7.01.2005

Blair Confirms Downing Street Memo's Authenticity

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The Prime Minister has confirmed the authenticity of a Downing Street memo in which Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, tells Mr Blair that the Bush administration was "fixing" the intelligence and facts about Saddam Hussein's regime to back up a decision that had been taken to invade Iraq as early as July 2002.
Elsewhere, we're up to 52 members of Congress requesting FOI information on the Downing Street Memo and Bush's credibility related to same.