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We were reading Maru the Crankpot the other day, and we noticed they were wondering about why the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs doesn't have a transcript of George Galloway's testimony to the committee. We went to the site, and asked ourselves the same question. Then, we tried to ask them ourselves:
FROM: The Funny Farm EMAIL: tomg@funnyfarmonline.org
MESSAGE: I was looking on your web site for documentation on these hearings. I notice that there is no transcript of the testimony of George Galloway. Can you please tell me when you are planning to put a PDF document together for this witness' testimony, and linking to it on your web site? |
Funny thing, though...
Reporting-MTA: dns; senmail1.senate.gov
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost
Arrival-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 hh:mm:ss -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; webcenter@govt-aff.senate.gov |
Undaunted, our intrepid news staff tried once again to talk to this Senate Committe. Especially since their web site now says that Mr Galloway did not submit a statement. Really? Even though, also according to the site, PANEL THREE WITNESSES DID NOT TESTIFY TODAY BUT WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO APPEAR AT A LATER DATE? And even though those same witnesses have PDF documents containing their testimony available at the web site?
We submitted this to the senate comments page:
I was looking on your web site for documentation on these hearings. I notice that there is no transcript of the testimony of George Galloway. I also notice that you state that Mr. Galloway did not submit a statement. I have seen a number of sites (most notably the Times of London) that have detailed the statement made by Mr. Galloway to the committee, but I was hoping that you could provide a complete transcript of both his remarks, as well as those of the committee during the time Mr. Galloway was delivering his sworn testimony to the committee. Can you please tell me if you are planning to put a PDF document together for this witness' testimony, and linking to it on your web site? |
Funny thing, though...
Reporting-MTA: dns; senmail1.senate.gov
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost
Arrival-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 hh:mm:ss -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; webcenter@govt-aff.senate.gov |
Apparently, some opinions are more equal than others...
We also took the liberty of emailing Mr. Galloway and asking him to provide a statement to the committe which containsed a transcript of his remarks to the committee:
SUBJECT: Your testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Mr. Galloway: First of all, thank you for speaking truth to power. I personally believe your statements, and that you have been unfairly scapegoated in this instance. Don't worry about it - this corrupt cabal is vainly thrashing about trying to cover up all of its' malfeasance, and you happened to be considered a convenient distraction from their latest cock up. Secondly, I have visited the online web site for the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and by an absolutely stunning turn of events, they seem to be unable to find a transcript of the hearing during the time you were delivering your sworn statement to them. There are a number of transcripts of your harangue of Senator Coleman, as well as a few detailing your conversations with a besotted hack unworthy of the position of journalist, but there is no record that I can find within the online community of the entirety of the utterances at that hearing. I was wondering if you would be interested in enlightening the esteemed politicians in Washington of the nature of your statements. They state that you did not submit a statement to the committee, and I thought you might be interested in making such a submission in the presence of an independent press. I was also wondering if someone in your offices would be able to expend the effort to find the missing transcript, provide it to me, and permit me to publish it online in order to show all what really happened. You could provide it to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, too, I suppose - but I would prefer that you also provide it to an independent agent in order to ensure that it is viewed by all. Any assistance that you can provide me in these manners would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, (: Tom :) |
Our limited experience, ability, and relative effort produced no source for the complete transcript of the hearing (which is what we asked the senate committee for). There are a lot of links to the opening statement from Mr. Galloway, but we wanted to check out the whole magilla, so to speak. The audio and video over at Crooks and Liars is Mr. Galloway's statement only - not all of the back and forth, or Coleman's lying and inflammatory introduction. Or his snarky wussing out and dismissal of the truth once he was forced to listen to it. That's what we wants to see. We'd prefer it if we could link to it and view it on the governmant's web site, but we're more than willing to post it ourselves if it comes to that.
Updates will be forthcoming as they are warranted.
Posted by (: Tom :) at May 21, 2005 11:04 AMWussy, wussy wusses! The whole lot of them! Good luck with that. Scuttlebutt is, a lot of news services have also declined to post Galloway's brilliant flame...
When do we get to start using the F word?
Posted by: teh l4m3 at May 21, 2005 05:09 PM
Tom
Wusses doesn't cover this bunch slimy, lying gutless hypocritical cowards. Get a petition demanding that the site be updated carrying ALL of Galloway's testimony and I will sign up ASAP.
Posted by: hippy waldo at May 23, 2005 08:47 AMThe complete transcript and video of Galloway at the Senate is at Information Clearing House here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8869.htm
Thanks, Natalie! i will update the post with your new information.
And I am really glad (cough) to see how evasive and determined to get their soundbites the esteemed (cough) senators were in trying to pin blame for the Oil for Food scandal on Mr. Galloway and evade the blame for it themselves.
Posted by: (: Tom :) at May 25, 2005 10:24 AM