know its contents, and must not be copied further." [3] 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]
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.
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History. New York: New York Review Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-59017-207-0. Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. New York: Nation Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1-56858-413-3. Reporting and Essays (selected) "Haiti: Beyond the Mountains I". The New Yorker. November 27, 1989.
Joseph Charles Wilson IV (November 6, 1949 – September 27, 2019) was an American diplomat who was best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York Times op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa"; [1] and the subsequent leaking by the Bush/Cheney administration of information pertaining to the ...
On May 5, 2005, Conyers and 88 other members of Congress wrote an open letter to the White House inquiring about the Downing Street memo. This was a leaked memorandum that revealed an apparent secret agreement between the Bush administration and the Second Blair ministry to invade Iraq in 2002.