diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016622.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016622.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dc7101756c29b350e2d6d1dabaec6d61f08c9f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016622.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +the truck he was out with had 2 other leaf blowers on the truck that he could +identify as being over 65dBA but he only tested the one they were using and wrote +a violation for that one. Van Buren asked about the testing method and Mr. Case # 08-2520, 165 Brazilian Ave., Richard Lynn +Violation of Chapter 10, Section 10-45 (i) of the Town of Palm Beach Code of +Ordinances, if any dog attacks and causes severe injury or death to any human or +domestic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016623.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016623.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b45435a6524ba29dca7e0b582260fea2c77a529b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016623.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +Sgt. Krauel continued his presentation remarking that once Duke had been found +"potentially dangerous" by Animal Care and Control, there had been another +attack but due to an administrative error by Animal Care and Control in failing to +document their records appropriately, Duke was classified as "potentially +dangerous" again. After the last attack on May 11, 2008, Duke was taken into custody by Animal +Care and Control and after a hearing, was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016624.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016624.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..abc19393c09472529bb51031f08499518a3e6708 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016624.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +dogs are not in the area. He said he was bitten by Duke a couple of years ago. He said he has been friends with Dr. Bobby Goodnough said he was jogging in the area and the dog lunged at him, +causing him to have to dive through a 12 foot hedge to get away from it. Laura Klein, 130 Seaspray Ave., said she had lived here for 12 years, having +moved from Washington, D.C. for a sense of security. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016625.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016625.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e3ac432673f449e1eb993ef22b7d7894c657ded --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016625.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +Merola went into detail about the requirements of 10-45 and said Dr. Then the letter of June 20" came, requiring Dr. Merola read subsection (h) into the record +and said the Code Enforcement Board did not have any jurisdiction over +subsection (i) as subsection (h) just mentioned (d) through (g). The Town filed a +lawsuit and he and Mr. Judge Hoy gave them a hearing at 1:30 +p.m. on Tuesday where it will be determined whether the dog is a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016626.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016626.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9295a041dc934c93d618973486debf6b3b098df7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016626.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +$150.00 and a fine of $250.00 a day to start on June 19, 2008 if compliance is not +achieved by June 18, 2008. Ballentine asked for clarification on the motion and was advised by Mr. Randolph that it would be a finding of non-compliance of Chapter 10, Section 10- +6, administrative costs of $150.00 and a compliance date of July 18, 2008 with a +fine to be considered at the next meeting if compliance was not achieved. Duemler said she believed that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016627.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016627.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5afbaf188d572a7a76494fb3f327da880aeaf054 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016627.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +would be requesting a separate fine of $250.00 a day for non-compliance and Sgt. Hoffman asked about the administrative costs and Sgt. Krauel said +the Town was only asking for one. County Road, Trump Properties, LLC +Violation of Chapter 18, Section 18-205 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of +Ordinances, the Architectural Commission may attach conditions to any approval +it grants. Lead Code Enforcement Officer Walton advised this case would be heard... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016628.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016628.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..045583621251ca7216004bd57b12aaa49dbef69b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016628.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +A. Case # 08-2432, Beachfront Vista Property, Nightingale Beach Club Association +Violation of Chapter 134, Section 134-1472 (3) of the Town of Palm Beach Code +of Ordinances, no additional walls, fences, hedges or other structures or growth +shall be erected or be grown eastwardly of Ocean Boulevard to a height greater +than four (4) feet above the surface of the Ocean Boulevard. +(Ms. Vanneck would be a voting member in this case) +Lead Code... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016629.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016629.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2eff748c70037e8593da5dc0d82087fa37c8ff51 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016629.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +noted that the street lights in Palm Beach do not go off during turtle nesting +season. He said a field permit for trimming of the sea grapes at the Nightingale +Beach Club Association was not recommended during the nesting season. He said he believed the Board +should recommend to the Town Council that they remove this section of the Code, +given the current environmental regime, especially when one considers the public +relations downside of fighting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016630.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016630.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c7943e258273d247ecf05a1143888b0bcfa90738 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016630.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +Mr. Vanneck asked for clarification on what the motion was and Mr. Walton +advised the motion was that the sea grapes must be cut after turtle season, by +November 7, 2008 and if they were not cut by that date, a $250.00 a day fine +would commence on November 8, 2008 and continue until compliance was +achieved. Walton said it would be to +the Nightingale Trail Beach Club Association. Maxey said every property +owner on Nightingale Trail was and there... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016631.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016631.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e89ae9adc65931e23a200f70da561981e9d005a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016631.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +the Town Council's power and authority, if persuaded, to look into an ordinance +and suggested Mr. Case # 08-2508, 227 Brazilian Ave., 2F, Hillen J. Smith +Violation of Chapter 18, Section 18-241 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of +Ordinances, building permits required to construct, install, repair or alter any +building or building system +Lead Code Enforcement Officer said Mr. Smith was found in violation, assessed +$150.00 in administrative costs and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016632.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016632.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d17ab939fc43c86084df36bab1fb01bd5ad6a9b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016632.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +ASSESS A FINE OF $250.00, RETROACTIVE TO JULY 17, 2008 IF +COMPLIANCE WAS NOT ACHIEVED +SECONDED BY MS. Inlet Drive, The Landfall Group, +Violation of Chapter 18, Section 18-242, Subsection 104.5.1.6, medium projects, +all new or remodel construction projects 4000 sq. ft, to 8,999 sq. ft. under roof be +allowed 22 months +Lead Code Enforcement Officer Walton said in October, 2007, Ajax Equity LLC +was found in violation of going over the construction... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016633.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016633.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c7f9bce37856ef352647562e5eb9b753367adfc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016633.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +have brought them to November 2007 and they would have gotten additional time +for Hurricane Wilma which would have brought them to December. If they were +under the new Code, they would not be before the Board today and may not have +a fine at all. The Board has gotten their attention +and they would ask for a significant reduction in the fine. Walton said they had been given 23 months due to the hurricanes +and they were 5 months and 9 days beyond... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016634.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016634.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebef9389c8cb1a358574412b3744cfd005b0e62d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016634.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +a day but he would review it. Walton reviewed the transcript and noted that it +showed $125.00 a day but the Board order specified $250.00 a day and he would +have to do further research. Fried advised he could make a motion to postpone the matter to the next +meeting and have Mr. There was +additional discussion about the amount of the fine and Mr. HOFFMAN +MOTION PASSES +YES +YES +YES +NO +NO +YES +NO +4-3 +Case # 08-2302, 9 Via Vizcaya, Macari Building &... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016635.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016635.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a620f392ae1ec437b0d424f2b066fee7def14642 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016635.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Code Enforcement Board Meeting Minutes 07/17/08 +MOTION BY MS. She wanted to know if there was anything they could do as a Board in making a +suggestion to the Council about an ordinance that could address people not pulling +vermits because of the safety issues in terms of multi-family dwellings. Randolph if he had spoken to Mr. Elwell about the foreclosure action +being brought to the Board's area of responsibility as opposed to the Town Council. People are contacting Code Enforcement because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016636.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016636.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f0c275ce2cb11cae2958d642f452e52304f7cd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016636.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +TOWN OF PALM BEACH +Information for the Water Committee Meeting on January 29, 2009 +To: +Water Committee: +David A. Elwell, Town Manager +From: Sarah E. Hannah, Assistant Town Manager +Re: +Information Regarding Water Supply +Date: +January 23, 2009 +The following documents are attached for your review in preparation for the Water Committee +meeting on January 29 at 3 p.m.: +1. PowerPoint presentation from the City of West Palm Beach regarding the four options for +the Town's water supply and relationship... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016637.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016637.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b17b3818f3f070a5c69ff9fbe315d544e46ac04 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016637.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +NICORPORANCO +TOWN OF PALM BEACH +Town Manager's Office +FLORIDA +WATER COMMITTEE MEETING +TENTATIVE- +SUBJECT TO +REVISION +AGENDA +JANUARY 29, 2009 +3:00 P.M. The progress of this meeting may be monitored by visiting the Town's web site +(www.townofpalmbeach.com) and selecting "Live Agenda" or "Council Audio". If you +have questions relative to these two features, please contact the Office of Information +Systems (561) 227-6315. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL +II. ADJOURNMENT +Note: +Disabled persons who need... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016638.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016638.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df436fdcd4146605ddc266ede6f4b9f76ae8274f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016638.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +TOWN OF PALM BEACH +WATER COMMITTEE +CITY +(OWN +OF +INCORPORATEO +FLORID! THE TOWN ON +SOUTH +BEY +FLORIDA +Discussion of Future Plant Options +January 2009 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016638 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016639.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016639.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb4f84d57d5fec2bfc9b86245d2e97c827541d5e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016639.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +PRESENTATION AGENDA +• Competing Regulations +• Desalination Water Plant +• Floridan Water Plant +• Town Remains As Equal Customer +• Town Becomes Bulk Customer +• Next Steps +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016639 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016640.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016640.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5cd17a3696985b48031dd9724a4e43f537f36fc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016640.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +COMPETING REGULATIONS +Alternative +Water Supply +Water Use +Regulation +Water Supply +Planning +LocaF +Comprehensive +Planning +Natural +Systems +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016640 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016641.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016641.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..119470a43f87868ffcdcf1cbb97c6b141fcd24ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016641.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +DRAFT YEAR ROUND IRRIGATION RULE +Latest draft SFWMD language dated October 31, 2008. +• Public Hearing Scheduled for January 15th +40E-24.201 Year-Round Landscape Irrigation Conservation Measures. +(1) The year-round landscape irrigation conservation measures contained in this +chapter are applicable to all users as defined in subsection 40E-24.101/18M10), F.A.C.. +including permitted and exempt users under Chapter 40E-2, F.A.C., unless indicated +otherwise herein. These conservation measures +apply... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016642.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016642.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f89ba4633623557d10a7b675fd2c723207b09479 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016642.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +SUPPLY SOURCES +SURFACE WATER +SOURCES +Clear Lake +Existing +Infrastructure +Variable +Quality +Watering +Restrictions +Permitted +abelle +quiter +ni Aquifer +Lake +Okeechobee +/VUE +ABRI +wall +West Palm +Beach +Curiola +VAT +HI +Whorn Contin id Lone +Upper Floridan Aquiter +EAST +0 +400) +- 300 +500 + 700 +900 +1100 +Atlantic Ocean +Unlimited +Supply +Complex +Treatment +Consistent WQ +Greenhouse +Gases +Highest Cost +Middle Confining Unit +Lower Floridan Aquifer +Lower Contining Unit +Boulder... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016643.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016643.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..247cedfb3b7d9ff3744b7f9db4e689ae08fde2b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016643.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +DESALINATION PLANT OPTION +City Dedicates Seawater Plant for Town +• Town remains a customer of the City of West Palm +Beach +• Additional capital and operational costs to Town of +Palm Beach +Desalination plant located on City property +secure +reliable +sustainable +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016643 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016644.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016644.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f7bd067c1bccdc2ce09fc81c7b11902692d10efb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016644.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +WHY LOOK TO THE OCEAN? +• Sustainable drought-proof source of +water +• Concern for availability of fresh +surface water and groundwater +resources = regulatory pressure +• Decreasing costs due to technology +improvements +• Comparable costs to indirect potable +water reuse projects +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016644 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016645.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016645.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d4c2d9f4a8836ee64ac81b27ec9137a91406d769 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016645.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +TAMPA BAY DESALINATION FACILITY +• 25 mgd plant +• Co-located with +power plant +• 8.5-acres for WTP +• Provides 10% water +demand for region +Screening, filtration, +RO membranes, +chemical systems +AWS funding +provided +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016645 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016646.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016646.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25131fa86d6fd3768ca1636d2419d2dc54b428ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016646.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +DESALINATION PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM +Source +Pre-Treatment +Membranes +Residuals +Atlantic Ocean Raw Water +Intake Structure & Pump Station +Fine Screens +Coagulation & +Flocculation +Clarification +Microfiltration +Ultraviolet Light +Post-Treatment +Calcite +Contactor +Storage Tank +High Service +Pump Station +Chlorine +Caustic Soda +Fluoride +Carbon Dioxide +Calcium Carbonate +Corrosion Inhibitor +Backwash +Equalization +Gravity Sludge +Thickening +Dewatering +Landfill +Cartridge... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016647.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016647.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20ab34c2465ae3a61f62d4e742ef8b8ad53112ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016647.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +PRE-TREATMENT IS KEY TO SUCCESS +Protect the Membranes +• Screens remove shells +creatures, wood and debris +greater than ¼ inch +• Heavier solids settled out via +flocculation and clarification +• Smaller solids filtered via +microfiltration membranes +• Ultraviolet light controls biological +activity and fouling +Control scale formation by +adjusting pH and using +antiscalants +Fine screens +Clarification Basin +UV units +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016647 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016648.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016648.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90f622f41c70651ccc9d628392a4469aaa697a60 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016648.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +SPECIALIZED MEMBRANES FOR TREATMENT +RO membranes allow water +particles (dissolved ions) to pass +through tiny screens, while +blocking salts +• Highly specialized technology +Large amounts of power required +to "push" water through the +membranes via pressure +• Pre-treatment important to +protect costly membranes +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016648 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016649.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016649.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d54e9363e3bae82d651196f15735b2531bf3060 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016649.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +SOLIDS HANDLING REQUIRED +Desalination produces "waste" streams that require +materials to be disposed via landfill. Debris removed by screens +(shells, wood, etc) must be +landfilled +• Clarification process & +microfiltration backwash solids +are thickened, dewatered, and +sent to the landfill for disposal +Transportation of solids increase facility operations cost +and result with a larger carbon footprint. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016650.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016650.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d388958b5245dc4681274438c51c643a24d62705 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016650.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +DESALINATION PLANT LAYOUT +FUEL TANKS +ADMINISTRATION +CLARIFIERS +POTABLE +WATER +- GENERATORS +PUMPS +FLOCCULATION +MICROTULTRA +FILTRATION +REVERSE +OSMOSIS +FINE SCREENS +RAW WATER +TANKS +C02 +STORAGE +CHEMICAL FEED +CONTACTOR +SOLIDS HANDLING +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016650 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016651.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016651.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..932a364443aa03c14c50a1fbb4fceffb835bcdbb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016651.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +DESALINATION PLANT ISSUES +• 25 mgd facility required to produce 10 mgd potable water. +• Approximately 10 acres required for infrastructure. +• Complex treatment processes. +• Brine by-product waste disposal via deep injection well +(ocean outfalls no longer permitted for WTPs). +• Dewatered sludge must be disposed at landfill. +• Highly energy intensive to operate. +• Not necessarily exempt from proposed year-round water +restrictions drafted by SFWMD +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016651 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016652.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016652.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8bc2430c69a8b77359c89c61c70555bbd8ffd603 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016652.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +DESALINATION PLANT COSTS +Cost Estimate for 10 mgd Desalination Plant +Site Work +Raw Water Intake, Pumping, Piping, and Fine Screens +Coagulation, Flocculation, Clarification +Pretreatment Transfer Pumping +Microfiltration +Ultraviolet Light +Chemical Treatment +Reverse Osmosis Membrane System +Post Treatment Chemical Systems +Ground Storage Tanks +High Service Pumping +Residuals Handling +Administration & Laboratory Building +Brine Disposal Injection Well +Dedicated Water Transmission Piping +Conceptual... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016653.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016653.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2107bcd8cd7c9d4f52fbe0ce89de94dd59b1a83d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016653.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +FLORIDAN AQUIFER WATER PLANT OPTION +City Dedicates Floridan Plant for Town of Palm Beach +• Town remains a customer of the City of West Palm +Beach +• Additional capital and operational costs to Town of +Palm Beach +Low Pressure Reverse Osmosis plant located on City +property +secure +reliable +sustainable +water +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016653 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016654.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016654.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3317db6b8cb28e7524e02ce65578c50543baa18a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016654.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +WHY LOOK TO THE FLORIDAN AQUIFER? +• Reliable and drought-proof source +located approximately 1,200 feet +below ground surface +• Relatively stable water quality +seasonally, but geographically +variable +• Reduces demands on water for the +Everglades +• Significantly less energy intensive +than desalination processes +• Landfill transportation and disposal +costs not applicable +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016654 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016655.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016655.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e93e3e0c6d481fefaf152789bb0f19bb630c724 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016655.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +LOCAL UTILITIES ARE USING FLORIDAN AQUIFER +• Palm Beach County +• Jupiter +• Deerfield Beach +• Broward County +• Highland Beach +• Fort Myers +Palm Coast +• Marion County +• St. John's County +• Hollywood +• Miramar +• Florida Keys +Palm Beach County's 10 mgd Lake Region WTP +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016655 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016656.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016656.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a69ab67c5fc598236af2d881266b478b83b449e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016656.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +LOW PRESSURE RO PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM +Source +Pre-Treatment +Membranes +Post-Treatment +Distribution +Submersible Pump Compo +Vent +Casing +Column +Power +Notor/Pump +Assembly +Wells +Cartridge +Filters +Feed +Pumps +LPRO +Membranes +Degassi- +fication +Transfer +Clearwell +Storage & +High +Service +Sulfuric Acid +Scale Inhibitor +Cleaning +System +Chlorine +Caustic Soda +Fluoride +Corrosion Inhibitor +Deep Injection +Well +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016656 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016657.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016657.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a06cd8a1df167eaf49ef309ee2ec7e8cfd041806 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016657.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +TREATMENT PROCESSES +• SOURCE - wells can be located near the plant. No +existing users to cause interference (today). +• PRE-TREATMENT- disposable 5 micron cartridge +filters, pH adjustment, & scale inhibitor. +• MEMBRANES - Low Pressure Reverse Osmosis +elements require less power to push water thru screens. +• POST-TREATMENT - hydrogen sulfide removal with +odor control, disinfection, pH adjustment, blending. +• DISTRIBUTION - connect to existing water main +network without subaqueous crossings. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016658.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016658.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..259784a56264eca1ff4b63ea495e332f96a03dcb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016658.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +FLORIDAN PLANT LAYOUT +WELLS +STORAGE +TANKS +CLEARWELL +DEGASSIFIERS +SCRUBBER +WELLS +GOL +DIESEL FUEL +FLUORIDE +ORTHOPHOSPLATE +SODIUM AMEROXIDE +SEEIM EPOCHLORITE +SUEFURIC ACID +HIGH SERVICE +PUMP BUILDING +DEEP INJECTION +WELL +GENERATORS +WELLS +PLANT LIFT +STATION +MEMBRANE PROCESS +BUILDING +WELLS +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016658 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016659.