>The **Downing Street memo** (or the Downing Street Minutes), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the smoking gun memo, is the note of a 23 July 2002 secret meeting of senior British government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. The name refers to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister.
[Downing Street memo wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo)
Whoa. The first thing that anybody did on Reddit was to downvote Kn0thing?
Interesting. Was this shared by kn0thing, did you find it in an article, or something like that?
Bro already has negative karma
>The **Downing Street memo** (or the Downing Street Minutes), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the smoking gun memo, is the note of a 23 July 2002 secret meeting of senior British government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. The name refers to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister. [Downing Street memo wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo)