{"id":910,"date":"2004-05-07T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/prisoner_abuse_hearing\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T18:21:49","slug":"prisoner_abuse_hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/prisoner_abuse_hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Abuse Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been loosely monitoring the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on Iraqi prisoner abuse this afternoon.<br \/>\nOne of the interesting things about this hearing is that, in contrast to typical senate committee hearings where only 2-8 members are present, this time you get to see <i>everyone<\/i>.  Ah, the power of live cable news channel broadcasting.<br \/>\nThe full roster of examiners may partially explain why I haven&#8217;t found this session particularly informative.  Since there&#8217;s so many questioners, the senators are only getting five minutes a shot.  And once they get through the mandatory spiel on how outraged they are about this incident, that leaves time for one question with little or no follow up&#8211;no a very efficient fact finding format.<br \/>\nBut it does allow each of the senators the opportunity for a good TV sound byte.  And that&#8217;s perhaps the most important aspect of this exercise, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/prisoner_abuse_hearing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Prisoner Abuse Hearing\"><p>I&#8217;ve been loosely monitoring the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on Iraqi prisoner abuse this afternoon. One of the interesting things about this hearing is that, in contrast to typical senate committee hearings where only 2-8 members are present, this time you get to see everyone. Ah, the power of live cable news channel broadcasting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}