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016659.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59d84a1b90c2baae651f353e15c8a3b7d89dfb03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016659.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +LOCATION +ELORIDAN +SUPPLY SITE +21.50+ ACRES +FLORIDAN SUPPLY +WATER MAIN +EXISTING - +WATER +TREATMENT +PLANT SITE +CONNEC +TO EXISTING +WATER MAIN +The Floridan Aquifer wells are not restricted with respect +to specific location in that no other production wells exists +today near the City's WTP. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016660.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016660.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ebc926868c6503421e3ed48deaa1dd165f93e10 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016660.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +FLORIDAN AQUIFER PLANT ISSUES +• Floridan Aquifers can be used for both Aquifer Storage +and Recovery and source water +• Potential increased energy costs associated with lifting +water and impacts to adjacent users +Potential for decline in water quality over time +~ Some pumping wells become saltier (up-coning of +more saline water from below or laterally along coast) +~ Membrane design and periodic replacement +~ Blending with Surficial Aquifer water +• Estimated 125% of raw water to meet treated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016661.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016661.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d63d35d5b1752f5c7cfb57941c423bc5fbf5945 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016661.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +FLORIDAN AQUIFER PLANT COSTS +Cost Estimate for 10 mgd Floridan Plant +Site Work & Site Electrical +$ +Raw Water Wells & Piping +$ +Pretreatment System +$ +Membrane Building w/LPRO system +$ +Chemical Feed Systems +$ +Yard Piping +$ +Clearwell +$ +Transfer Pump Station +$ +High Service Pump Station +$ +Ground Storage Tanks +$ +Brine Disposal Injection Well +$ +Dedicated Water Transmission Piping +$ +Conceptual Cost +$ +General Requirements (2%) +$ +Construction Mark-up (3%) +$ +Mobilization (2%) +$ +Contingency... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016662.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016662.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..051a4ee72a70f8c262e5e2758dc4ff1cdec8403c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016662.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +TOWN REMAINS AS EQUAL CUSTOMER +• Town subject to same water restrictions imposed on +water supply for the entire service area +A portion of the City's water supply IS +supplemented with reclaimed water +• Town subject to same rates and debt service as other +customers. +• Town's demand met with City's plant +Pilot testing membrane treatment of surface water now +secure +reliable +sustainable +water +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016662 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016663.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016663.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f7499b160b70878e50f4a498a907bce3f25cff5d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016663.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +TOWN BECOMES A BULK CUSTOMER +• Town sets its own rate structure +• New Bulk Service Interlocal +Agreement Required +• Town to become a retail utility +service provider +• Study on-going by City's rate +consultant regarding options for +setting a bulk user rate +CUSTOMER +SERVICE +FINANCE +OPERATIONS +The City evaluated finished water demand data for all +Town of Palm Beach customers. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016664.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016664.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7df0d00c3acb7f197ac155a44658c6cc0aa0be4c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016664.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +SUMMARY +Option +Desalination Plant +Dedicated Floridan Plant +Bulk Customer +Remain as Equal +Capital Costs Retail Costs +$160,500,000 TBD(+) +$80,250,000 TBD(+) +N/A N/A(+) +N/A Current Rates N/A +Bulk Costs +N/A +N/A +TBD +secure +reliable +sustainable +water +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016664 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016665.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016665.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0df724d6fcbf26c2c324c9a8ec50ff213a54ce32 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016665.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +NEXT STEPS +• SFWMD Rulemaking Outcome +• Determine City's Future Water System - Long-Term +Improvements +Develop Bulk Rates +secure +reliable +sustainable +water +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016665 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016666.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016666.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b63bdb23bbc638b7b03e9c2be22f75c82dc6c24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016666.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +HIT OF THE TONG +ICORPORATEO +H8t 11 tià +FLORIDE +QUESTIONS? THE TOWN OR +SOUT +1955 +BEY +FLORIDA +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016666 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016667.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016667.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a450b3d27dcc91de50b15fa4fa52ec2a5eb220ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016667.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +TOWN OF PALM BEACH +MEMORANDUM +TO: +FROM: +RE: +DATE: +Paul Brazil, Director of Public Works +James M. Bowser, Town Engineer fors +Private Irrigation Water Supply Systems +January 22, 2009 +Town staff was asked to look into what it would cost for a "typical" Palm Beach homeowner to construct +their own independent irrigation water supply system. Town +staff has had several discussions with our consultants and the results of these discussions revealed the +- A 12 acre site in Manalapan constructed its' own... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016668.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016668.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b52e1b401b0e235b89a77b4bef97d4156c687eec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016668.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +City of West Palm Beach, Florida +Estimate of Gallon per Capita Per Day for the Town of Palm Beach +Line +No. Single Family +Residential +Fiscal Year 2009 +SRF and MF +Total Town of +Residential Palm Beach (2) +1 +Total Water Sales (ccf) (1) +1,226,662 +2,205,898 +2,961,994 +2 +3 +4 +Total Single Family Units +Total Multi-family Units +Total Residential Units Recognized +Water Use per Month per Residential Unit (ccf) +6 Water Use per Month per Residential Unit (gallons) +7 Average Daily Flow per Residential... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016669.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016669.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aec1111e38f3bc5c12f4a82649035dd9cceb1312 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016669.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Palm Beach, Florida + +Town of +Palm Beach +10,468 +-= 1.81 +5,789 +based firm Carrère and Hastings and helped establish the Palm Beach winter +"season" by constant entertaining. The town was incorporated on April 17, 1911. Geography +Palm Beach is the easternmost town in Florida, located on a sixteen-mile-long +barrier island, centered at 26°42'54'N, 80°2122°w (26.715067, -80.039371).14] +no, 2 or 8. 4.5. ensus Bureau the tom 65 ola fres ve. Demographics +As of the 2000... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016670.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016670.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91f8d566baf32a8850c39074a43495e79454d238 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016670.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +NationMaster - Encyclopedia: West Palm Beach + +City of west +Palm Beach +As of the census of 2000, there are 82,103 people, 34,769 households, and 18,253 +families residing in the city. The population density is 574.9/kmO (1,488.9/miD). The racial makeup of the city is 58.09% White, 32.21% African American, 0.33% +Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 4.35% from other races, and +3.40% from two or more races. 18.21% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of +any race. +12,103 =... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016671.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016671.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c7f3a08678596c90b5860d093b5939a06386d9a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016671.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +From: +To: +Date: +Subject: +EBalbis@wpb.org +SHannah@TownofPalmBeach.com +12/03/2008 01:26 PM +Fw: WPB/NYC Water Quality Data +Sarah, +We have obtained information about the water supply in NYC as requested. Note that the City of NY +produces about 33 times the amount of water than the City of West Palm Beach. Assistant City Administrator +City of West Palm Beach +200 - 2nd Street +West Palm Beach, FL 33402 +561-822-1400 +561-822-1424 fax +---- Forwarded by Eduardo Balbis/WESTPALM on 12/03/2008 01:26 PM... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016672.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016672.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb05f2ef7734a93ba37906525455a65179f37cc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016672.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +CONTAMINANTS +AND UNIT OF +MEASURE +Trihalomethanes +(TTHM) (ppb) +Haloacetic Acid +(HAA5) (ppb) +Chloramines (ppm) +Free Chlorine (ppm) +CONTAMINANTS +AND UNIT OF +MEASURE +lead (tap water) +(ppb) +Copper (tap water) +(ppm) +Lead (tap water) +(ppb) +Copper (tap water) +(ppm) +Contaminants and +unit of measure +Turbidy (ntu) +CONTAMINANTS +AND UNIT OF +MEASURE +TOTAL ORGANIC +CARBON (RATIO) +LEVEL +DETECTED +WDR 2007 +RANGE OF +RESULTS +73.5 +30.79 +3.1 +2.4 +90th +PERCENTILE +RESULT +16.125.9 +0.433 +10.5 +0.352 +Highest... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016673.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016673.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d51d1b45daf45000459e4e3fac73e55c92675e10 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016673.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +The Lowest +Lowesst monthly +CONTAMINANTS +Highest single +percentage of +Monthly +AND UNITS OS +MEASURE +measurement +samples meeting +Highest single +Percentage of +regulartoty +measurement Samples meeting +Regulartory +requirements +Requirements +Total Coliform +Bacteria +13.3 +Contaminants and +Unit of Measure +Total Number of +Positive Samples +for Year +MCLG +The Lowest +Highest single +Monthly +Percentage of +measurement Samples meeting +Regulartory +Requirements +Fecal Coliform % Coli +41 +Contaminants and +Unit of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016674.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016674.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e819c26a8a1db0c2624d8795b45ec776721c225 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016674.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +TOP 100 PALM BEACH ACCOUNTS BY AVERAGE MONTHLY CONSUMPTION FY 07-08 +Customer's Name +1 BREAKERS PB INC +2 OCEAN GRAND RESORTS +3 BREAKERS PB INC +4 BREAKERS PB INC +5 TRUMP,DONALD J +6 PALM BEACH TOWERS CO +7 TOWN OF PALM BEACH +8 2000 CONDOMINIUM ASSOC +9 BEACH POINT CONDO ASSOC +10 COUNTY ROAD PROPERTY LLC +11 PALM BEACH BILTMORE CONDO ASSOC INC +12 REEF CONDO ASSOC INC +13 KRAMER,IRWIN +14 2295 S OCEAN BLVD ASSOC +15 PATRICIAN MGMT CORP +16 KRAVIS,HENRY R +17 2100 CONDO ASSOC INC +18 ENCLAVE OF PB CONDO... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016675.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016675.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f31358a0ed918cdf72db407d49b14623a294df0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016675.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +TOP 100 PALM BEACH ACCOUNTS BY AVERAGE MONTHLY CONSUMPTION FY 07-08 +FY 07-08 Average +Monthly +Consumption in +CCF +Customer's Name +39 RESIDENCES AT SLOAN CURVE, THE +40 PELTZ,NELSON +41 TAYLOR, TERRY R +42 CLARIDGES CONDO INC, THE +43 ROYAL SAXON INC +44 WILKENS, FRANK +45 2770 CONDOMINUM, THE +46 PALM BEACH STRATFORD CONDO ASSOC INC +47 PALM BEACH HAMPTON CORP +48 VARGAS, VICTOR +49 DESMARAIS, PAUL +50 SUBOTNICK TRUSTEE,STUART +51 EMERAUDE CONDO ASSOC +52 BATH & TENNIS CLUB INC +53 ROSS, STEPHEN M +54 PALM... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016676.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016676.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14bfb65afb42f1e8513e8d34405032948f7958d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016676.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +TOP 100 PALM BEACH ACCOUNTS BY AVERAGE MONTHLY CONSUMPTION FY 07-08 +Customer's Name +81 APPLEBAUM, EUGENE +82 THE REGENCY OF P B INC +83 KIRKLAND HOUSE CONDO ASSOCIATION INC +84 MARTIN GRUSS +85 CONDO ASSOC OF OCEAN TOWERS INC +86 SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS +87 ATRIUMS OF PB MGMT +88 NESBITT II, ABRAM +89 LAUDER,JOSEPH +90 BEACH CLUB INC +91 TRES VIDAS +92 MERIDIAN OF PALM BCH +93 CUNNINGHAM,JOHN +94 MONTGOMERY, ROBERT M +95 THORNTON,JOHN L +96 LAKE TOWERS ASSOC INC +97 PICOWER,JEFFRY M +98 EVERGLADES CLUB +99 589... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016677.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016677.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f39a4845011dde41ea937199de86ab5fbcf4fff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016677.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Water Committee +Town Sewage Effluent +Jim Bowser to: Patricia Gayle-Gordon +01/22/2009 01:54 PM +Pat, I believe one of the questions asked was what was the sewage flows to West Palm Beach. Here is +an email to Peter sent on 1/9/09. Town Engineer +Town of Palm Beach +Public Works Department +Post Office Box 2029 +Palm Beach, Florida 33480-2029 +email: jbowser@townofpalmbeach.com +561-838-5440 +Fax: 561-835-4691 +--- Forwarded by Jim Bowser/PalmBeach on 01/22/2009 01:56 PM... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016678.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016678.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3a30e14493a85ffdf9de5a1592ed19ed85a66c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016678.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Plant Influent Flows: +Entity +Palm Beach +West Palm Beach +Riviera Beach +Palm Beach County +Lake Worth +ECRWRF TOTAL +FOR MONT OF OCTUBER, 2008. Average Daily Influent Flow (MGD) +Flow +2.39 +13.55 +6.59 +14.57 +7.88 +44.98 +Reserve Cap +% of Capacity +5.00 +47.8% +17.00 +79.70% +8.00 +82.37% +21.50 +67.76% +12.50 +63.04% +64.00 +70.28% +Average Daily Influent Flow (MGD) +16.00 +14.00 +12.00 +10.00 +8.00 +6.00 +4.00 +2.00 +0.00 +-— Palm Beach +- West Pim Bch +- Riv Beach +X Lake Worth + Pim Bch Cty +OCT 07 NOV07 DEC'07... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016679.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016679.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..933f6a29028d82e4fde7cb4fc58607f77e6f51fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016679.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Drinking Water Quality Evaluation: +Analysis of the City of West Palm Beach's +Potable Water Product Delivered to +The Town of Palm Beach +HSA Project No. 803-0319 +Prepared for: +Town of Palm Beach +Public Works Department +951 Old Okeechobee Rd., Suite D +West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 +Prepared by: +HSA Engineers & Scientists +1486-A Skees Road +West Palm Beach, FL 33411 +January 2009 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016679 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016680.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016680.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4629255dcd285eef62cd6fbfd243fb8b4551cb5d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016680.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH'S DRINKING WATER +MONITORING PROGRAMS... POINTS OF ENTRY FOR THE CITY'S DELIVERY OF DRINKING WATER +TO THE TOWN.. SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF THE DRINKING WATER PRODUCT +DELIVERED TO THE TOWN..... RESULTS FROM INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS OF +THE CITY'S DRINKING WATER PRODUCT. CONCLUSION.... +1 +..2 +3 +4 +5 +..5 +..6 +..6 +.7 +FIGURES +FIGURE 1 +Site Location Map +TABLES +TABLE 1 +Test Results Comparative to Regulatory Acceptable Maximum Limits +per Chapter 62-550, Florida Administrative... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016681.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016681.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9bf3e55d8d70426d66b29ab1fcb403898f8f02c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016681.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +EXECUTIVE SUMMARY +Recent Drinking Water Testing Completed and the Results +The City of West Palm Beach (City) treats surface waters at their downtown facility and +produces drinking water for the residents of West Palm Beach. Residents of the Town of Palm +Beach (Town) receive potable water from the City through a franchise agreement that expires +in the year 2029. Due, in part, to the highly publicized " precautionary boil water" notice issued +by the City in September of 2007, concerns arose... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016682.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016682.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4b471bbee35d9ae9278be693d5bcf268c0317b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016682.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +What Do I Need To Do To Ensure My Drinking Water is Safe? The City produces a safe drinking water of +high quality based on the test results over the last several years. To add +a layer of confidence to residents' concerns about the quality of the City's drinking +water, we also recommend that the Town establish a primary point of contact for the City for +courtesy notification and/or discussion of real time details related to issues with the City's +treatment and distribution processes.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016683.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016683.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..574f8849a3f6a397905b135d4207c6339db857f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016683.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Steve Schmidt, +laboratory manager at the City's water treatment plant and Chris Saliba of U.S. In addition, records of the +City's Monthly Operating Records (MORs) and recent results from the City's water monitoring +programs were obtained from the Palm Beach County Health Department (part of the State of +Florida's Department of Health, FDOH). The City conducts two programs to monitor its drinking water quality, a Compliance Monitoring +Program (compliance) and a Routine Monitoring Program... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016684.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016684.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6eab8cd0e068c356db456d5e3166c9dd9e8f08f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016684.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +An eleventh distribution system tap, 4201, is located at 4201 South Ocean Boulevard (in the +South Palm Beach municipality), outside the jurisdiction of the Town. The Phipps Park +"Booster" Pumping Station (PS) is located within the Town's jurisdiction. According to the City's Water +Treatment Plant laboratory manager, the first POE is the tap located in the Water Treatment +Plant's analytical laboratory. POINTS OF ENTRY FOR THE CITY'S DELIVERY OF DRINKING WATER TO THE +TOWN +Plans of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016685.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016685.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9aa2836d940d3397860b84228e3d6c379ec5016 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016685.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Figure 1 also depicts the approximate ICW crossings and points of entry (POEs) of the +transmission mains to the Town. SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF THE DRINKING WATER PRODUCT DELIVERED TO +THE TOWN +As a means to independently evaluate the quality of the drinking water being delivered to the +Town, on November 14, 2008 HSA, accompanied by an employee of the City's Public Utilities +Department, sampled distribution system tap IDSE #6, representing the northern-most extent +of the system, and tap 3230,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016686.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016686.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97c980a4202c716ef581fda8e3ee4542d3547bb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016686.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table 1 arrays the target Primary and Secondary Drinking Standards, regulated +MCLs, required sampling frequency, and laboratory analytical results for the November 14, +2008-collected water samples. Appendix A contains the laboratory analytical reports from HSA's November 14, 2008 +sampling event. COMPARISON TO RECENT CITY MONITORING PROGRAM RESULTS +The City's most recent annual compliance monitoring event for Primary and Secondary +Drinking Water Standards was performed in June 2008. Analysis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016687.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016687.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa7c08b31e5df12dab6d2e3118046a2f1dd428ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016687.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Analysis was +performed by the City's analysts at the Water Treatment Plant's laboratory. Results from +HSA's sampling of the Town's drinking water from northern-most Tap A (IDSE #6) are directly +compared to the City's routine sampling of drinking water from distribution system tap LINL +(closest to Tap A). Results from HSA's sampling of the Town's drinking water from southern- +most Tap B (3230) are compared directly to those from the City's sampling of that tap. It is +noted that the concentration... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016688.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016688.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f152f4516ab464d775b2fb1eaefcde015e668d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016688.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Comparison of a three-year average of the concentrations of Primary and Secondary Drinking +Water Standards from the City's annual compliance monitoring events (circa 2006, 2007, and +2008) to the results from HSA's November 2008 distribution system tap sampling reveals +relative equivalence with irrelevant differences between select parameters concentrations since +the averaged City results are less than respective MCLs (see Table 1). With the exception of the occasional spike in concentrations of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016689.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016689.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be654470c8ab40a4543a3d1367930ea08cd0a3d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016689.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +90, 8 +After Malcolm Pirnie, Exhibit 3 +"City of West Palm Beach/ Water Distribution System +Recommended TCR Sampling Sites and Schedule" +Legend +Sampling Schedule +E +Every day +F +Fri +Mon +Mon and Thu +Intracoastal Waterway +Thu +Tue +w Wed +Sampling Route +North Palm Beach +South Palm Beach +Scale +1.5 +Status +Existing +existinc +Existing +Existing +New +existing +Existing +Existing +Existing +Existing +Existing +Region +North Palm Beach +North Palm Beach +North Palm Beach +Worth Palm Peach +North Palm Beach +South Palm... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016690.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016690.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7ca688fae6ca1102a20efeba873a0bdf42c38a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016690.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +From: +To: +Cc: +Subject: +Date: +Kirk Blouin +John Page +Police Code Enforcement +Re: ARCOM +Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:09:06 PM +JP, +Here is a copy of the minutes from the April CEB hearing. Now that this matter has been resolved +with ARCOM we will proceed with a code enforcement case until the property is in compliance (meaning +they plant the shrubbery and hedges approved by the Town). Krauel or Rob Walton will be available on July 23rd as I will be attending a conference. County Road, Trump... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016691.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016691.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ead4a0eee24f1a6c85267419d8d7c923f144a49f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016691.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY +From: John Page/PalmBeach +To: +Kirk Blouin/PalmBeach@PalmBeach +Cc: +Tim Frank/PalmBeach@PalmBeach +Date: 06/26/2008 09:00 AM +Subject: ARCOM +Kirk: We had our June monthly ARCOM meeting yesterday. Trump to re-install a hedge on his North County Road property. I believe this case is now +pending in front of Code Enforcement. The shrubs have been planted, but +yesterday attorney Ray Royce asked for postponing the trees until the end of the Hurricane season. They asked that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016692.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016692.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e46fad4a526df9a2bdf7e99dd1f09b325cbb6bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016692.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +From: +To: +Subject: +Date: +John Page +Re: Russian House +Monday, May 04, 2009 5:23:18 PM +Mayor: +JP +Happy to help. The address is 515 N. From: +To: +Date: 05/04/2009 04:28 PM +Subject: +Russian House +JP: What is the address of the former Trump mansion on North Ocean purchased by the Russian? MM +Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016693.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016693.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..549cb702aac56b0cfa3e9ee4fc47995e99e046a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016693.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +To: +Subject: +Date: +John Page +Re: Trump house +Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:54:32 AM +. Mayor: The address you want is: 515 North County Road. (NOT North Ocean Blvd.) JP +From: +To: +Date: 11/19/2008 07:43 AM +Subject: +Trump house +JP: Can you provide the # address for the old Gosman/Trump house on North Ocean Boulevard? MM +Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016699.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016699.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45c5a162dfb24921064c97040f0612dfa8c1ca3b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016699.