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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 09:42 AM
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Is Conyers planning a trip to London to question some people?
Of course, that would be too much to expect something like that from our press. But in a Buzzflash interview, Conyers hinted that may be next on his agenda.

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/06/int05023.html

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"Well, the next thing that needs to be done is that we need to talk with some of the people in London in the Prime Minister’s top echelons of government and others around there in London about this whole subject matter. We need to not be pulling this off the Internet, reading it from newspaper reports. We need to do some face time with the people that are connected with it or know about it, or can add to our understanding of it. And then also inevitably we’re going to have to have hearings. There will need to be hearings in which this matter is talked about before the Judiciary Committee, and that we have witnesses of all persuasions to help shed some light on this. This is a critical part of the democratic process in a constitutional democracy. Remember, in Watergate we had hearings, and Sam Irvin conducted those hearings that began the process to focus. And remember as well that it started off as a little article in the Washington Post of about three or four sentences – a Watergate burglary. And then we went into hearings."
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melissinha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 09:50 AM
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1. Very wise, my friend
At this point, participation by most anyone in Washington is unthinkable... either because blind devotion or fear of the the power of the administration. We need to get to the sources of this incident whose political futures do not rely on Washington...think of Galloway..... The Britts want to save face with their consituents, too bad Phony Tony is so tight with Chimpboy.... But I think COnyers has the right idea to get this started and to get testimonies that are irrefutable and hopefully will be a catalyst for a REAL investigation.
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LunaC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 12:21 PM
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2. I'm getting concerned about his safety
All this talk about hearings must have the WH worried since they have no viable defense. The easiest way to kill the hearings is to kill the messenger and call it a day.

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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 12:22 PM
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3. I'm thinking the same thing
Conyers needs to watch out, they'll do anything to cover themseleves.
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