Comments on: Dougie Feith Visits HJC

By: selise

selise — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:48:31 +0000

if you could give me some hints on what you are looking for (who said, when was it said, and any exact words you can recall), i’ll give it a try too.

i haven’t used this new transcript function much and it would be a useful test.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:43:03 +0000

Thanks, Selise. This link on cspan does work unlike the link on their front page.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:43:51 +0000

Can anyone get the Feith testimony that’s on the cspan website to play? I’ve tried twice and it won’t play. I’m starting to wonder about this testimony because cspan said it was going to broadcast this hearing on cspan this morning at 4 a.m. I set my alarm to watch the hearing but I didn’t get up until 5 a.m. At 5 a.m. the banking hearing was on cspan, not the Feith hearing. According to the cspan video on their website the hearing should have been 3 hours long so they evidently did not rerun the Feith hearing at 4 a.m. or it would have still been on at 5 a.m. when I tuned in. I’m starting to wonder if there was something in this hearing that someone doesn’t want us to see again.

http://www.c-span.org/

By: skdadl

skdadl — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:13:39 +0000

That worked for me, PC/firefox, and thanks very much for the lesson, selise.

The transcript experience is odd, though — I couldn’t figure out how to keep it from scrolling itself back to the beginning over and over again, which made searching a li’l difficult. I tried but I could not find the passage, and yet I know I watched and heard it. Argh.

By: selise

selise — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:30:30 +0000

it only works for hearings that are covered by c-span, but there is now a way to get a transcript from them.

1. load the c-span archive webpage for the hearing:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/.....d=206039-1

2. under the “watch flash video” button enter something in the search box and click on the “search” button.

3. in the popup window click on the “show transcript button”

4. the transcript will show up in an embedded scroll box. i can’t copy the text from this page, but it is available to me when i use “view source”

ymmv - this is all on a mac using safari.

By: kspena

kspena — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:50:38 +0000

Both today’s and June 18th’s hearings are also here

http://c-span.org/Default.aspx

By: BoxTurtle

BoxTurtle — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:38:20 +0000

(But why is it so hard to find the transcripts?)

Because they don’t want you to find them. I spent some time looking myself before I begged for the link.

Boxturtle (And I do search and retrieval for a living)

By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:33:02 +0000

I don’t know about a transcript but the link to the video is here:

http://judiciary.house.gov/hea.....61808.html

and other hearings here:

http://judiciary.house.gov/hea.....ation.html

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:25:51 +0000

”Presuming guilt” seems to be a favorite neocon attribute, except when it comes to friendly corporations and obstructers of justice. I think it was Ed Meese, one of Reagan’s Attorney Generals, who said that the police wouldn’t arrest anyone who wasn’t guilty.

Neocons aren’t much interested in recognizing human frailty, except where exploiting it makes money, or in requiring the government to prove its suspicions before it deprives someone of their freedom.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:19:10 +0000

I’m trying to find a transcript of the HJC hearing, which was 18 June, I believe, but I am hopeless at this. I’m just an amateur alien, and anyway I plead training in literature. Who could have ever predicted that I would be chasing down a transcript from the House Judiciary subcommittee on anything? (But why is it so hard to find the transcripts?)