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +OGE Form 278e (March 2014) +U.S. Office of Government Ethics; 5 C.F.R. part 2634 | Form Approved: OMB No. (3209-0001) +Report Type: +Year (Annual Report only): +Date of Appointment/Termination: +2018 +January 20, 2017 +Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) +Filer's Information +Last Name +Trump +First Name +Donald +MI +Position +President of the United States of America +Other Federal Government Positions Held During the Preceding 12 Months: +N/A +Name of Congressional... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016700.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016700.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e4e7f9ed9475d03091d4539a67be64d1dd6f5b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016700.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +OGE Form 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 1 +Note: This is a public form. See instructions for required information. Trump +Part 1: Filer's Positions Held Outside United States Government +Organization Name +The Donald J. Trump Foundation, Ino. (inactive) +City/State +New York, NY +Organization Type +Non profit +Page Number +2 of 42 +Position Held +Director/President +From +02.18.87/02.18.87 +To +Present/11.13.2018 + +Prior reporis indicated that President Trump resigned the Director postion on 1/19/17.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016701.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016701.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e9a026a2006f0bcd650002c02e30213efa92a3b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016701.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +OGE Form 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 2 +Filer's Name +Donald J. Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +Note: This is a public form. See instructions for required information. +002 +004 +40 Wall Street LLC +Underlying Assets: commercial real estate +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +401 North Wabash Venture LLC +Underlying Assets: residential & commercial real estate +Location: Chicago, IL +See attached schedule +EIF +attached schedule +(Part 2 - EXHIBIT... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016702.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016702.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85c86262995a35e880b0d2bb471d241d4e01695a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016702.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +012 +013 +D B Pace Acquisition, LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Assets: land, bullding and ffle (sold) +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +DJT AEROSPACE LLC +Underlying Assets: aircraft +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +Page Number +4 of 42 +EIF +attached schedule +(Part 2 - EXHIBIT A) +Reference # +NIA 036 +Value +None (or less than $1,001) +Income Type +sale +Income... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016703.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016703.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47ea715a4715236a311f526c39cd289763a86b02 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016703.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +024 +026 +028 +1030 +031 +032 +034 +036 +037 +038 +039 +Excel Venture ILLC +Underlying Assets: residential rental property +Location: St. Martin, French West Indies +See attached schedule +Fifty-Seventh Street Associates LLC +Underlying Assets: commercial real estate +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +Golf Productions LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB - JUPITER +Underlying Assets: golf... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016704.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016704.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..844171e578c17581641d4066df60785467b99cce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016704.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +040 +041 +042 +THC CENTRAL RESERVATIONS LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: hotel company - value not readil +ascertainable. Hotel company, New York, NY; see attached +schedule +THC CHINA DEVELOPMENT LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: developer - value not readily +ascertainable, Developer, New York, NY; See attached schedute +THC SALES &... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016705.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016705.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59cdfe8e2d01fdb48323a1683443526f0bebe4de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016705.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +Value +049 +050 +051 +052 +057 +059 +061 +064 +1065 +TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB - CHARLOTTE +Underlying Assets: golf club +Location: Charlotte, NC +See attached schedule +TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB - HUDSON VALLEY +Underlying Assets: golf club +Location: Hopewell Junction, NY +See attached schedule +TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB - PHILADELPHIA +Underlying Assets: golf club +Location: Pine Hill, NJ +See attached schedule +Value reported reflects bank account... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016706.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016706.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eee588912ee325be2e61637bd3a70ccf041df6e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016706.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Deseription +066 +067 +068 +069 +070 +071 +072 +073 +076 +EIF +attached schedule +(Part 2 - EXHIBIT A) +Reference # +TRUMP GOLF ACQUISITIONS LLC +NIA 287 +Value reported reflects bank account holding only +Additional Underlying Asset none +Entity set up to sign letters of intent for golf related deals, New York, NY, See attached +schedule +TRUMP HOME MARKS ILC +NIA |291 +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. License holder, New York, NY +See attached... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016707.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016707.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..875ff82cbc0aa56de20a6de64282ee8a74c3506c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016707.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +078 +080 +081 +087 +090 +091 +092 +093 +094 +Value +Income Type +TRUMP MARKS ISTANBUL II LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: license deal with ORTADOGU +OTOMOTIV TICARET AS - value not readily ascertainable. License +holder, New York, NY +See attached schedule +TRUMP MARKS MATTRESS LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. License holder, New York, NY +See attached schedule +TRUMP MARKS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016708.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016708.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..792646771c643882256023e1bcc5aa9fb5e94c73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016708.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +095 +097 +098 +099 +100 +101 +103 +104 +106 +108 +TRUMP OLD POST OFFICE LLC +Underlying Assets: hotel +Location: Washington, DC +See attached schedule +Miss Universe L.P., LLLP +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: none +See attached schedule +TRUMP PALACE/PARC LLC +Underlying Assets: commercial real estate +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +TRUMP PARK AVENUE LLO +Underlying Assets: residential &... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016709.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016709.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0de95ae8db2dd4b19e4ef19d2cdf8e1d0db1f456 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016709.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +109 +110 +111 +112 +113 +114 +116 +119 +120 +121 +TRUMP TOWER MANAGING MEMBER INC. Entity's other +holdings and assets are reported elsewhere; see attached +schedule. Entity's other +holdings and assets are reported elsewhere; see attached +schedule. New York, NY +TRUMP VINEYARD ESTATES LLC +Underlying Assets: vineyard +Location: Charlottesville, VA +TRUMP VINEYARD ESTATES LOT 3 OWNER LLC +Underlying Assets: vineyard +Location: Charlottesville, VA +See... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016710.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016710.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cb0f5c42db867c60672e6adc9dc9ad32996ee18 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016710.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +122 +EIF attached schedule +(Part 2 - EXHIBIT A) +Reference # +4% limited partnership interest in Starrett City Associates, L.P. (via the +N/A 1018, 141, 154, 446 +entities disclosed on Exhibil A and direct ownership by The Donald J. Trump +Revocable Trust) +Value of remaining distributions not readily ascertainable +Additional Underlying Assets: residential real estate (sold) +Location: Brooklyn, NY +Page Number +12 of 42 +Value +Income... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016711.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016711.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ad622ceb434664b04bff79dea9464a6c541daa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016711.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +127 +130 +132 +133 +134 +DT Marks Worli LLC +Underlying Assets: license deal +Licensee(s): JAWALA REAL ESTATE PRIVATE LTD, LODHA +DEVELOPERS PRIVATE LTD +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +Value not readily ascertainable +THC VANCOUVER MANAGEMENT CORP +Underlying Assets: management company +Location: Vancouver, Canada +See attached schedule +Value not readily ascertainable +TNGC JUPITER MANAGEMENT LLC +Value reported reflects bank account... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016712.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016712.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14c644809cbeb99f0712e526268966509034ba62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016712.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +137 +140 +141 +142 +143 +144 +146 +TRUMP MARKS PHILIPPINES LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Licensee(s): CENTURY CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +Value not readily ascertainable +TRUMP MARKS SUNNY ISLES ILLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Assets: license deal - value not readily +Licensee(s): MICHAEL DEZER & NAOMI DEZERTOV +TRUMP PANAMA HOTEL... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016713.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016713.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce7612e0b52ede5fa3bafe9b185e99a2e48983ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016713.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +147 +148 +149 +150 +151 +152 +153 +154 +The Art Of The Deal +Publisher: Random House +Underlying Assets: book +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily ascertainable +(Published 1987) +Time To Get Tough +Publisher: Regnery Publishing +Underlying Assets: book +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily ascertainable +(Published 2011) +Think Like a Billionaire +Publisher. Random House +Underlying Assets: book +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016714.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016714.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e897ddd4fc8951df27a2efc7a9ab03fd4354f3b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016714.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +155 +156 +157 +158 +159 +160 +169 +178 +The Best Real Estate Advice | Ever Received +Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Inc. Underlying Assets: book +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily ascertainable +(Published 2005) +The Way To The Top +Publisher: Bill Adler Books +Underlying Assets: book +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily ascertainable +(Published 2004) +How to Get Rich +Publisher: Random House +Underlying Assets: book +Location: New York,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016715.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016715.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c94703fd3b90c14cff71360d36bb890b3dc791c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016715.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +180 +181 +182 +183 +184 +187 +188 +189 +TRUMP MARKS PUNTA DEL ESTE LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: license deal with AETOS SA and +FAROY SA - value not readily ascertainable. License holder, Punta Del Este, Uruguay; See attached schedule. Additional Underlying Assets: aircraft (transferred) +Location: Turnberry, Scolland +See attached schedule +DT ENDEAVOR I LLO +Underlying Assets:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016716.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016716.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd8e70cd1a162628b86a9865a9bdd57c42ba4c46 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016716.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +191 +192 +194 +195 +196 +Trump Las Vegas Sales & Marketing, Inc. Entity set +up to receive brokerage commissions, Las Vegas, NV; See attached +schedule +DT TOWER KOLKATA LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. STORAGE 106 LLC +Underlying Assets: commercial real estate (asset transferred in +2018) +Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +SC CLEVELAND MS MANAGEMENT LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016717.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016717.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a876cba2a14cee8d063b5247f096382a56473f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016717.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +198 +199 +AMERICAN FEDERATION of TELEVISION and RADIO ARTISTS +PENSION +Underlying Assets: pension +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily ascertainable +WB Studio Enterprises Inc +Residual income earned from movies/television +Individual programs generated less than $200 of income +Location: Burbank, CA +Value not readily ascertainable +Page Number +19 of 42 +EIF +attached schedule +(Part 2 - EXHIBIT A) +Reference # +NIA +Value +N/A +Income... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016718.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016718.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1aa1f6aaf90cafac1a71b68ed670b7bbb8372099 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016718.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Trump +Part 2: Filer's Employment Assets and Income +Description +205 +206 +207 +4T HOLDINGS TWO LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: management company - value not +readily ascertainable. Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +T EXPRESS LLC +Value reported reflects bank account holding only. Additional Underlying Asset: potential hotel deal (inactive) - value +not readily ascertainable. Location: New York, NY +See attached schedule +IT PROMOTIONS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016719.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016719.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92089772708964ece2368dd678c560eb1aafb453 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016719.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +OGE Forn 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 3 +Filer's Name +Donald J. Trump +Part 3: Filer's Employment Agreements and Arrangements +Employer or Party +City/State +Status and Terms +Note: This is a public form. Screen Actors Guild - +Producers +Burbank, CA +Pension Plan for Motion Picture Actors; payments received on a monthly basis. The date reflects the year that +Donald J. AMERICAN FEDERATION +of TELEVISION and +RADIO ARTISTS +Retirement Fund +New York, NY +Pension Plan for Television and Radio... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016720.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016720.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..772c2d7050d3a120ece2bc97516c5f844168121a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016720.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +OGE Foun 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 4 +Note: This is a public form. Do not include account numbers, street addresses, or family member names. See instructions for required information. Filer's Name +Page Number +Donald J. Trump +Part 4: Filer's Sources of Compensation Exceeding $5,000 in a Year +Source Name +City/State +Brief Description of Duties +1. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016721.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016721.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c18ad97061f89a6f596a47d2127526d05278663 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016721.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +OGE Form 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 5 +Filer's Name +Donald J. Trump +Part 5: Spouse's Employment Assets and Income +Description +Melania LLC +Underlying Assets: inactive +Location: New York, NY +MELANIA MARKS ACCESSORIES LLC +Underlying Assets: licensing agreement +Licensee(s): MZ BERGER & COMPANY LLC +Location: New York, NY +Value not readily ascertainable +MELANIA MARKS ACCESSORIES MEMBER CORP +(pass-thru company for MELANIA MARKS ACCESSORIES +Note: This is a public form. See instructions for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016722.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016722.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d72dc8e9813989d2f7177c743802def1ba936449 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016722.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +OGE Form 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 6 +Filer's Name +Donald J. Trump +Part 6: Other Assets and Income +Description +JP MORGAN CHASE - CHECKING AND SAVINGS +1 +ACCOUNTS +Note: This is a public form. Income Type +EIF +Value +N/A +2 +CAPITAL ONE BANK - CHECKING AND SAVINGS +N/A +3 +SIGNATURE BANK - CHECKING +N/A +4 +BANK UNITED, NA - MONEY MARKET +N/A +5 +FIRST REPUBLIC BANK - CHECKING +N/A +6 +INVESTMENT IN GOLD +N/A +7 WMTMF LLC (US BANK CASH ACCOUNT) +MBWT LLC +8 Underlying assets are not reportable +N/A +No +The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016723.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016723.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83f6d7d1e2197d158ca26307d571d8d0137ee7db --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016723.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +OGE Form 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 6 +Filer's Name +Donald J. Trump +Part 6: Other Assets and Income +Description +Note: This is a public form. Page Number +EIF Value +Income Type +Income Amount +4 +BANK UNITED - MONEY MARKET +N/A +$5,000,001 - $25,000,000 +Interest +None (or less than $201) +Family Trust 1 +1 AMG MG PICTET INTL-Z +Y +2 DODGE & COX INTL STOCK FD +Y +3 ISHARES MSCI EAFE INDEX FUND +Y +4 ISHARES CORE MSCI EAFE ETF +Y +5 IPMORGAN BETABUILDERS CANADA ETF +SIX CIRCLES INTERNATIONAL... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016725.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016725.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..334fd72962be4f90e65ca08d9d1e34333b31e979 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016725.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +OGE Fomn 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 6 +Filer's Name +Donald J. Trump +Part 6: Other Assets and Income +Description +Note: This is a public form. See instructions for required information +EIF Value +Income Type +Income Amount +Page Number +27 of 42 +Family Trust 2 +AMG MG PICTET INTL-Z +Y +2 DODGE & COX INTL STOCK FD +3 ISHARES MSCI EAFE INDEX FUND +Y +Y +4 ISHARES CORE MSCI EAFE ETF +Y +5 JPMORGAN BETABUILDERS CANADA ETF +Y +SIX CIRCLES INTERNATIONAL UNCONSTRAINED EQUITY +"FUND +Y +7 ARTISAN INTL VALUE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016728.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016728.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4158f5d01ff9ac06df4c2bf2f9ceef65591aa11 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016728.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +OGE Fonn 278e (March 2014) +Instructions for Part 6 +Note: This is a public form. Do not include account numbers, street addresses, or family member names. See instructions for required information. Trump +Part 6: Other Assets and Income +Description +EIF +Value +Income Type +Income Amount +18 BOSTON P GL LG/SH EQ- INST +19 GMO SGM MAJOR MARKETS FD-VI +20 US Bank Cash Account +21 LORD ABBETT SHRT DUR INC-F3 +22 JPM SHRT-INT MUNI BND FD - USD - I +23 SIX CIRCLES TAX AWARE ULTRA SHORT +24 AMERICAN FUNDS THE... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016824.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016824.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a4e4723b1bed1b2c8647f62d66fcfc971128bc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016824.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Technological prediction is particularly chancy, given that technologies progress +by a series of refinements, halted by obstacles and overcome by innovation. In the 1950s, partly inspired by conversations with Wiener, John von Neumann +introduced the notion of the "technological singularity." Technologies tend to improve +exponentially, doubling in power or sensitivity over some interval of time. (For +example, since 1950, computer technologies have been doubling in power roughly +every two years,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016825.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016825.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96585d84acbb0c052588d2d2821e29420b14ace5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016825.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Similarly, the exponential advances in Moore's Law are +starting to run into limits imposed by basic physics. Eventually, the various +exponential improvements in memory and processing driven by Moore's Law will +grind to a halt. In Wiener's time, our understanding of the architecture of the brain +was rudimentary and simplistic. Since then, increasingly sensitive instrumentation and +imaging techniques have shown our brains to be far more varied in structure and +complex in function than Wiener... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016826.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016826.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c4b6c03d90d6b93600b42d548b24af25dd4c407 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016826.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Whither Wiener +Wiener noted that exponential technological progress is a relatively modern phenomenon +and not all of it is good. He compared the +headlong exploitation of the planet's resources with the Mad Tea Party of Alice in +Wonderland: Having laid waste to one local environment, we make progress simply by +moving on to lay waste to the next. Wiener's optimism about the development of +computers and neuro-mechanical systems was tempered by his pessimism about their +exploitation by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016829.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016829.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a6452668ea9e349750ec7238d1f2fd5726a604f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016829.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +cannot serve as the basis for Strong Al-that is, artificial intelligence that emulates +human-level reasoning and competence. To achieve human-level intelligence, learning +machines need the guidance of a blueprint of reality, a model-similar to a road map that +guides us in driving through an unfamiliar city. It is +a slow process, analogous to the natural-selection process that drives Darwinian +evolution. Historians of Homo sapiens such as Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Mithen are in +general... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016830.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016830.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03b730129bffb62fb0f146cd61ae13e2ec98fb88 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016830.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +These +disciplines view their linguistic transformation as the Causal Revolution. As Harvard +social scientist Gary King puts it, "More has been learned about causal inference in the +last few decades than the sum total of everything that had been learned about it in all +prior recorded history." +As I contemplate the success of machine learning and try to extrapolate it to the +future of AI, I ask myself, "Are we aware of the basic limitations that were discovered in +the causal-inference arena? In... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016831.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016831.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..07864a386f78bc1fd1aa15c2862f11cc9e1fa551 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016831.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Computer scientist Stuart Russell, along with Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Max +Tegmark, and numerous others, has insisted that attention be paid to the potential +dangers in creating an intelligence on the superhuman (or even the human) level an +AGI, or artificial general intelligence, whose programmed purposes may not necessarily +align with our own. He developed the technique of +rational meta-reasoning, "which is, roughly speaking, that you do the computations that +you expect to improve the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016832.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016832.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf0065c9cf02f7e2c7995586d86b75466b6a34a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016832.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +THE PURPOSE PUT INTO THE MACHINE +Stuart Russell +Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in +Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is the coauthor (with Peter Norvig) of Artificial +Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Among the many issues raised in Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings +(1950) that are currently relevant, the most significant to the Al researcher is the +possibility that humanity may cede control over its destiny to machines. Ten years later,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016833.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016833.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d637267502a6f7a7fcf133ff43dc9197ff7bab18 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016833.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In both the logical-planning and rational-agent views of Al, the machine's +objective whether in the form of a goal, a utility function, or a reward function (as in +reinforcement learning)—is specified exogenously. In Wiener's words, this is "the +purpose put into the machine." Indeed, it has been one of the tenets of the field that AI +systems should be general-purpose i.e., capable of accepting a purpose as input and +then achieving it-rather than special-purpose, with their goal implicit in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016834.