[Sosfbay-discuss] Please call John Conyers the Chair of the House Judiciary Committe

[Merriam Kathaleen]

Hi All,

House Judiciary Chair, John Conyers has begun investigations on the 
allegations in Ron Suskind's book, "TheWay of the World:  A Story of 
Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism."  Conyers is reviewing 
allegations that senior Bush Administration officials ordered the 
forgery and dissemination of false intelligence documents about Iraq.  
Conyers was on Democracy Now with Ron Suskind last Thursday Aug.14 and 
stated "I'm calling everybody back.
We've got a huge amount of work to engage in."  Everyone listening to 
him thought he meant he was calling the Judiciary Committee members back 
from recess to have a investigative hearing on the allegations.  I 
certainly thought Conyers was saying that.  I started to have my doubts 
about what Conyers meant when on Friday, the day after the Democracy Now 
program, one of our SVIC members spotted our own House Judiciary 
Committee member, Zoe Lofgren, at the San Jose Farmers Market.  I was 
puzzled, if Conyers had called back the committee and Zoe is a member of 
the committee why was she still in San Jose on recess.  I called Conyers 
office to find out what he was talking about on the Demoocracy Now 
program.  What I found out was that the "everybody" he called back 
referred to the House Judiciary staff.  I talked to one of the staff and 
was told it was the staff he called back from recess and they indeed are 
investigating the allegations.  I was told that they are doing the 
preliminary investigation in order to have all the information for the 
Judiciary Committee members when they get back to Washington the first  
week of September.

Once I got over my disappointment that the Judiciary Committee was not 
in session and investigating the allegations I then brightened up.  
Conyers having the Judiciary staff investigating the allegations 
actually is very promising.  After all it was the Judiciary staff in 
1974 that prepared the 65 page report on Presidential Impeachment, the 
report that played a major role in initiating impeachment against Nixon 
and Zoe Lofgren was a Judiciary staff member at the time and helped 
write the report.

Please call John Conyers office and tell them you are pleased that the 
staff is investigating the allegations in Ron Suskind's book and that 
you look forward to the Judiciary Committee holding hearings on the 
investigations.

Conyers office # is 202-225-5126

Also call the Judiciary Committee staff and tell them the same message.  
The # is 202-225-3951

Thanks,

Merriam Kathaleen
Silicon Valley Impeachment Coaltion
svimpeach.org