The Downing Street Memo, 2002

2002 The Downing Street memo: sometimes described by critics of the 2003 Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", it contains the minutes of a secret meeting, on July 23, 2002, among United Kingdom government, defence and intelligence figures, discussing the build-up to the war.

A typed replica of the memo was printed in The Sunday Times on May 1, 2005, and is available in full on Wikisource. There have been repeated requests for President George Bush to respond to allegations based on the document from the media and from a contingent of 122 United States Congressmen, led by John Conyers ...