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016834.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1248ea3582d2a4370da03e62fb3a33821622bb2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016834.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +imperfectly specified objectives conflicting with our own-whose motivation to preserve +their existence in order to achieve those objectives may be insuperable. +1001 Reasons to Pay No Attention +Objections have been raised to these arguments, primarily by researchers within the Al +community. Here are some of the more common ones: +• Don't worry, we can just switch it off? This is often the first thing that pops into a +layperson's head when considering risks from superintelligent Al—as if... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016835.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016835.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f0519898e48f694f216a15732879ee0cb06eebc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016835.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +A more apt analogy would +be a plan to move the human race to Mars with no consideration for what we +might breathe, drink, or eat once we'd arrived. +• Human-level Al isn't really imminent, in any case. The Al100 report, for example, +assures us, "Contrary to the more fantastic predictions for Al in the popular press, +the Study Panel found no cause for concern that Al is an imminent threat to +humankind." This argument simply misstates the reasons for concern, which are +not predicated on imminence.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016836.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016836.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db51d88dfd25f027c80a0674ba477545c5fb214f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016836.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +whereas the iron-eating bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is thrilled. The fact that a machine has been given a fixed +objective by humans doesn't mean that it will automatically recognize the +importance to humans of things that aren't part of the objective. Maximizing the +objective may well cause problems for humans, but, by definition, the machine +will not recognize those problems as problematic. +• Intelligence is multidimensional, "so 'smarter than humans' is a meaningless +concept."6 It is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016837.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016837.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c575239177e68fd6d3de34351dcc2eaef3d0191b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016837.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This formulation sidesteps Wiener's problem: The +machine may learn more about human preferences as it goes along, of course, but it will +never achieve complete certainty +A more precise definition is given by the framework of cooperative inverse- +reinforcement learning, or CIRL. A simple example: Suppose that Harriet, the human, likes to collect paper +clips and staples and her reward function depends on how many of each she has. More +precisely, if she has p paper clips and s staples, her degree... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016838.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016838.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad725200d26d8ccb4667fb7a294c51825fbf96e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016838.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The overall approach resembles mechanism-design problems in +economics, wherein one incentivizes other agents to behave in ways beneficial to the +designer. Second, +there are strong, near-term economic incentives for robots to understand human +preferences: If one poorly designed domestic robot cooks the cat for dinner, not realizing +that its sentimental value outweighs its nutritional value, the domestic-robot industry will +be out of business. Humans are irrational, +inconsistent, weak-willed, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016839.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016839.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72910974ac21d7faa4bc08031c1e5320d87343c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016839.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In 2005, George Dyson, a historian of science and technology, visited Google at the +invitation of some Google engineers. The occasion was the sixtieth anniversary of John +von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. After the visit, George wrote an essay, +"Turing's Cathedral," which, for the first time, alerted the public about what Google's +founders had in store for the world. "We are scanning them to be read by +an Al. His career (he never finished high school, yet has been awarded an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016840.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016840.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce21d9787a1ee02650442cd0049781a7278dc242 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016840.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +THE THIRD LAW +George Dyson +George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the +Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing's Cathedral. The history of computing can be divided into an Old Testament and a New Testament: +before and after electronic digital computers and the codes they spawned proliferated +across the Earth. The Old Testament prophets, who delivered the underlying logic, +included Thomas Hobbes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016841.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016841.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..661d780498659226e42cccc4e1cef6496b6b89c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016841.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +In analog computing, complexity resides in network topology, not in code. Information is processed as continuous functions of values such as voltage and relative +pulse frequency rather than by logical operations on discrete strings of bits. Digital +computing, intolerant of error or ambiguity, depends upon error correction at every step +along the way. Analog computing tolerates errors, allowing you to live with them. Nature uses digital coding for the storage, replication, and recombination... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016842.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016842.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b76aecc5374b8d52763cbb02fb9ccf46cc261b65 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016842.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Imagine it is 1958 and you are trying to defend the continental United States against +airborne attack. To distinguish hostile aircraft, one of the things you need, besides a +network of computers and early-warning radar sites, 1s a map of all commercial air +traffic, updated in real time. The United States built such a system and named it SAGE +(Semi-Automatic Ground Environment). SAGE in turn spawned Sabre, the first +integrated reservation system for booking airline travel in real time. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016843.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016843.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3fcaa96dbeb3b5f8da4bf3438436dbedebc3f4f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016843.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The third law states that any system simple enough to be understandable will not +be complicated enough to behave intelligently, while any system complicated enough to +behave intelligently will be too complicated to understand +The Third Law offers comfort to those who believe that until we understand +intelligence, we need not worry about superhuman intelligence arising among machines. But there is a loophole in the Third Law. It is entirely possible to build something +without understanding it.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016844.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016844.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cfb14c74b687a8b5d81f088ed58f268045afba16 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016844.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Dan Dennett is the philosopher of choice in the Al community. That uncompromising +computationalism has been opposed by philosophers such as John Searle, David +Chalmers, and the late Jerry Fodor, who have protested that the most important aspects +of consciousness intentionality and subjective qualia cannot be computed. Twenty-five years ago, I was visiting Marvin Minsky, one of the original Al +pioneers, and asked him about Dan. "He's our best current philosopher the next +Bertrand Russell," said... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016845.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016845.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..44bd7489704e54083f694a2c16826cc933ddd9ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016845.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of +Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the +author of a dozen books, including Consciousness Explained and, most recently, From +Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. This struck me with particular force when +I reread The Human Use of Human Beings more than sixty years after my juvenile +encounter. Alan Turing's famous 1950 article "Computing Machinery and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016846.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016846.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dca4a3e0b7bedf3bada24806a262f6f38eaa4212 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016846.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It's an old, old story, with many well-known chapters in evolutionary history. The self-perpetuating +patterns that we call human beings are now dependent on clothes, cooked food, vitamins, +vaccinations, ... credit cards, smartphones, and the Internet. And-tomorrow if not +already today-Al. Wiener foresaw the problems that Turing and the other optimists have largely +overlooked. My late friend Joe Weizenbaum, Wiener's +successor as MIT's Jeremiah of hi-tech, loved to observe that credit cards,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016847.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016847.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5c5f839d7013b919444f22978620a3a0e8fe409 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016847.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +the long run, there is no distinction between arming ourselves and arming our enemies." +(p. 129) The Information Age is also the Dysinformation Age. We need to rethink our priorities with the help of the passionate +but flawed analyses of Wiener, Weizenbaum, and the other serious critics of our +technophilia. A key phrase, it seems to me, is Wiener's almost offhand observation, +above, that "these machines" are "helpless by themselves." As I have been arguing +recently, we're making tools, not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016848.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016848.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ecba0201383868da28d921a6d6e889be050ffa3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016848.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The only chink in the armor of AI is that word "vast"; human possibilities, thanks to +language and the culture that it spawns, are truly Vast. 10 No matter how many patterns +we may find with Al in the flood of data that has so far found its way onto the Internet, +there are Vastly more possibilities that have never been recorded there. Only a fraction +(but not a Vanishing fraction) of the world's accumulated wisdom and design and +repartee and silliness has made it onto the Internet, but probably... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016849.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016849.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af928158f8e04d6186a00b52d4210d3b84a87ead --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016849.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Watson is not good company, in spite of misleading ads from IBM that +suggest a general conversational ability, and turning Watson into a plausibly +multidimensional agent would be like turning a hand calculator into Watson. Why would we want to create a thinking, creative agent out of Watson? Perhaps +Turing's brilliant idea of an operational test has lured us into a trap: the quest to create at +least the illusion of a real person behind the screen, bridging the "uncanny valley." The +danger,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016850.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016850.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..44c266a15aac3f9d401ad7f4e7b525c6ab80dfad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016850.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Many people would find the +cultivation of such a ruthlessly skeptical approach morally repugnant, and we can +anticipate that even the most proficient system-users would occasionally succumb to the +temptation to "befriend" their tools, if only to assuage their discomfort with the execution +of their duties. No matter how scrupulously the Al designers launder the phony "human" +touches out of their wares, we can expect novel habits of thought, conversational gambits +and ruses, traps and bluffs to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016851.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016851.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4bf8c878fa355743784ead9efd35fda8bcfb2e85 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016851.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +If this isn't obvious, +think about how human morality would be affected if we could make "backups" of +people every week, say. Diving headfirst on Saturday off a high bridge without benefit +of bungee cord would be a rush that you wouldn't remember when your Friday night +backup was put online Sunday morning, but you could enjoy the videotape of your +apparent demise thereafter. So what we are creating are not-should not be-conscious, humanoid agents but +an entirely new sort of entities, rather... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016852.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016852.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a71a1334652a4eac54223c0f86fc34081d05fce4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016852.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The roboticist Rodney Brooks, featured in Errol Morris's 1997 documentary Fast, +Cheap and Out of Control along with a lion-tamer, a topiarist, and an expert on the +naked mole rat, was described by one reviewer as "smiling with a wild gleam in his eye." +But that's pretty much true of most visionaries. A few years later in his career, Brooks, as befits one of the world's leading +roboticists, suggested that "we overanthropomorphize humans, who are after all mere +machines." He went on to present a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016853.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016853.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e2ec5d89a71577fafae39fb21eb3b2c0fff6345 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016853.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +THE INHUMAN MESS OUR MACHINES HAVE GOTTEN US INTO +Rodney Brooks +Rodney Brooks is a computer scientist; Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus, MIT; +former director, MIT Computer Science Lab; and founder, chairman, and CTO of +Rethink Robotics. He is the author of Flesh and Machines. When he wrote The Human Use of Human Beings, Wiener was straddling the end +of the era of understanding machines and animals simply as physical processes and the +beginning of our current era of understanding... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016854.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016854.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd1453104a751eeda3faa7aa9be815b82cf32747 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016854.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When von Neumann's +abstract machine reproduced, it made a copy of itself in another region of the plane. A second foundational piece of work was in a 1945 "First Draft" report on the +design for a digital computer, wherein von Neumann advocated for a memory that could +contain both instructions and data. 14 This is now known as a von Neumann architecture +computer—as distinct from a Harvard architecture computer, where there are two +separate memories, one for instructions and one for data. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016855.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016855.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b434de198ef7d479e0d68884baa6eb1bd7686fdd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016855.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Today's dominant technologies were +developed in the world of Turing and von Neumann, rather than the world of Wiener. In the first industrial revolution, energy from a steam engine or a water wheel was +used by human workers to replace their own energy. Instead of being a source of energy +for physical work, people became modulators of how a large source of energy was used +But because steam engines and water wheels had to be large to be an efficient use of +capital, and because in the 18th century... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016856.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016856.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..643de16881f46e9c3aae38c95b1384a0cb13d877 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016856.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +rapid development of software without standards of correctness has opened up many +routes to exploit von Neumann architecture's storage of data and instructions in the same +memory. One of the most common routes, known as "buffer overrun," involves an input +number (or long string of characters) that is bigger than the programmer expected and +overflows into where the instructions are stored. By carefully designing an input number +that is too big by far, someone using a piece of software can infect... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016857.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016857.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eab78c29896a8bc4fb8d7bef44e3a34f77c8f52d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016857.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When the machine no longer simply computes a function but instead maintains a +state, it can start to make inferences about the human by the sequence of requests +presented to it. And when different programs correlate across different request streams— +say, correlating Web-page searches with social-media posts, or the payment for services +on another platform, or the dwell time on a particular advertisement, or where the user +has walked or driven with their GPS-enabled smartphone the total systems... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016858.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016858.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d74423ba0b08fcf9c64f569e4c1186cc42e50c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016858.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I first met Frank Wilezek in the 1980s, when he invited me to his home in Princeton to +talk about anyons. "Look for the house +with no driveway." So there I was, a few hours later, in Einstein's old living room, +talking to a future recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics. His only comment concerned the difficulty +of finding a parking place in front of a "house with no driveway." +Unlike most theoretical physicists, Frank has long had a keen interest in Al, as +witnessed in these three... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016859.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016859.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17751636467fcebe3aced6c6b2517d3da555c6f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016859.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +THE UNITY OF INTELLIGENCE +Frank Wilczek +Frank Wilczek is Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 +Nobel Prize in physics, and the author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep +Design. A Simple Answer to Contentious Questions: +• Can an artificial intelligence be conscious? +• Can an artificial intelligence be creative? +• Can an artificial intelligence be evil? But the discussions never seem to converge. Here I'll begin by +answering them as follows: +Based on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016860.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016860.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75a48c4663b10f8348769e7ce0cadaf0ffaea8d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016860.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +As an observer, I'd have no less (and no more) reason to ascribe consciousness, +creativity, or evil to that artifact than I do to ascribe those properties to its natural +counterparts, like other human beings. Thus, by combining Crick's "astonishing hypothesis" in neurobiology with +powerful evidence from physics, we deduce that natural intelligence is a special case of +artificial intelligence. That conclusion deserves a name, and I will call it "the astonishing +corollary." +With that, we have the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016861.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016861.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f596f8136bbb16b41db3e0056676e303f3e8a410 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016861.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +From two strongly supported hypotheses, we've +drawn a straightforward conclusion: +• Human mind emerges from matter. Matter is what physics says it is. +• Therefore, the human mind emerges from physical processes we +understand and can reproduce artificially +• Therefore, natural intelligence is a special case of artificial +intelligence. Such a discovery would be.. astonishing +Il. The Future of Intelligence +It is part of human nature to improve on human bodies and minds. At the same time,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016862.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016862.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ee76dc0937a5aea7000f574bc6e96da84d08e74 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016862.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Thus, electronic +processing is close to a billion times faster. +• Size: The linear dimension of a typical neuron is about 10 microns. Smallness +makes communication more efficient. +• Stability: Whereas human memory is essentially continuous (analog), +artificial memory can incorporate discrete (digital) features. Whereas analog +quantities can erode, digital quantities can be stored, refreshed, and +maintained with complete accuracy. +• Duty Cycle: Human brains grow tired with effort. Most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016863.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016863.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b3af86ef15892255e17c4c3746f67ec8c27804a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016863.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +• Connectivity: Human neurons typically support several hundred connections +(synapses). Moreover, the complex pattern of these connections is very +meaningful. (See our next point.) Computer units typically make only a handful +of connections, in regular, fixed patterns. +• Development (self-assembly with interactive sculpting): The human brain grows +its units by cell divisions and orchestrates them into coherent structures by +movement and folding. It also proliferates an abundance of connections... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016864.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016864.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c654179cef5c877662ca71ef1581f1e6a61e3b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016864.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Altogether, the advantages of artificial over natural intelligence appear +permanent, while the advantages of natural over artificial intelligence, though substantial +at present, appear transient. If that's right, we can look forward to several generations during which humans, +empowered and augmented by smart devices, coexist with increasingly capable +autonomous Als. Given the intrinsic advantages that engineered devices +will eventually offer, the vanguard of that evolution will be cyborgs and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016865.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016865.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4991d8f146e4c13055193afa9c17497a66f3db22 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016865.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I was introduced to Max Tegmark some years ago by his MIT colleague Alan Guth, the +father of the inflationary universe. Four years ago, Max co-founded, with Jaan Tallinn and others, the Future +of Life Institute (FLI), which bills itself as "an outreach organization working to ensure +that tomorrow's most powerful technologies are beneficial for humanity." While on a +book tour in London, he was in the midst of planning for FLI, and he admits being driven +to tears in a tube station after a trip to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016866.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016866.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2531471d26bd28a85a1a944f53dc106bb7825e34 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016866.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +LET'S ASPIRE TO MORE THAN MAKING OURSELVES OBSOLETE +Max Tegmark +Max Tegmark is an MIT physicist and Al researcher; president of the Future of Life +Institute; scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author +of Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial +Intelligence. Although there's great controversy about how and when Al will impact humanity, the +situation is clearer from a cosmic perspective: The technology-developing life that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016867.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016867.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b19e2d99c1e2556a62fc3389006aaad157e5411 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016867.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Others, including some of the authors in this volume, dismiss the building of an +AGI (Artificial General Intelligence an entity able to accomplish any cognitive task at +least as well as humans) not because they consider it physically impossible but because +they deem it too difficult for humans to pull off in less than a century. Among +professional Al researchers, both types of dismissal have become minority views because +of recent breakthroughs. A recent survey of Al researchers +by Vincent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016868.