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Palast for Conyers' Hearing on the Downing Street Memo today

The John Conyers' Hearing on the 'Downing Street memo' has changed the start
and end time. The new time is from 2 PM to 6 PM EST.

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Our special broadcast will be anchored by Mitch Jesserich from Free Speech
Radio News and Verna Avery Brown, Pacifica Washington Bureau Chief, and will
include guest analysts, live hearing coverage, and post event listener calls.

Confirmed guests for our Pacifica special broadcast include:

  a.. Congressman John Conyers (Chair of the Hearing),

  b.. Ray McGovern (CIA analyst, witness for Hearing),

  c.. George Galloway, Member of Parliament/United Kingdom,

  d.. Frances Boyle, University of Illinois Law Professor who has drawn up
Impeachment papers, and more.
Initially prevented from holding the Hearing on Capitol Hill by the
Republicans, Conyers was to hold it at the Democratic National Committee
Building in Washington, but now reports indicate the Hearing may in fact
happen on Capital Hill. Stay tuned!

updated:
06/15/05
17:25 PM EST

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Palast for Conyers: The OTHER ' Memos' from Downing Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue

Greg Palast, unable to attend hearings in Washington Thursday, has submitted
the following testimony:

Chairman Conyers, It's official: The Downing Street memos, a snooty New York
Times "News Analysis" informs us, "are not the Dead Sea Scrolls." You are
warned, Congressman, to ignore the clear evidence of official mendacity and
bald-faced fibbing by our two nations' leaders because the cry for
investigation came from the dark and dangerous world of "blogs" and
"opponents" of Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush.On May 5, "blog" site Buzzflash.com
carried my story, IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED," bringing the London
Times report of the Downing Street memo to US media which seemed to be
suffering at the time from an attack of NADD -- "news attention deficit
disorder."The memo, which contains the ill-making admission that "the
intelligence and facts were being fixed" to match the Iraq-crazed fantasies of
our President, is sufficient basis for a hearing toward impeachment of the
Chief Executive. But to that we must add the other evidence and secret memos
and documents still hidden from the American public. Other foreign-based
journalists could doubtless add more, including the disclosure that the key
inspector of Iraq's biological weapons, the late Dr. David Kelly, found the
Bush-Blair analysis of his intelligence was indeed "fixed," as the Downing
Street memo puts it, around the war-hawk policy.Here is a small timeline of
confidential skullduggery dug up and broadcast by my own team for BBC
Television and Harper's on the secret plans to seize Iraq's assets and oil.
February 2001 - Only one month after the first Bush-Cheney inauguration, the
State Department's Pam Quanrud organizes a secret confab in California to make
plans for the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam.  US oil industry
advisor Falah Aljibury and others are asked to interview would-be replacements
for a new US-installed dictator. On BBC Television's Newsnight, Aljibury
himself explained,"It is an invasion, but it will act like a coup. The
original plan was to liberate Iraq from the Saddamists and from the
regime."March 2001 - Vice-President Dick Cheney meets with oil company
executives and reviews oil field maps of Iraq. Cheney refuses to release the
names of those attending or their purpose. Harper's has since learned their
plan and purpose -- see below.October/November 2001 - An easy military victory
in Afghanistan emboldens then-Dep. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to
convince the Administration to junk the State Department "coup" plan in favor
of an invasion and occupation that could remake the economy of Iraq. And
elaborate plan, ultimately summarized in a 101-page document, scopes out the
"sale of all state enterprises" -- that is, most of the nation's assets, "b&
especially in the oil and supporting industries." 2002 - Grover Norquist and
other corporate lobbyists meet secretly with Defense, State and Treasury
officials to ensure the invasion plans for Iraq include plans for protecting
"property rights." The result was a pre-invasion scheme to sell off Iraq's oil
fields, banks, electric systems, and even change the country's copyright laws
to the benefit of the lobbyists' clients.   Occupation chief Paul Bremer
would later order these giveaways into Iraq law.Fall 2002 - Philip Carroll,
former CEO of Shell Oil USA, is brought in by the Pentagon to plan the
management of Iraq's oil fields. He works directly with Paul Wolfowitz and
Douglas Feith. "There were plans," says Carroll, "maybe even too many plans"
-- but none disclosed to the public nor even the US Congress.January 2003 -
Robert Ebel, former CIA oil analyst, is sent, BBC learns, to London to meet
with Fadhil Chalabi to plan terms for taking over Iraq's oil.March 2003 - What
White House spokesman Ari Fleisher calls "Operations Iraqi Liberation" (OIL)
begins. (Invasion is re-christened "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom.)March
2003 - Defense Department is told in confidence by US Energy Information
Administrator Guy Caruso that Iraq's fields are incapable of a massive
increase in output. Despite this intelligence, Dep. Secretary Wolfowitz
testifies to Congress that invasion will be a free ride. He swears, "There's
a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money.
b&We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction
and relatively soon," a deliberate fabrication promoted by the Administration,
an insider told BBC, as "part of the sales pitch" for war.May 2003 - General
Jay Garner, appointed by Bush as viceroy over Iraq, is fired by Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The general revealed in an interview for BBC that
he resisted White House plans to sell off Iraq's oil and national
assets."That's just one fight you don't want to take on," Garner told me. But
apparently, the White House wanted that fight.The general also disclosed that
these invade-and-grab plans were developed long before the US asserted that
Saddam still held WDM: "All I can tell you is the plans were pretty
elaborate; they didn't start them in 2002, they were started in
2001."November/December 2003 - Secrecy and misinformation continues even after
the invasion. The oil industry objects to the State Department plans for
Iraq's oil fields and drafts for the Administration a 323-page plan, "Options
for [the] Iraqi Oil Industry." Per the industry plan, the US forces Iraq to
create an OPEC-friendly state oil company that supports the OPEC cartel's
extortionate price for petroleum. The Stone WallHarper's and BBC obtained the
plans despite official denial of their existence, then footdragging when
confronted with the evidence of the reports' existence.Still today, the State
and Defense Departments and White House continue to stonewall our demands for
the notes of the meetings between lobbyists, oil industry consultants and key
Administration officials that would reveal the hidden economic motives for the
war. What are the secret interests behind this occupation? Who benefits?
Who met with whom? Why won't this Administration release these documents of
the economic blueprint for the war? To date, the State and Defense Department
responses to our reports are risible, and their answers to our requests for
documents run from evasive to downright misleading. Maybe Congress, with
it's power of subpoena, can do better.Blogs, the Media and DemocracyLet me
conclude with a comment about those pesky "blogs" that so bother the New York
Times. We should stand and offer a moment of quiet gratitude to the
electronic swarm of gadfly commentators who make it so much harder for the US
media to ignore news not officially blessed. Yes, Judith Miller's breathless
reports for The Times that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction may
have maintained "access" for the mainstream press to its diet of White House
propaganda, but the blogs insure that, whatever nonsense the US press is
biting on, the public need not swallow.

******** This week Greg Palast's investigative team was named winner of a
2004-5 Project Censored award from the California State University at Sonoma
Journalism School for their exposC) of the secret US plans to seize Iraq's oil
assets. Special thanks to the chief investigator on Iraq, Leni von Eckardt,
as well as additional support from Matt Pascarella. The investigation was
conducted for Harper's Magazine, BBC Television Newsnight and "blog" outlet
www.TomPaine.com.View the BBC television reports and the Harper's and related
reports at www.GregPalast.com

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