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Michigan Democrat John Conyers has saturated the blogosphere with posts about the infamous "Downing Street memo" on the run-up to the Iraq war. Now he is recruiting bloggers as foot soldiers in his own public-relations war over the memo.

The goal of Conyers' latest offensive, which he mentions at ConyersBlog and Daily Kos, is to create "a timeline of everything we know about the fixation with war in Iraq, the manipulation of intelligence, and the deliberate misrepresentations made both to the Congress and to the public."

He asked bloggers to let him know what key dates and events should be included in the timeline. As of early Monday afternoon, the request had generated nearly 500 comments on the two blogs combined. "I think it's brilliant of you to use Daily Kos as a think tank," one visitor to ConyersBlog wrote. "Good goin'!"

In another item at The Huffington Post yesterday, Conyers quickly responded to the news that White House adviser Karl Rove was a source for Time magazine's Matt Cooper in the controversy over the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Conyers suggested that the news proves President Bush has abandoned his 2000 pledge to "restore honesty and dignity to the White House." And he joined the chorus of liberal bloggers who are chastising the White House press corps for not asking questions about Rove's role. "Not a word about the disgusting hypocrisy of an administration that came to office promising to 'change the tone' in Washington now attacking a critic through his spouse," Conyers wrote.

UPDATE: In a follow-up post, Conyers invited his readers to "compare and contrast" the statements of Vice President Richard Cheney in 2000 and White House press secretary Scott McClellan today.

Posted by dglover at July 11, 2005 08:45 PM

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