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016868.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e866d41dec75f9501465bd30514485b5a2242bf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016868.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The debate about the societal impact of Al has changed dramatically in the last +few years. In 2014, what little public talk there was of Al risk tended to be dismissed as +Luddite scaremongering, for one of two logically incompatible reasons: +(1) AGI was overhyped and wouldn't happen for at least another century. +(2) AGI would probably happen sooner but was virtually guaranteed to be +beneficial +Today, talk of Al's societal impact is everywhere, and work on Al safety and Al +ethics has moved into... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016869.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016869.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4fa6e284b1e36759358dda1564a796edc560fee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016869.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The successful creation of AGI would be the biggest event +in human history, so why is there so little serious discussion of what it might lead to? First, as Upton Sinclair famously quipped, "It is difficult to get a man to +understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."1? Sinclair's +observation may help explain not only reactions to risks from smoking and climate +change but also why some treat technology as a new religion whose central articles of +faith are that more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016870.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016870.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dde977909cd13d919cb5a1b161d1e3ff4a08c0f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016870.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +(3) Investments in Al should be accompanied by funding for research on ensuring +its beneficial use. ... How can we make future Al systems highly robust, so that they do +The first two involve not getting stuck in suboptimal Nash equilibria. Al safety research must be carried out with a strict deadline in mind: Before AGI +arrives, we need to figure out how to make AI understand, adopt, and retain our goals. If a superintelligence is ever unleashed, +however, it will be the other way around: Since... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016871.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016871.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad2c6545ff554f7671282eab10ac9fedbb283b53 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016871.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Similarly, we should analyze what could go wrong with Al to ensure +that it goes right. Outlook +In summary, if our technology outpaces the wisdom with which we manage it, it can lead +to our extinction. Homo sapiens is inspiringly ambitious, as reflected in +William Ernest Henley's famous lines from Invictus: "I am the master of my fate, / I am +the captain of my soul." Rather than drifting like a rudderless ship toward our own +obsolescence, let's take on and overcome the technical and societal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016872.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016872.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aff5cb518b9e21f5723277b1a0c65479a703fb33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016872.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Jaan Tallinn grew up in Estonia, becoming one of its few computer game developers, +when that nation was still a Soviet Socialist Republic. He locates the roots of the current Al +dissidence, paradoxically, among such pioneers of the Al field as Wiener, Alan Turing, +and I. In 012. he copaid is wil existentiale s d in amid the mas extreme of +interdisciplinary research institute that works to mitigate risks "associated with +emerging technologies and human activity" — at the University of Cambridge,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016873.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016873.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa0b3884717e81e6dc222ddb3e0d2bf1b100cc4b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016873.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +DISSIDENT MESSAGES +Jaan Tallinn +Jaan Tallin, a computer programmer, theoretical physicist, and investor, is a co- +developer of Skype and Kazaa. In March 2009, I found myself in a bland franchise eatery next to a noisy California +freeway. To make +himself recognizable, he wore a button with a text on it: Speak the truth even if your voice +trembles. His name was Eliezer Yudkowsky, and we spent the next four hours discussing +the message he had for the world—a message that had brought me to that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016874.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016874.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2759950d326d360f8ba3ad7d2aaa5935e9e025f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016874.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +mainstream groups, who had more to lose, initially qualified and diluted the message, +taking positions like, "It would make sense in the long term to delegate control over local +matters." (There were always exceptions: Some public intellectuals proclaimed the +original dissident message verbatim.) Finally, the original message being, simply, +true won out over its diluted versions. The people who took the risk and spoke the truth in Estonia and elsewhere in the +Eastern Bloc played a monumental... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016875.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016875.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae28408971415b7d90a612627766a1d3505b6802 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016875.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made, or +will be acceptable to us.") Apparently, the original dissidents promulgating the Al-risk +message were the Al pioneers themselves! Evolution's Fatal Mistake +There have been many arguments, some sophisticated and some less so, for why the +Control Problem is real and not some science-fiction fantasy. Allow me to offer one that +illustrates the magnitude of the problem: +For the last hundred thousand years, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016876.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016876.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50d876d7fa3a3238f0228c84c9b24b333d27a0b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016876.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In +relation to the timeline of the first dissident message, I'd say we're around the year 1988, +when raising the Soviet-occupation topic was no longer a career-ending move but you +still had to somewhat hedge your position. I hear similar hedging now — statements like, +"I'm not concerned about superintelligent Al, but there are some real ethical issues in +increased automation," or "It's good that some people are researching Al risk, but it's not +a short-term concern," or even the very reasonable... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016877.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016877.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..38f78fd2f2a4872d69027df01d600fd8c3d0a946 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016877.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Calibrating the Al-Risk Message +While uncannily prescient, the Al-risk message from the original dissidents has a giant +flaw—as does the version dominating current public discourse: Both considerably +understate the magnitude of the problem as well as AI's potential upside. I'm reminded of Yudkowsky's quip in +a blog post: "[A]sking about the effect of machine superintelligence on the conventional +human labor market is like asking how US-Chinese trade patterns would be affected by +the Moon... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016878.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016878.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2b5a15b6b8527a04ed3e046e04eb32155fe4133 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016878.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +concept of "Pareto-topia": the idea that Al, if done right, can bring about a future in +which everyone's lives are hugely improved, a future where there are no losers. Hope +As of this writing, I'm cautiously optimistic that the Al-risk message can save humanity +from extinction, just as the Soviet-occupation message ended up liberating hundreds of +millions of people. I'm delighted to see the first technical Al-safety papers coming out of DeepMind, +OpenAI, and Google Brain and the collaborative... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016879.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016879.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e33e60adc0188589851ec62bb49885b6d46e30b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016879.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Throughout his career, whether studying language, advocating a realistic biology of +mind, or examining the human condition through the lens of humanistic Enlightenment +ideas, psychologist Steven Pinker has embraced and championed a naturalistic +understanding of the universe and the computational theory of mind. He is perhaps the +first internationally recognized public intellectual whose recognition is based on the +advocacy of empirically based thinking about language, mind, and human nature.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016880.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016880.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9146b3d665b5120a2d8e7b5cfbcfd72d6d0f3f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016880.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +TECH PROPHECY AND THE UNDERAPPRECIATED CAUSAL POWER OF +IDEAS +Steven Pinker +Steven Pinker, a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at +Harvard University, is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual +cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He is the author of eleven books, +including The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and, most recently, +Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Humanly designed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016881.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016881.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..467267a0a8e2344f9065d036a668167d54611bf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016881.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Indeed, Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history, +politics, and society, ideas matter. An analysis of society in terms of its propagation of ideas also gave Wiener a +guideline for social criticism. Wiener thus +described himself as "a participant in a liberal outlook," and devoted most of the moral +and rhetorical energy in the book (both the 1950 and 1954 editions) to denouncing +communism, fascism, McCarthyism, militarism, and authoritarian religion... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016882.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016882.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f48cf86887939f1b2a54e863b3cbfedc82080bc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016882.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the +liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. Orwell's telescreens are the prototype, and in 1976 +Joseph Weizenbaum, one of the gloomiest tech prophets of all time, warned my class of +graduate students not to pursue automatic speech recognition because government +surveillance was its only conceivable application +Though I am on record as an outspoken civil libertarian,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016883.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016883.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..448b8b235fd8ff97e5746d8944b566771fb5200b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016883.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In contrast, technologically advanced societies have long had the means to install +Internet-connected, government-monitored surveillance cameras in every bar and +bedroom. Yet that has not happened, because democratic governments (even the current +American administration, with its flagrantly antidemocratic impulses) lack the will and +the means to enforce such surveillance on an obstreperous people accustomed to saying +what they want. By sowing panic about supposed existential threats such... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016884.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016884.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ac3235a8b558d105e393102b07be4cd2f6e2c9b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016884.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +But these scenarios are based on a confusion of intelligence with motivation-of +beliefs with desires, inferences with goals, the computation elucidated by Turing and the +control elucidated by Wiener. Intelligence is the +ability to deploy novel means to attain a goal. But the goals are extraneous to the +intelligence: Being smart is not the same as wanting something. It just so happens that +the intelligence in Homo sapiens is a product of Darwinian natural selection, an +inherently competitive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016885.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016885.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21771bfee6f95a468cc7f809ff3a5913df1f4f2e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016885.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Many +of the successes come not from a better understanding of the workings of intelligence but +from the brute-force power of faster chips and Bigger Data, which allow the programs to +be trained on millions of examples and generalize to similar new ones. Of course, one can always imagine a +Doomsday Computer that 1s malevolent, universally empowered, always on, and +tamperproof. The way to deal with this threat is straightforward: Don't build one. What about the newer Al threat, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016886.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016886.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..625e526455058f6f66b66d4603b685bc4e04a06e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016886.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As a result, governments and engineers used feedback from accident statistics +to implement countless regulations, devices, and design changes that made technology +progressively safer. The fact that some regulations (such as using a cell phone near a gas +pump) are ludicrously risk-averse underscores the point that we have become a society +obsessed with safety, with fantastic benefits as a result: Rates of industrial, domestic, and +transportation fatalities have fallen by more than 95 (and often... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016887.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016887.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ac467c332032260de2313967d1e1089b31db8b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016887.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Central to the future of these developments is physicist David +Deutsch, the founder of the field of quantum computation, whose 1985 paper on +universal quantum computers was the first full treatment of the subject; the Deutsch- +Jozsa algorithm was the first quantum algorithm to demonstrate the enormous potential +power of quantum computation. When he initially proposed it, quantum computation seemed practically +impossible. He has +made many other important contributions in areas such as quantum... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016888.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016888.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c32ef4b1e0c49ec1df3cba80e0ce72e506448052 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016888.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +BEYOND REWARD AND PUNISHMENT +David Deutsch +David Deutsch is a quantum physicist and a member of the Centre for Quantum +Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. He is the author of The +Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. First Murderer: +We are men, my liege. Macbeth: +Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men, +As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, +Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept +All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare - Macbeth +For most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016889.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016889.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f4b7f454698f91f21fca3d8d3e977cacec03329 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016889.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Those are also the processes by which all new knowledge is created: They are how we +innovate, make progress, and create abstract understanding for its own sake. This is +human-level intelligence: thinking. Here I'll reserve the term "thinking" for processes +that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper's argument implies that +all thinking entities-human or not, biological or artificial -must create such knowledge +in fundamentally the same way. Misconceptions about human thinking... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016890.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016890.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cb3a66a006dc1d84b59253da1a553b4aa5005e4d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016890.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +did not extinguish innovation as efficiently as it was extinguished among our forebears in +prehistory for thousands of centuries.28 +That is why I say that prehistoric people, at least, were barely people. Both before +and after becoming perfectly human both physiologically and in their mental potential, +they were monstrously inhuman in the actual content of their thoughts. I'm not referring +to their crimes or even their cruelty as such: Those are all too human. Things like "the thumbscrew and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016891.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016891.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..611805892380eabcd1c6691bb17c7e39ae40de37 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016891.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing's +first design for one in 1948 and today's, has been brought about by ingeniously confining +the program's attention (or making it confine its attention) ever more narrowly to +branches likely to lead to that immutable goal. Then those branches are evaluated +according to that goal. That is a good approach to developing an Al with a fixed goal under fixed +constraints. And that is diametrically the +wrong approach if we're seeking a better... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016892.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016892.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f452e291b930c8039a86029ca5de30131a34c7c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016892.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The moral component, the cultural component, the element of free will-all make +the task of creating an AGI fundamentally different from any other programming task. It's much more akin to raising a child. Unlike all present-day computer programs, an +AGI has no specifiable functionality — no fixed, testable criterion for what shall be a +successful output for a given input. Having its decisions dominated by a stream of +externally imposed rewards and punishments would be poison to such a program,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016893.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016893.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5f898fa08d6e5041f775b44e4262abe2094e2129 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016893.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +How does one test for thinking? One might imagine a vast collaborative project on the Internet, where +an Al hones its thinking abilities in conversations with human judges and becomes an +AGI. There is no reason to expect +And how does one test for disobedience? Imagine Disobedience as a compulsory +school subject, with daily disobedience lessons and a disobedience test at the end of term. +(Presumably with extra credit for not turning up for any of that.) This is paradoxical. So, despite its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016894.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016894.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cb9510499146fccf1781fea25c0f727c1d508a57 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016894.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Tom Griffiths' approach to the Al issue of "value alignment" the study of how, +exactly, we can keep the latest of our serial models of Al from turning the planet into +paper clips is human-centered; i.e., that of a cognitive scientist, which is what he is. The key to machine learning, he believes, is, necessarily, human learning, which he +studies at Princeton using mathematical and computational tools. Tom once remarked to me that "one of the mysteries of human intelligence is that +we're able to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016895.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016895.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6001954666896452a89711718cd740fec47b43f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016895.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +THE ARTIFICIAL USE OF HUMAN BEINGS +Tom Griffiths +Tom Griffiths is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, +and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of +Algorithms to Live By. But one thing doesn't vary: the presence of +human beings. That's certainly what Norbert Wiener imagined when he wrote about the +potential of machines to improve human society by interacting with humans and helping +to mediate their interactions with one another. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016896.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016896.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0f2ee40aec18d5aec11c980bb176c9cbb89f2653 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016896.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Modern machine-learning systems can find extremely effective strategies for playing +computer games-from simple arcade games to complex real-time strategy games-by +applying reinforcement-learning algorithms. Inverse reinforcement learning turns this +approach around: By observing the actions of an intelligent agent that has already +learned effective strategies, we can infer the rewards that led to the development of those +strategies. In its simplest form, inverse reinforcement learning is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016897.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016897.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1963563d268c13c53208286ee485538157b7214 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016897.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +However, when it comes to understanding the human +mind, these two goals accuracy and generalizability— have long been at odds with each +other. At the far extreme of generalizability are rational theories of cognition. These +theories describe human behavior as a rational response to a given situation. The problem with rationality as a basis for modeling human cognition is that it is +not accurate. In the domain of decision making, an extensive literature-spearheaded by +the work of cognitive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016898.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016898.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..763dda0ffaf1880be28c9d845dc5ef0e7855d140 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016898.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Real agents need to modulate the amount of time they +spend thinking by the effect the extra thought has on the results of a decision. If you're +trying to choose a toothbrush, you probably don't need to consider all four thousand +listings for manual toothbrushes on Amazon.com before making a purchase: You trade +off the time you spend looking with the difference it makes in the quality of the outcome. This trade-off can be formalized, resulting in a model of rational behavior that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016899.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016899.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..325401fc569951ded5699fa72b7db9690688d466 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016899.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +for interpreting images and text have resulted from developing good models for vision +and language. Developing good models of people is the next frontier. Of course, understanding how human minds work isn't just a way to make +computers better at interacting with people. The trade-off between making mistakes and +thinking too much that characterizes human cognition is a trade-off faced by any real- +world intelligent agent. We're quite good at +developing strategies that allow us to solve problems... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016900.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016900.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c00b9df425df24ab7d4552d8b388d75bcbc8038a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016900.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Romanian-born Anca Dragan's research focuses on algorithms that will enable robots +to work with, around, and in support of people. She runs the InterACT Laboratory at +Berkeley, where her students work across different applications, from assistive robots to +manufacturing to autonomous cars, and draw from optimal control, planning, estimation, +learning, and cognitive science. Barely into her thirties herself, she has co-authored a +number of papers with her veteran Berkeley colleague and mentor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016901.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016901.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5366a3e04d9f8a7543bbc1e03c840274d19ec98b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016901.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +PUTTING THE HUMAN INTO THE AI EQUATION +Anca Dragan +Anca Dragan is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and +Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She co-founded and serves on the steering +committee for the Berkeley Al Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in +Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible Al. At the core of artificial intelligence is our mathematical definition of what an Al agent (a +robot) is. When we define a robot, we define states, actions,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016902.