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Report | The Constitution in Crisis

By House Judiciary Committee Minority Staff

 

Tuesday 20 December 2005

 

The Downing Street minutes and deception, manipulation, torture,

retribution, and coverups in the Iraq war.

 

 

 

Executive Summary

 

This Minority Report has been produced at the request of Representative

John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. He made

this request in the wake of the President's failure to respond to a letter

submitted by 122 Members of Congress and more than 500,000 Americans in July

of this year asking him whether the assertions set forth in the Downing

Street Minutes were accurate. Mr. Conyers asked staff, by year end 2005, to

review the available information concerning possible misconduct by the Bush

Administration in the run up to the Iraq War and post-invasion statements

and actions, and to develop legal conclusions and make legislative and other

recommendations to him.

 

In brief, we have found that there is substantial evidence the

President, the Vice President and other high ranking members of the Bush

Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the

decision to go to war with Iraq; misstated and manipulated intelligence

information regarding the justification for such war; countenanced torture

and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and other legal violations in

Iraq; and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of their

Administration.

 

Full Report: www.truthout.org/3.122005ConRes.pdf