Redemption, anyone?

Thank God for the checks-and-balances system of government here in the US. The US Congress may have been totally supine for far too long in 2001-2003 in the face of the administration’s intemperate rush toward war. But now, finally, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal seems to have forced many veteran leaders in the U.S. Senate to start questioning the Bushies’ assertions–and more importantly, their policies– regarding at least this one crucial aspect of the so-called “Global War on Terror”.
Who knows how far this process will go before it ends?
I’ve been cruising round the web a little bit this afternoon looking for transcripts of the many important hearingsthat have been held on Iraq in both houses of Congress. It would be kinda nice, since we taxpayers pay the huge salaries of both the congressional representatives and the administration personnel involved in these hearings, if the transcripts of the whole sessions could be made available in timely fashion, at no cost, and in a well-organized way to the US public…
But no. I looked at the websites for the Armed Services Committees at both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives websites. No luck. Then I went to “Defenselink”, the central website for the DOD. There, they had the texts of the prepared statements made by the various DOD luminaries who have been called to testify in recent weeks. But they notably didn’t have transcripts for the all-important Q&A period afterwards.
I did find one possibly fruitful source…

This is the Iraq transcripts service of “Washington in Depth”, a service of Associated Press.
I went there today and found five sets of transcripts available there in full-text format. There were:

• Today’s Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing with Generals Abizaid, Sanchez, and Miller… Talk about timely!
• Two SASC hearings from Tuesday, May 11, including one that had Cambone in it.
• Two hearings from Friday, May 7 that featured Rumsfeld, Myers, and some of the other top brass. One of these was with the SASC and the other with the House
  ASC.

So far, so good. But how about all those myriad of other really juicy hearings that have been held on Capitol Hill in recent days? How about Wolfie squirming yesterday in front of one of the committees?
Oh, I just found that one, through the WaPo. But it seems a bit random: even though this transcript was also produced by the same folks who do the “Washington in Depth” service, WID didn’t have it on that website I linked to above…. Do you think that’s because it was a hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee, not the ASC?
Over at the Foreign Relations Committee’s own website you can get some good info about their hearings, including the texts of the prepared statements that are presented to them. But once again, they don’t give you the transcripts of the Q&A.
Actually, today, they’ve been having Tony Cordesman, Larry Diamond, and a couple of other interesting-looking people testifying, and the testimony from those two looks fairly interesting…
But still, my point question remains. Does any of my readers know of any website that offers one-stop shopping for full transcripts of congressional hearings on international affairs in a timely and preferably well-organized way?
Please??
Oh, and the title of this piece? I bet you were wondering about that… It is from somethng low down in Gen. Abizaid’s testimony,where he noted that the “new” detainee camp at Abu Ghraib will be called… “Camp Redemption”. I kid you not.
(If you read the whole transcript there, btw, it seems quite clear that Abizaid is not totally the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Oh well, there it is.)