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016902.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f5552e9b761c7b907a1fa11f0d79f1caaf9da93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016902.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When it comes to real robots helping real people, the standard definition of Al +fails us, for two fundamental reasons: First, optimizing the robot's reward function in +isolation is different from optimizing it when the robot acts around people, because +people take actions too. We make decisions in service of our own interests, and these +decisions dictate what actions we execute. Moreover, we reason about the robot—that is, +we respond to what we think it's doing or will do and what we think its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016903.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016903.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08edfa447f26727beb9705e37fcd4e067dee9b48 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016903.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +This need to understand human actions and decisions applies to physical and +nonphysical robots alike. If either sort bases its decision about how to act on the +assumption that a human will do one thing but the human does something else, the +resulting mismatch could be catastrophic. One alternative is for the robot not to predict human actions but instead just +protect against the worst-case human action. Our state definition can't just include the physical position of humans in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016904.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016904.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa6421a4865f9a07292dd7638681a60082342e4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016904.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The more that people know about the robot, the easier it +is to coordinate with it. Achieving action compatibility will require robots to anticipate human actions, +account for how those actions will influence their own, and enable people to anticipate +robot actions. The Value Alignment Problem: People hold the key to the robot's reward function. Progress on enabling robots to optimize reward puts more burden on us, the designers, to +give them the right reward to optimize in the first place.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016905.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016905.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0be5853778e996487085d53f54dced9d8eff4a64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016905.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In short, we need to enable robots to reason about us—to see us as something +more than obstacles or perfect game players. We need them to take our human nature +into account, so that they are well coordinated and well aligned with us. If we succeed, +we will indeed have tools that substantially increase our quality of life. +102 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016905 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016906.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016906.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10955e2a7e214b3787a52ce46b4d171b5bf3b09c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016906.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Chris Anderson's company, 3DR, helped start the modern drone industry and now +focuses on drone data software. He got his start building an open-source aerial robotics +community called DIY Drones, and undertook some ill-advised early experiments, such +as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying spies. It +may well have been a case of antic gene-expression, since he's descended from a founder +of the American Anarchist movement. Chris ran Wired magazine, a go-to publication... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016907.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016907.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ab36e1d72087e217ef369439da437b72dacdc439 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016907.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +GRADIENT DESCENT +Chris Anderson +Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-founder and +CEO of 3DR; and author of The Long Tail, Free, and Makers. Life +The mosquito first detects my scent from thirty feet away. First, move in a random direction. If the +scent increases, continue moving in that direction. Repeat until contact with the target is achieved +The plume of my scent is densest next to me and disperses as it spreads, an +invisible fog of particles exuded from my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016908.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016908.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..de1409aa55064b959390dc1ea5ffd892a16ec6da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016908.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Forget clockwork analogies; our brains are closer to a system of canals and locks, with +signals traveling like water from one state to another. As I sit here typing, I'm actually seeking equilibrium states in an n-dimensional +topology of gradients. The answer is just more gradient descent. Our Brains +As miraculous and inscrutable as our human intelligence is, science is coming around to +the view that our brains operate the same way as any other complex system with layers +and feedback loops, all... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016909.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016909.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b7cd5f558baa540f226392ab711abe2684fc328c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016909.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This is +called "supervised learning," because the neural network is being taught by example, +including the use of "adversarial training" with data that is not correlated to the desired +result. These neural networks, like their biological models, consist of layers of thousands +of nodes ("neurons," in the analogy), each of which is connected to all the nodes in the +layers above and below by connections that initially have random strength. The top layer +is presented with data, and the bottom layer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016910.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016910.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d204191c110c0e3ad110bca4460a9edf2085a8e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016910.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Just because Al systems sometimes end up in local minima, don't conclude that this +makes them any less like life. Take our understanding of the game of Go, which was taught and learned and +optimized by humans for thousands of years. It took Als less than three years to find out +that we'd been playing it wrong all along and that there were better, almost alien, +solutions to the game which we'd never considered —mostly because our brains don't +have the processing power to consider so many moves... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016911.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016911.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd8a1e892eac208923c426817a4c54938f9095e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016911.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +David Kaiser is a physicist atypically interested in the intersection of his science with +politics and culture, about which he has written widely. In the first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this +book, he commented on the change in how "information" is viewed since Wiener's time: +the military-industrial, Cold War era. Today, whereas (as Wiener might have expected) information, fake or not, is +leaking all over the other Washington, information in the economic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016912.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016912.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb37f006600109d5c8947ed9b7af9aa4f54b401d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016912.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"INFORMATION" FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US +David Kaiser +David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of +physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the +author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum +Revival and American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). In The Sleepwalkers, a sweeping history of scientific thought from ancient times through +the Renaissance, Arthur... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016913.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016913.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4619d03a1509cf1f6f45f94eb44557363c418433 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016913.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly that he would not "publish any future work of mine +which may do damage in the hands of irresponsible militarists."30 He remained +ambivalent about the transformative power of new technologies, indulging in neither the +boundless hype nor the digital utopianism of later pundits. He was concerned about human-made restrictions as well as +technological ones, especially Cold War restrictions that threatened the flow of +information so critical to cybernetic systems:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016914.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016914.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c72babd60268ea57b987c097977c19162d8c4e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016914.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If information qua entropy could not be conserved, then Wiener concluded it was +folly for military leaders to try to stockpile the "scientific know-how of the nation in +static libraries and laboratories." Indeed, "no amount of scientific research, carefully +recorded in books and papers, and then put into our libraries with labels of secrecy, will +be adequate to protect us for any length of time in a world where the effective level of +information is perpetually advancing." Any such efforts at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016915.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016915.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e410928379850eb8a5c93b1cc9628bebfa1758bc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016915.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Heaven save us likewise from the mathematical papers which are +correct and elegant but without body or spirit." Wiener's treatment of "information" +sounded more like Matthew Arnold in 186932 than Claude Shannon in 1948-more +"body and spirit" than "bit." Wiener shared Arnold's Romantic view of the "content +producer" as well. To Wiener, this was the proper measure of "information": body, spirit, aspiration, +expression. Yet to argue against its commodification, Wiener reverted again to +Shannon's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016916.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016916.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d988ca4c5d2762ab43c1bb1294780af5539819df --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016916.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +To be sure, some recent achievements in artificial intelligence have been +remarkably impressive. Computers can now produce visual artworks and musical +compositions akin to those of recognized masters, creating just the sort of "information" +that Wiener most prized. But by far the largest impact on society to date has come from +the collection and manipulation of Shannon-like information, which has reshaped our +shopping habits, political participation, personal relationships, expectations of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016917.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016917.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6d16616b31b3abb1e87b91726d92ae1e4ca6322 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016917.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In the aforementioned Connecticut discussion on The Human Use of Human Beings, Neil +Gershenfeld provided some fresh air, of a kind, by professing that he hated the book, +which remark was met by universal laughter— as was his observation that computer +science was one the worst things to happen to computers, or science. His overall +contention was that Wiener missed the implications of the digital revolution that was +happening around him although some would say this charge can't be leveled... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016918.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016918.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7becb00e1f9fa6420e1a23f4577e3127154a430d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016918.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +SCALING +Neil Gershenfeld +Neil Gershenfeld is a physicist and director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is +the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of +Designing Reality, and founder of the global fab lab network. Discussions about artificial intelligence have been oddly ahistorical. They could better +be described as manic-depressive; depending on how you count, we're now in the fifth +boom-bust cycle. Those swings mask the continuity in the underlying... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016919.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016919.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e42bc1a07f47ad3226701e89d4d493bc0fc807c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016919.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +something much more significant than speculating at the time: He was laying the +foundations for the digital revolution. As a graduate student at MIT, he worked for +Vannevar Bush on the Differential Analyzer. This was one of the last great analog +computers, a room full of gears and shafts. After MIT, Shannon studied communications at Bell Labs. Rather +than continue to improve them incrementally, Shannon showed in 1948 that by +communicating with symbols rather than continuous quantities, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016920.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016920.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a87485de99befdf46d26765d7db20eb064330729 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016920.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +It's +not possible to store all possible images in a self-driving car, or all possible sounds in a +conversational computer; they have to be able to generalize from experience. It turned out that a linear increase +in network complexity led to an exponential increase in the expressive power of the +If you lose your keys in a room, you can search for them. If you're not sure +which room they're in, you have to search all the rooms in a building. If you're not sure +which building they're in, you have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016921.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016921.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85a6c6bd342f9ebd3668592da36e54bb7a503d78 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016921.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Declarative design rests on all the advances in Al, plus the improving fidelity of +simulations to virtually test designs. The way we're +designed resides in one of the oldest and most conserved parts of the genome, called the +Hox genes. These are genes that regulate genes, in what are called developmental +programs. This is an exact parallel to +how search is done in Al. The Hox genes are a +representation of a productive place for evolutionary search. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016922.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016922.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c8eda96c631672141ff6305db8b5690b4bddaba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016922.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Von Neumann and Turing posed their questions as theoretical studies, because it +was beyond the technology of their day to realize them. But with the convergence of +communication and computation with fabrication, these investigations are now becoming +accessible experimentally. The prospect of physically self-reproducing automata is potentially much scarier +than fears of out-of-control Al, because it moves the intelligence out here to where we +live. It could be a roadmap leading to Terminator's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016923.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016923.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48b57bbbde1fe1e7c31a3759906d186fd1076cc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016923.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +While Danny Hillis was an undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10, 000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it's now in the +Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. As a graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence +Laboratory in the early 1980s, Danny designed a massively parallel computer with +64,000 processors. He named it the Connection Machine and founded what may have +been the first Al company-... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016924.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016924.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..027104e3a190773ea4abe2485e59e640e9aae502 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016924.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Daniel "Danny" Hillis is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge +Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the +Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. What is used as an element in a machine, +is in fact an element in the machine. The hour is very late, and the choice of good and +evil knocks at our door. +-Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings +Norbert Wiener was ahead of his time in recognizing the potential danger of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016925.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016925.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f964357aa61b180348ed296300689589a843ed77 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016925.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Any American knows how loose the tie is between the actions of the U.S. +government and the diverse and often contradictory aims of its citizens. That is also true +of corporations. For-profit corporations nominally serve multiple constituencies, +including shareholders, senior executives, employees, and customers. These corporations +differ in how they balance their loyalties and often behave in ways that serve none of +their constituents. The +emergent corporate goals do not always reflect the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016926.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016926.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..19f5cdd490e297d797a8666f7f182afda868133c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016926.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This geographical division of authority made logical sense when most of the +actors were humans who spent their lives within a single nation state, but now that the +actors of importance include geographically distributed hybrid intelligences such as +multinational corporations, that logic is less obvious. Today we live in a complex +transitional period, when distributed superintelligences still largely rely on the nation +states to settle the arguments arising among them. It is becoming more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016927.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016927.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5c264d80b1783d07777c219897931a8cf4b6907 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016927.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Humans might be seen as minor +annoyances, like ants at a picnic, but hybrid superintelligences— like corporations, +organized religions, and nation states- could be existential threats. Like hybrid +superintelligences, Als might see humans mostly as useful tools to accomplish their +goals, as pawns in their competition with the other superintelligences. Or we might +simply be irrelevant. Our most complex +machines, like the Internet, have already grown beyond the detailed understanding of a +single... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016928.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016928.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..661177a2361b2bc80cb6609054b4f7d5211ba66a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016928.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The weak +forces that control the rudder are as real and physical as the strong forces that toss the +ship. If we shift our cybernetics perspective from the ship to the helmsman, the pressures +on the rudder become a strong force of muscles controlled by the weak signals in the +mind of the helmsman. These messages in the helmsman's mind are amplified into a +physical force strong enough to steer the ship. "Information," he said, "is a name for +the content of what is exchanged with the outer world... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016929.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016929.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..282b26ffcf1d22b79fc7212740305d8c5510f8c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016929.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an +analogy of structure between the controller and the controlled. By the 1930s, Kurt Gödel, +Alonzo Church, and Alan Turing had all described universal systems of computation, in +which the computation required no structural analogy to functions that were computed. The analogy of structure between the controller and the controlled was central to +the cybernetic perspective. Ashby's Law does not +imply that every controller must model... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016930.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016930.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8437328498181d1cee4b984bae2aab5a836b4f6b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016930.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose many scientific +contributions include his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome in effect, a huge +molecular machine that reads our genes and makes proteins. The Internet made his own work a lot easier +and, he notes, acted as a leveler internationally: "When I grew up in India, if you wanted +to get a book, it would show up six months or a year after it had already come out in the +West. ... I didn't have to +deal with it, because I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016931.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016931.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ee55e541b4720ef433baf082d598298bde76f30 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016931.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Venki Ramakrishnan +Venki Ramakrishnan is a scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of +Molecular Biology, Cambridge University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry +(2009); current president of the Royal Society; and the author of Gene Machine: The +Race to Discover the Secrets of the Ribosome. For quite a long +time, both Hollywood movies and scientific Jeremiahs have been predicting our eventual +capitulation to our computer overlords. I can see and talk to my grandson in New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016932.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016932.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ade7b28197714e786bf041f317f0aa50193c4f07 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016932.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Such a deep-learning program was used to teach a computer to play Go, a game +that only a few years ago was thought to be beyond the reach of AI because it was so +hard to calculate how well you were doing. It seemed that top Go players relied a great +deal on intuition and a feel for position, so proficiency was thought to require a +particularly human kind of intelligence. But the AlphaGo program produced by +DeepMind, after being trained on thousands of high-level Go games played by humans +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016933.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016933.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a56c2f5e7abf79c3cf787b432eb75d17b4c1df4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016933.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +We have been giving away valuable data for the sake of freebies like Gmail +and Facebook, but as the journalist and author John Lanchester has pointed out in the +London Review of Books, if it is free, then you are the product. One way around the monopolistic control +of data is to split the ownership of data away from firms that use them. Finally, abuse of data is not limited to corporations: In +totalitarian states, or even nominally democratic ones, governments know things about +their citizens... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016934.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016934.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a4de78f7249fb5672d820074414686eaa0f0368 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016934.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Sadly, Keynes's predictions did not come true. Although productivity did indeed +increase, the system-possibly inherent in a market economy-did not result in humans +working much shorter hours. Rather, what happened is what the anthropologist and +anarchist David Graeber describes as the growth of "bullshit jobs."34 While jobs that +produce essentials like food, shelter, and goods have been largely automated away, we +have seen an enormous expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016935.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016935.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1659307971f0720f645820ba17434caee2ca8d26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016935.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +So when our computers +generate a result, we feel that we intellectually grasp it. The new machine-learning programs are different. Having recognized patterns +via deep neural networks, they come up with conclusions, and we have no idea exactly +how. When they uncover relationships, we don't understand it in the same way as if we +had deduced those relationships ourselves using an underlying theoretical framework. So if +someone asks us how we know something, we will simply say it is because the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016936.