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HuffPost Live: Freedom of the Press Foundation crowdfunding for Bradley Manning trial stenographer

HuffPost: Transcripts of Bradley Manning's trial have been heavily guarded and out of public reach. Alyona chats with Freedom of the Press Foundation about their efforts to raise money to hire a court reporter for the Bradley Manning trial. Read below the fold...

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Full transcript of 4/17/13 Senate Independent Foreclosure Review and National Mortgage Settlement hearing, part II

Senate hearing video here, length approximately 1-1/2 hours (hearing starts at about 19:45)

Previous week's foreclosure review hearing (Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee: "Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants") transcript is here

Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
Housing, Transportation and Community Development Subcommittee
Hearing: Helping Homeowners Harmed by Foreclosures: Ensuring Accountability and Transparency in Foreclosure Reviews, Part II
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 10 AM - 12 PM
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Full transcript of 4/11/13 Senate Independent Foreclosure Review hearing

Hearing video here

Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee

Hearing: Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants
Thursday, April 11, 2013, 10 AM - 12 PM Read below the fold...

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"And you're not going to tell the homeowners?" Elizabeth Warren to Fed and OCC, Senate hearing highlights

Elizabeth Warren, yesterday:

Hearing: Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection

Hearing info here.

The 2-1/2 hour hearing video is here.

Two videos, with transcripts, below: Read below the fold...

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Sunshine Week transcript! HuffPost Live Panel: Least Transparent Ever?

The self-proclaimed "most transparent Administration in history" just rejected more FOIA requests than ever, a 22% increase. Just how transparent is this White House?

This is my last Sunshine Week transcript, and this one is notable for the spectacle of watching former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor effortlessly turn questions of substance into answers of nerf. And he's so nice! Who could be mad? Read below the fold...

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Sunshine Week transcript! Previous winners speak at Sam Adams Awards

Ray McGovern introduces the previous winners of the esteemed Sam Adams Award for celebrated Whistleblowers.

The Oxford Union in January hosted the Sam Adams Awards for Integrity in Intelligence, where this year American Tom Fingar won the award for overseeing the 2007 NIE Estimate on Iran. 2010 winner Julian Assange spoke by video link, see transcript here.

Previous winners also spoke, including former British ambassador and 2005 winner Craig Murray. When Oxford Union finally posted a YouTube of their speeches last week, Murray embedded it in a blog post, Of This I Am Proud. Read below the fold...

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Look, Romney's Failure To Disclose Is a Disqualifier

For me this is simple. We have a giant problem in this country. It's the elephant in the room! We're a Democracy on the edge. We're in great danger of transitioning to a plutocracy: a society, economy and polity controlled by the rich. Read below the fold...

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Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy

This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.

Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and so on, but it seems like there has been a relative lull in its activity level. This is fine; you can't stay cranked all the way up to 10 all the time. A little pause to regroup, rethink and recharge is a good thing. There is a chance that the some occupations that emerge might have a very different character than the one that began to recede from public consciousness towards the end of last year, though. Read below the fold...

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Opacity and creeping exclusion at Occupy

Occupy has seemed to be in a bit of a winter hibernation. There are still encampments, meetings, decisions, protests, and so on, but it seems like there has been a relative lull in its activity level. This is fine; you can't stay cranked all the way up to 10 all the time. A little pause to regroup, rethink and recharge is a good thing. There is a chance that the some occupations that emerge might have a very different character than the one that began to recede from public consciousness towards the end of last year, though. Read below the fold...

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The Only Way Around All That Money

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Joseph M. Firestone and Nancy Bordier begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting

We think most people agree that money has corrupted our politics. Some even think that we now live in a Plutocracy, and not in a Democracy, and that both parties are corrupted and now represent only the financial oligarchy. So, the central issue of our time is how can we break its hold? How can we overcome the influence of money in politics and make our political system more responsive to most Americans once again? Read below the fold...

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The Pneumatics of Washington DC

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Defining Transparency Down

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Obama refuses to declassify records that were slated to become declassified

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Boston Globe:

President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials.

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Positive Upbeat Tuesday Blogging: Punch Clock Project

So it doesn't look like the newly empowered Dems and their rabid vanguard in the netroots are going to be able to end the war this week. Rather than fume, stew, or drink myself silly, I thought I'd see if I could direct some energy towards a worthy project that serves all our liberal purposes. The Punch Clock Project sounds like a great idea, and I think we should bring it back to the conversation. Read below the fold...

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