"And Conyers, et. all, will wonder why their fake hearing receives scant attention..."

Kevin from Wizbang, as usual pooh poohing Rep. Conyers hearings scheduled for this afternoon on the Downing Street Memo.

I guess Kevin did not see CNN this morning...
Odd that Kevin has not answered my post earlier this week on Why Right Wingers don't want this investigated???

BBA

Oh yeah, and just one more thing Kevin...

"What a handful of C-SPAN3 viewers will be treated too is a bunch of Democrats, many of whom are members of the Judiciary Committee attempting to hold a hearing without the Chairman and majority members. Given the moonbat factor I suspect that every member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (note their website is hosted by the lone Socialist in Congress - Rep. Bernie Sanders) will find a way to get some face time."

Eh... Are we suppossed to find it shocking that a Republican House that refuses to even acknowledge the stink coming from Tom DeLay's office, will not support a legitimate investigation into the allegations posed by the Downing Street Memo? Eh... You can do better than that.

Update: From Raw Story, Rep. Conyers releases a statement before todays hearing:

Few issues are more important under our constitutional form of government than the decision to go to war and place our soldiers lives at risk.

It is no insignificant matter when in the fall of 2002 President Bush told us that war would be his last resort. It is not unimportant when on March 6, 2003, the president promised us, "I've not made up [my] mind about military action."

Over the last two months, the veracity of those statements has - to put it mildly -- come into question:

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On May 1, the London Times released the now infamous Downing Street Minutes, in which the head of Britain's intelligence agency reported "military action [by the U.S.] was now seen as inevitable ... and "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." A former senior U.S. official subsequently told Knight Ridder that the minutes were "an absolutely accurate description of what transpired."
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On May 29, further documents were released revealing that in the summer of 2002, British and U.S. aircraft had doubled their rates of bombing in Iraq, in an apparent attempt to provoke an excuse for war.
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Last Sunday, the London Times released six new British documents corroborating the Downing Street Minutes and indicating that as early as March of 2002, our government had decided it would be "necessary to create the conditions" to justify war.
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Today Newsweek is reporting that two high ranking British Officials confirmed that by 2002, Iraq's nuclear weapons program was "effectively frozen" and there was "no recent evidence" tying Iraq to international terrorism.

If these disclosures are true - and so far no one from the Bush Administration has bothered to respond to our letters -- they establish a prima facie case of going to war under false pretenses. This means that more than 1,600 brave Americans and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis would have lost their lives for a lie.

That is why we are here today. That is why 122 Members of Congress -- which as of today includes the Minority Leader -- have asked the president to explain his actions. That is why more than 550,000 Americans are joining with us in demanding answers from the Administration.

122 Representatives and 550,000 Americans are demanding answers, and yet "Good Republicans," like Kevin seem to think that is is some kind of lunacy to even question the Administration's pre-war intentions. I am at a complete loss as to why this is. I mean the Right has tired to put a lock on patriotism as a uniquely Conservative trait for the last two years+, and yet what is more patriotic than demanding accountability from our Government.

This issue for me is not about who is right on this issue. It is about OUR Right to know, one way or the other...

I also found this little tidbit interesting:

Conyers and other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee were recently told the Republican majority staff had instituted a new policy to deny any request from a Democrat to use a committee hearing room.

GOP Judiciary spokesman Jeff Lungren told The Hill Tuesday Republicans were upset Congressmembers were addressing Conyers as “Mr. Chairman.”

“They were unwilling or unable to make those changes,” Lungren added. “At this point, if they want to hold these forums, they’ll have to find some other place to do it.”

I always find it interesting that Bush is always talking about the White House being, "The People's House," and I would assume that would also extend to the Capital itself... And yet, Republicans can deny duly elected members of Congress use of a meeting room...

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