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016936.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33842262ec6895191a352606b9573b3d30119601 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016936.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Many evolutionary scientists, and such philosophers as Daniel Dennett, have +pointed out that the human brain is the result of billions of years of evolution 35 Human +intelligence is not the special characteristic we think it is, but just another survival +mechanism not unlike our digestive or immune systems, both of which are also +amazingly complex. However, as Descartes stated, we humans define our very existence by our +ability to think. So it is not surprising that, in an anthropomorphic way,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016937.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016937.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c1a7c78316f95d01787dacb55f89a36f46d6213 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016937.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Alex "Sandy" Pentland, an exponent of what he has termed "social physics," is +interested in building powerful human-Al ecologies. The advent of Big Data, he believes, has given us the opportunity to reinvent our +civilization: "We can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and +how those play out, and we're no longer limited to averages like market indices or +election results. The ability to see the details of the +market, of political revolutions, and to be able to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016938.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016938.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..feb6405c370686eb65dab780db2f03cdbdf5f3ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016938.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +THE HUMAN STRATEGY +Alex "Sandy" Pentland +Alex "Sandy" Pentland is Toshiba Professor and professor of media arts and sciences, +MIT; director of the Human Dynamics and Connection Science labs and the Media Lab +Entrepreneurship Program, and the author of Social Physics. In the last half-century, the idea of Al and intelligent robots has dominated thinking about +the relationship between humans and computers. In part, this is because it's easy to tell +the stories about Al and robots, and in part... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016939.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016939.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c01117cba006f793fe34c6bfe0c25da388b2f6c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016939.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Development of human-Al ecosystems is perhaps inevitable for a social species +such as ourselves. We became social early in our evolution, millions of years ago. Now we're developing AI +and machine-learning models of ecosystems and sharing the predictions of those models +to jointly shape our world through new laws and international agreements. The opportunities for +such a human-Al ecology to have positive social impact through fairer and more +transparent decisions are obvious. The choices we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016940.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016940.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2dc898e65ef19b6d143dd78e975be2415340d16c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016940.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +That's in huge contrast to normal Al, which requires millions of training +examples and is very sensitive to noise. Similar to the physical-systems case, if we make neurons that know a lot about +how humans learn from each other, then we can detect human fads and predict human +behavior trends in surprisingly accurate and efficient ways. This "social physics" works +because human behavior is determined as much by the patterns of our culture as by +rational, individual thinking. This idea of a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016941.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016941.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1dd45a7fce081536ea6d3b1c8af8c2c94c61038f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016941.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Social sampling, very simply, is looking around you at the actions of people who +are like you, finding what's popular, and then copying it if it seems like a good idea to +you. Idea propagation has this popularity function driving it, but individual adoption also +is about figuring out how the idea works for the individual— a reflective attitude. When +you combine social sampling and personal judgment, you get superior decision making. +all those Al techniques are doing with dumb computer neurons.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016942.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016942.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37f10b45fad0741092d6f17f7a257d0386b7c6d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016942.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The other is a fair, data-driven assessment of public norms, +policy, and government, based on trusted data about current conditions. This second +thread depends on availability of trusted data and so is just beginning to be developed +Trusted data and data-driven assessment of norms, policy, and government together +create a credit-assignment function that improves societies' overall fitness and +intelligence. It is precisely at the point of creating greater societal intelligence where fake +news,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016943.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016943.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d06292d248302cb9b6efca63ca77f9943890961 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016943.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +On Extreme Wealth +Some two hundred of the world's wealthiest people have pledged to give away more than +50 percent of their wealth either during their lifetimes or in their wills, creating a plurality +of voices in the foundation space. Bill Gates is probably the most familiar example. He's decided that if the government won't do it, he'll do it. This diversity of goals has created a lot +of what's wonderful about the world today. Actions from outside government by +organizations like the Ford... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016944.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016944.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20f0164839a60baa33902a53a05f6b4e731aa07f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016944.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If we have the data that go into and out of each decision, we can easily ask, Is this +a fair algorithm? Is this Al doing things that we as humans believe are ethical? This +human-in-the-loop approach is called "open algorithms;" you get to see what the Als take +as input and what they decide using that input. If you control the data, then you control the AI +One thing people often fail to mention is that all the worries about Al are the same +as the worries about today's government. Next-Generation... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016945.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016945.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b7ead5bd7fc7ba81af425a31cd20cc3bad9ec74f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016945.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +You and I have surprisingly general descriptive powers that we use for +understanding a wide range of situations, and we can recognize which connections should +be reinforced. That means we can shape our social networks to work much better and +potentially beat all that machine-based Al at its own game. +142 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016945 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016946.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016946.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7bb2e77edbf33a64409fd9b97e0a3106f673ac04 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016946.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"The great American visionary thinker John Brockman arrives +this morning at Grand Hotel Milan. The prior evening, waiting in the lounge at JFK, I had had the bright idea to write +my friend and longtime collaborator, the London-based, peripatetic art curator Hans +Ulrich Obrist (known to all as HUO), and ask if there was anyone in Milan I should +know. Once I was settled at the hotel, the phone began ringing and a procession of +leading Italian artists, designers, and architects called to request a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016947.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016947.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d804a6143b517666088505d882dcb5e57a68ab7e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016947.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: ART MEETS AI +Hans Ulrich Obrist +Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author +of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall +McLuhan noted the ability of art to "anticipate future social and technological +developments." Art is "an early alarm system," pointing us to new developments in +times ahead and allowing us... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016948.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016948.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06d10f9d3fe45a4000211cca2ae26ee878564b9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016948.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +When I asked him how he defined cybernetics, von Foerster answered: +The substance of what we have learned from cybernetics is to think in circles: A +leads B, B to C, but C can return to A. Today, where Al algorithms are applied in daily tasks, one can ask how the +human factor is included in these kinds of processes and what role creativity and art +could play in relation to them. Artificial Stupidity +Hito Steyerl, an artist who works with documentary and experimental film, considers two +key... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016949.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016949.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ebb7dea0ca3a6cc95a646de67b741a5f5be2e99 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016949.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Visible / Invisible +The artist Paul Klee often talked about art as "making the invisible visible." In computer +technology, most algorithms work invisibly, in the background; they remain inaccessible +in the systems we use daily. The ways that the deep-learning algorithms of Al are +processing data have been made visible through applications like Google's DeepDream, +in which the process of computerized pattern-recognition is visualized in real time. There are many other AI visualization programs... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016950.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016950.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73bb8d9cd02dfb23ef9dd25ab7586b2bb0a147c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016950.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Computers, as a Tool for Creativity, Can't Replace the Artist. Rachel Rose, a video artist who thinks about the questions posed by Al, employs +computer technology in the creation of her works. She also talks about the importance of decision making in her work. In a converation we had, together with +the engineer Kenric McDowell, at the Google Cultural Institute, she explained this by +citing a story from theater director Peter Brook's 1968 book The Empty Space. When +Brook designed the set for his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016951.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016951.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad6592305b35c19bee4a2353d475359a40304d22 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016951.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Cybernetics / Art +Suzanne Treister is an artist whose work from 2009 to 2011 serves as an example of what +is happening at the intersection of our current technologies, the arts, and cybernetics. Treister has been a pioneer in digital art since the 1990s, inventing, for example, +imaginary video games and painting screen shots from them. In her project Hexen 2.0 +she looked back at the famous Macy conferences on cybernetics that between 1946 and +1953 were organized in New York by engineers and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016952.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016952.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d4bdae1ba456b9ebe88e27c881f8662aafe617a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016952.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Few, though, have taken the technologies and innovations of Al as the +underlying materials of their work and sculpted them to their own vision. He refers to these worlds as +Live Simulations. His Emissaries trilogy (2015-2017) is set in a fictional postapocalyptic +world of flora and fauna, in which Al-driven animals and creatures explore the landscape +and interact with each other. Through his trilogy, which charts a history of +consciousness, he asks the question "What is a simulation?" +While the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016953.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016953.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..968f0068c013a2c78fe2c2e217f4d174ce69577f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016953.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Stevini and John Latham, of the Artist Placement Group, took things a step further by +asserting that there should be artists in residence in every company and every +government. Today, these inspiring historical models can be applied to the field of Al. As Al comes to inhabit more and more of our everyday lives, the creation of a space that +is nondeterministic and non-utilitarian in its plurality of perspectives and diversity of +understandings will undoubtedly be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016954.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016954.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e50a8539931e4df7b25ec3deb57a51d5639a6bcc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016954.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Alison Gopnik is an international leader in the field of children's learning and +development and was one of the founders of the field of "theory of mind." She has +spoken of the child brain as a "powerful learning computer," perhaps from personal +experience. Her own Philadelphia childhood was an exercise in intellectual +development. "Other families took their kids to see The Sound of Music or Carousel; we +saw Racine's Phaedra and Samuel Beckett's Endgame," she has recalled. "Our family +read... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016955.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016955.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f86ec4306002c329456410a8e8e886e95b99687d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016955.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +AIs VERSUS FOUR-YEAR-OLDS +Alison Gopnik +Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The +Philosophical Baby and, most recently, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New +Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and +Children. Everyone's heard about the new advances in artificial intelligence, and especially +machine learning. You've also heard utopian or apocalyptic predictions about what those +advances mean. But the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016956.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016956.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10fa88c9d2ebebc644dcf4b99a47e0f253d01375 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016956.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Mill and later by behavioral psychologists, like Pavlov and B. All the work can be done by association and +pattern detection especially if there are enough data. Over time, there has been a seesaw between this bottom-up approach to the +mystery of learning and Plato's alternative, top-down one. Along with Plato, such "rationalist" philosophers +and psychologists as Descartes and Noam Chomsky took this approach. You notice that the spam messages tend +to have particular features: a long list of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016957.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016957.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9452d95e92d9bf0eeeedd70fdaebb5a3daecf820 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016957.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +That lets me recognize the classic Nigerian email spam, but it also lets me imagine many +different kinds of possible spam. When I get the journal email, I can work backward: +"This seems like just the kind of mail that would come out of a spam-generating +process." +The new excitement about Al comes because Al researchers have recently +produced powerful and effective versions of both these learning methods. Bottom-up Deep Learning +In the 1980s, computer scientists devised an ingenious way to get... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016958.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016958.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2678c0b5570dad81e675df903ccfcdaf4ad6f952 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016958.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Such systems, and +others involving techniques called generative adversarial networks, generate data as well +as observing data. When you have the computational power to apply those techniques to very large +data sets or millions of email messages, Instagram images, or voice recordings, you can +solve problems that seemed very difficult before. But it's worth remembering that those problems-like +recognizing that an image is a cat or a spoken word is "Siri" —are trivial for a human +toddler. One of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016959.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016959.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be3e2129bbfe98330deefc37aaf15526aedcf956 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016959.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The bottom-up method for recognizing handwritten characters is to give the +computer thousands of examples of each one and let it pull out the salient features. Instead, Lake et al. gave the program a general model of how you draw a character: A +stroke goes either right or left; after you finish one, you start another; and so on. When +the program saw a particular character, it could infer the sequence of strokes that were +most likely to have led to it-just as I inferred that the spam process led... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016960.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016960.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..11edf979a3af669cd071397aa83fd88d7a7f5688 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016960.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +You can show this in children's everyday learning, too. Young children rapidly +learn abstract intuitive theories of biology, physics, and psychology in much the way +adult scientists do, even with relatively little data. The remarkable machine-learning accomplishments of the recent Al systems, both +bottom-up and top-down, take place in a narrow and well-defined space of hypotheses +and concepts—a precise set of game pieces and moves, a predetermined set of images. In +contrast, children and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016961.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016961.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63fa8af1db504f8c3423a4ff92247cb6529ffae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016961.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +paradox of learning, the best artificial intelligences will be unable to compete with the +average human four-year-old. +158 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016961 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016962.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016962.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe7cd7645aa43d5fbdd69c989dba1956be00bd40 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016962.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Peter Galison's focus as a science historian is speaking roughly on the intersection of +theory with experiment. At the Washington, Connecticut, meeting +he discussed the Cold War tension between engineers (like Wiener) and the +administrators of the Manhattan Project (like Oppenheimer: "When [Wiener] warns +about the dangers of cybernetics, in part he's trying to compete against the kind of +portentous language that people like Oppenheimer [used]: 'When I saw the explosion at +Trinity, I thought of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016963.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016963.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b32ef5fe4f0d18e2b6dd795a8fa1ac9c0b47787c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016963.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ALGORISTS DREAM OF OBJECTIVITY +Peter Galison +Peter Galison is a science historian, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and co- +founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, and the author of Einstein's +Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. In his second-best book, the great medieval mathematician al-Khwarizmi described the +new place-based Indian form of arithmetic. His name, soon sonically linked to +"algorismus" (in late medieval Latin) came to designate procedures... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016964.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016964.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cbbe21b5544f9f492f69e5068c08127d3acf8866 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016964.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Anne Milgram served as Attorney General +of the State of New Jersey from 2007 to 2010. At the +time, she reports in a later TED Talk, she could find almost no data or analytics. By +imposing statistical prediction, she continues, law enforcement in Camden during her +tenure was able to reduce murders by 41 percent, saving thirty-seven lives, while +dropping the total crime rate by 26 percent. After joining the Arnold Foundation as its +vice president for criminal justice, she established a team of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016965.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016965.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6416b0f618535bb755d4b83bcdda651eecda02ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016965.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +No, you aimed—if you were a genius natural philosopher +like Goethe, Albinus, or Cheselden—to observe nature but then to perfect the object in +question, to abstract it visually to the ideal. Take a skeleton, view it through a camera +lucida, draw it with care. Then correct the "imperfections." The advantage of this +parting of the curtains of mere experience was clear: It provided a universal guide, one +not attached to the vagaries of individual variation. It was one thing to have Goethe depict... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016966.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016966.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ca340f7e4802eaf1abefdfe7783da6133a39b64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016966.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +There can be no royal road to becoming Goethe. In scientific atlas after +scientific atlas, one sees explicit argument that "subjective" factors had to be part of the +scientific work needed to create, classify, and interpret scientific images. What we see in so many of the algorists' claims is a tremendous desire to find +scientific objectivity precisely by abandoning judgment and relying on mechanical +procedures— in the name of scientific objectivity. Many American states have legislated +the use... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016967.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016967.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db85b5fb82ec71313c064f1ea8c57ce9d8c58504 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016967.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +from the history of the sciences: Judgment is not the discarded husk of a now pure +objectivity of self-restraint. And mechanical objectivity is a virtue competing among +others, not the defining essence of the scientific enterprise. They are lessons to bear in +mind, even if algorists dream of objectivity. +164 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016967 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016968.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016968.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cce422e85993fc16f849ca3f258a284abd6617f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016968.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Genetic engineer George +Church, a pioneer of the revolution in reading and writing biology, is central to this new +landscape of ideas. George created and is director of the Personal +Genome Project, which provides the world's only open-access information on human +genomic, environmental, and trait data (GET) and sparked the growing DNA ancestry +industry. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for President Obama's 2013 +BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016969.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016969.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78557edcb8bd4b5c72952d28bc5c9fb544c0ef5d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016969.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Church is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical +School; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT; and co-author +(with Ed Regis) of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and +Ourselves. In 1950, Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings was at the cutting edge of +vision and speculation in proclaiming that +the machine like the djinnee, which can learn and can make decisions on the +basis of its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016970.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016970.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ab4f5e8767a7b9cd21f4ab9273c1b589a56d8a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016970.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +division has been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and +others. We can discuss "should" if framed as "we should do X in order to achieve Y." +Which Y should be a high priority is not necessarily settled by democratic vote but might +be settled by Darwinian vote. Value systems and religions wax and wane, diversify, +diverge, and merge just as living species do: subject to selection. The ultimate "value" +(the "should") is survival of genes and memes. Conflicts between... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016971.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016971.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46047eb39b0acc3fcaa89ac178d3195838ea198d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016971.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Even the bright red line for human manipulation of human beings shows many +signs of moving or breaking completely. More than 2,300 approved clinical trials for +gene therapy are in progress worldwide. Another frontier of the human use of humans is "brain organoids." We can now +accelerate developmental biology. Conventional Computers versus Bio-electronic Hybrids +As Moore's Law miniaturization approaches its next speed bump (surely not a solid +wall), we see the limits of the stochastics of dopant... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016972.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016972.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9befd4f181f78a9dc13f0003192d53c97d79e27f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016972.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Bills of Rights date back to 1689 in England. FDR proclaimed the "Four +Freedoms" -freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom from fear, and freedom +from want. The U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 included the +right to life; the prohibition of slavery; defense of rights when violated; freedom of +movement; freedom of association, thought, conscience, and religion; social, economic, +and cultural rights; duties of the individual to society; and prohibition of use of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016973.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016973.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f4c1aaf657a16c2e07617787fa77a98ff20abc61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016973.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and +the Pursuit of Happiness"? In 1776, "Men" did +not include people of color or women. Even today, humans born with congenital +cognitive or behavioral issues are destined for unequal (albeit in most cases +compassionate) treatment-Down syndrome, Tay-Sachs disease, Fragile X syndrome, +cerebral palsy, and so on. Even Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has weighed in on this topic, supported by +experiments at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016974.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016974.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..226457ef15a233bfb4d8996e91fc2faa688a9a0b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016974.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If robots don't have exactly the same consciousness as humans, then this is used +as an excuse to give them different rights, analogous to arguments that other tribes or +races are less than human. Do robots already show free will? Are they already self- +conscious? The robots Qbo have passed the "mirror test" for self-recognition and the +robots NAO have passed a related test of recognizing their own voice and inferring their +internal state of being, mute or not. One could argue that this is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016975.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016975.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5db1409d50148961bbb0bd2113150cddc08838fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016975.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For "human subject research," we refer to the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, +keeping in mind the 1932-1972 Tuskegee syphilis experiment, possibly the most +infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history. In 2015, the Nonhuman Rights +Project filed a lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of two +chimpanzees kept for research by Stony Brook University. The appellate court decision +was that chimps are not to be treated as legal persons since they "do not have duties... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016976.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016976.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24401346feaaced1fc69147d025c82936e46ee6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016976.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The +philosophers and philosophies I'm drawn to are those that question the Western +obsession with individualism. Her MIT +course, "Automata, Automatism, Systems, Cybernetics," explores the history of the +human/machine interface in terms of feedback, exploring the cultural rather than +engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon, +and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of +artists, feminists, postmodern theorists.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016977.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016977.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2fd91d2a5f62df765cd1515d788047839563ec6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016977.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT +and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the +Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar +American Artist; and The Global Work of Art. Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is more important. +- Nam June Paik, 1966 +Artificial intelligence was not what artists first wanted out of cybernetics, once Norbert +Wiener's The Human Use of Human... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016978.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016978.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b24c14deeb2af11dd96e22b2f56d96446750c953 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016978.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +But the etymology does little to capture the excitement felt by participants, as +mathematics joined theoretical biology (Arturo Rosenblueth) and information theory +(Claude Shannon, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch) to produce a barrage of +interdisciplinary research and publications viewed as changing not just the way science +was done but the way future humans would engage with the technosphere. As Wiener +put it, "We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify +ourselves in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016979.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016979.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0adce3c5a88e6f40d1cfb8ca5566b29e3c19bd68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016979.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +What is significant is Pask's focus on the behaviors of +his automata, their interactivity, their responsiveness within an artificially modulated +environment, and their "reflection" of human behaviors. The ICA's "Cybernetic Serendipity" introduced an important paradigm: the +machinic ecosystem, in which the viewer was a biological part, tasked with figuring out +just what the triggers for interaction might be. This turn toward human-machine interactive environments as an aesthetic becomes +clearer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016980.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016980.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fad8c96ee0418753b91896d3641dbc355d47b02e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016980.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Humans felt they were encountering behaviors indicative of +responsive life; Tsai's entities were often classed as "vegetal" or "aquatic." Such +environmental and kinetic ambitions were widespread in the international art world of the +time. Beyond the stable at Howard Wise, there were the émigrés forming the collective +GRAV in Paris, the "cybernetic architectures" of Nicolas Schöffer, the light and plastic +gyrations of the German Zero Gruppe, and so on—all defining and informing the genre +of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016981.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016981.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cad9eeb41b4c329198f7eb0ba75482f43064af7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016981.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Dead Imagine, through its +large-scale and cubic "Platonic" form, remains both artificial and locked into the body — +refusing a detached "intelligence" as being no intelligence at all. In the +1955 proposal thought to be the first printed usage of the phrase "artificial intelligence," +computer scientist John McCarthy and his colleagues Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel +Rochester, and Claude Shannon conjectured that "every aspect of learning or any other +feature of intelligence can in principle be so... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016982.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016982.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c088917cc98b18150b5494d6762f8168fe7c939c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016982.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The artistic use of cybernetic beings also reminds us that consciousness itself is +not just "in here." It is streaming in and out, harmonizing those sensory, scintillating +signals. In Mary Catherine Bateson's paraphrase of her father Gregory's +second-order cybernetics, mind is material "not necessarily defined by a boundary such +as an envelope of skin."! We can stigmatize the stubborn arrogance of current Al as "right cybernetics," the +path that led to current automated weapons systems, Uber's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016983.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016983.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2dc3ae4654c1267b412933bd231aedaa33f2f524 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016983.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +movements of life partnered with an electro-mechanical and -magnetic technosphere. Life, in its mysterious negentropic entanglements with matter and Mind. +180 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT016983 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016984.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016984.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d786d05a83062aa782a157c5b554278bc9f2abaa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016984.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Over nearly four decades, Stephen Wolfram has been a pioneer in the development and +application of computational thinking and responsible for many innovations in science, +technology and business. His 1982 paper "Cellular Automata as Simple Self-Organizing Systems, " written +at the age of twenty-three, was the first of numerous significant scientific contributions +aimed at understanding the origins of complexity in nature. I had established +The Reality Club, an informal gathering of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016985.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016985.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c9796bb624051a33ce975536ef3d9371a58cd7f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016985.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION +Stephen Wolfram +Stephen Wolfram is a scientist, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram +Research. He is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its +programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine +Wolfram Alpha. He is also the author of A New Kind of Science. The following is an edited transcript from a live interview with him conducted in +December 2015. What's the future of the +human... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016986.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016986.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..88ec8c88e3cfbcb7e89fbb774612befc50b27e39 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016986.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +When we consider the future of Al, we need to think about the goals. That's what +humans contribute; that's what our civilization contributes. The execution of those goals +is what we can increasingly automate. What will the future of humans be in such a +world? What will there be for them to do? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016987.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016987.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9079d41da01dadd0d99454dbeeeb4ca1a3c4cc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016987.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but +through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn't do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning +device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the late sixties, +Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote a book titled Perceptrons, in which they +basically proved that perceptrons couldn't do anything interesting, which is correct. People said, +"These guys have written a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016988.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016988.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc26f3730042a16cb30edc3c91c2fd3d81c1829f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016988.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +There are all kinds of programs out there, even +tiny programs that do complicated things. Could we entrain them for some useful human +purpose? And how do you get Als to execute your goals? One answer is to just talk to +them, in the natural language of human utterances. It works pretty well when you're +talking to Siri. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016989.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016989.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..252b6bab6d2c11e7b6f237abac96e4d6967240e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016989.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +That could be done for twenty-six different possibilities, but it couldn't be done for ten +thousand. It was just a matter of scaling up the whole system that makes this possible +today. There are maybe five thousand picturable common nouns in English, ten thousand +if you include things like special kinds of plants and beetles which people would +o ones is or he is come did as easy neura +the network probably don't matter, but it takes about a quadrillion GPU operations to do +the training. Our... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016990.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016990.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77435a554682d09a76c6918ef7836b57982f62e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016990.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +mathematics, for example: Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica in 1910 was +the biggest showoff effort. There were previous attempts by Gottlob Frege and Giuseppe +Peano that were a little more modest in their presentation. Ultimately, they were wrong +in what they thought they should formalize: They thought they should formalize some +process of mathematical proof, which turns out not to be what most people care about. With regard to a modern analog of the Turing Test, it's an interesting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016991.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016991.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6237e8600c1f4b9a06c6de9c369ab8c16d061799 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016991.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +People worry about the scenario in which Als take over. The Al will know what you intend, and it will be +good at figuring out how to get there. My children like +to remind me that once when I had a very early GPS— the kind that told you, "Turn this +way, turn that way"—we ended up on one of the piers going out into Boston Harbor. More to the point is that there will be an Al that knows your history, and knows +that when you're ordering dinner online you'll probably want such-and-such, or when +you... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016992.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016992.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a7cdfee68dc533f7b9bdfb1b01f96e65d42f649c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016992.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +How do you teach computational thinking? In terms of how to do programming, +it's an interesting question. How did we achieve nanotechnology? Answer: We took technology as we understand it on a large scale and we made it very +small. How to make a CPU chip on the atomic scale? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016993.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016993.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4805a9b604622441c1f20037beab6781e9e3900 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016993.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +There's yet another level, and probably one day it will have a more interesting +name. Just as natural language gave us civilization, knowledge-based programming will +give us— what? One bad answer is that it will give us the civilization of the Als. That's +what we don't want to happen, because the Als will do a great job communicating with +one another and we'll be left out of it, because there's no intermediate language, no +interface with our brains. If you were Caveman Ogg and you were just... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016994.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016994.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ce631336d2762043090a5a01553ef7b24abc82e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016994.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Because what else would make a periodic signal? It turned out to be a rotating neutron +star. One criterion to apply to a potentially purposeful phenomenon is whether it's +minimal in achieving a purpose. But does that mean that it was built for the purpose? The ball rolls down the hill because of gravitational pull. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016995.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016995.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9aa719eb219ab8c1dfd097ed2078fe9d9ea714d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016995.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The difference is a detailed difference. This brainlike neural network was produced by the long history of civilization, whereas +the cellular automaton was created by my computer in the last microsecond +The problem of abstract Al is similar to the problem of recognizing +extraterrestrial intelligence: How do you determine whether or not it has a purpose? We'll say things like, "Well, AI will be +intelligent when it can do blah-blah-blah." When it can find primes. When it can +produce this and that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016996.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016996.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4fd1330bfc2a0ac3ae221287d7c448cb27199e81 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016996.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Sciencexpress +Research Article +Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books +Jean-Baptiste Michel, 12,3,4y Yuan Kui Shen,' Aviva Presser Aiden,' Adrian Veres,' Matthew K. Pickett,' Dale Hoiberg, '° Dan Clancy," Peter Norvig," Jon Orwant,® Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, 111,12 +Erez Lieberman Aiden 1,12,13,14,15,16 +Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Institute for Quantitative Social +Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016997.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016997.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39645f22740cf90b8118efcce685a0e09c10aa28 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016997.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +An n-gram is sequence of +1-grams, such as the phrases "stock market" (a 2-gram) and +"the United States of America" (a 5-gram). The corpus contains +386,434,758 words from 1861; thus the frequency is 5.5x10-5 +"slavery" peaked during the civil war (early 1860s) and then +again during the civil rights movement (1955-1968) (Fig. 1B) +In contrast, we compare the frequency of "the Great War" +to the frequencies of "World War I" and "World War II." "the +Great War" peaks between 1915 and 1941. But although... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016998.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016998.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..382480986513fdd2450bcf9a2f35c8825756dbf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016998.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Their mean frequency declined +throughout the 20th century, and dipped below 10-' decades +ago (Fig. 2D, Inset). The Evolution of Grammar +Next, we examined grammatical trends. We studied the +English irregular verbs, a classic model of grammatical +change (14-17). All irregular verbs coexist with regular competitors (e.g., +"strived" and "strove") that threaten to supplant them (Fig. +2E). For instance, we found +"found" (frequency: 5x10) 200,000 times more often than +we finded "finded." In contrast,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016999.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016999.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6252a917467ef95ea1591d2719a06acafee58954 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-016999.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +"In the Future, Everyone Will Be World Famous for 7.5 +Minutes" -Whatshisname +People, too, rise to prominence, only to be forgotten (22). Fame can be tracked by measuring the frequency of a +person's name (Fig. 3C). We compared the rise to fame of the +most famous people of different eras. We took all 740,000 +people with entries in Wikipedia, removed cases where +several famous individuals share a name, and sorted the rest +by birthdate and frequency (23). For example, the 1882 +cohort includes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017000.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6e26dc65245fe62f7e241c8dc3fafc3235ee3c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017000.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +This subpopulation is highly enriched for Nazis and +Nazi-supporters, who benefited immensely from government +propaganda (7). Culturomics +Culturomics is the application of high-throughput data +collection and analysis to the study of human culture. Culturomic results are a new type of evidence in the +humanities. Many +more fossils, with shapes no less intriguing, beckon: +(i) Peaks in "influenza" correspond with dates of known +pandemics, suggesting the value of culturomic methods for +historical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017001.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74c90cbe38ca2ed7db466cc76df2685fc3638694 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017001.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Web. 23 Aug. 2010. +. +24. Chicago: +Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002. +25. New York: New York Public Library, 1984. +26. Wider Den Undeutschen Geist: +Bücherverbrennung 1933. Los +Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991. +29. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017002.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ca16db8fe7a70d38b36c5917b69e37f13fcfd93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017002.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Inset: the regularity of +"chide" over time. (G) Median regularity of verbs whose past +tense is often signified with a -t suffix instead of -ed (burn, +smell, spell, spill, dwell, learn, and spoil) in US (black) and +UK (grey) books. Cultural turnover is accelerating. (A) We forget: +frequency of 1883 (blue), 1910 (green) and 1950 (red). Inset: The +telephone (green, date of invention: green arrow) and radio +(blue, date of invention: blue arrow). (C) Fame of various +personalities born between 1920... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017003.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b29d766dd116713fc197e2ae0ee826a0e18f715 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017003.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +129 million books +published +12 million books +scanned +5 million books +analyzed +R. North +1713 +Frequency of the +word "apple" +M. Twain +1884 +Year +B +le-4 +1.0 +— slavery +Frequency +0.5 +A. Kessel +1943 +0.0 +1800 +1850 +1950 +2000 +C +Frequency +1900 +Year +le-5 +3 +2 +— the Great War +World War I +World War lI +1 +1800 +1850 +1914 1939 +2000 +Year +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017003 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017004.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b1a8b9abe29c26d89812725845df0c6ecb2c8f04 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017004.txt @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +1M +Number of words +500K +0 +1900 +1950 +Decade +C +1e-8 +exaptation +netiquette +buckyball +phytonutrient +Frequency +6 +x10-8 +4 +2 +Median frequency +--e +words added to +AHD in 2000 +1800 +2000 +Decade +0 +1960 +1970 +1980 +Year +10 +chid/chode +chided +5.10 ' +0 +-6 +4.10 +sped +speeded +speed up +-6 +2.10 +0 +Frequency +4.10 +burnt +burned +-5 +2.10 +0 +-5 +4.10 +burnt +burned +2.10 -5 +0 +10-6 +snuck +sneaked +5.10 - 7 +0 +1800 +1850 +1900 1950 +Year +1990 +2000 +B +100% +OED +W3 +AHD4 - +Dictionary coverage +75% +50% - +25% +Oxford English... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017005.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..354a3083a0c820824607196d1611608622d36efa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017005.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +1e-4 +1.5 +Half-life (yrs) +15 +Frequency +1.0 +1900 Year +1950 +0.5 +0.0 +1875 +1900 +C +1e-6 +2.0 +1.5 +Mickey Mouse +Marilyn Monroe +Che Guevara +Neil Armstrong +Buzz Aldrin +Barbara Walters +— Jimmy Carter +Frequency +1.0 +0.5 +0.0 +1900 +1920 1930 +E +107 +Median frequency (log) +Doubling time (yrs) +1800 +1900 +10-8 +Year +Doubling time: 4 yrs +10-° +34 +1925 +Year +1950 +Year +1950 +1975 +1975 +Half life: 73 yrs +Half life (yrs) +100 +1800 +Year +70 +Age of the 1865 cohort +1883 +1910 +1950 +2000 +2000 +1900 +B +100% +Median frequency +(% of peak... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017006.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017006.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..577b9b07982b2e7df32f59ee77d1f724091a97bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017006.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +1e-7 +A 2.5 +2.0 +Frequency +1.5 +1.0 +0.5 +0.0 +1900 +C +1e-5 +4 +3 +Frequency +1 +0 +1950 +E +3 +Mean % of lifetime fame +1 +0 +1900 +— Artists +Politics +Literature +History +Philosophy/Religion +Nazis +1920 +B 2.5 +1e-5 +— Marc Chagall (English) +— Marc Chagall (German) +2.0 +Frequency +1.5 +1.0 +0.5 +1933 1945 +1975 +2000 +0.0 +1900 +Year +1e-6 +4 +D +1e-8 +8 +— Tiananmen +7 +3 +2 +Frequency +2 +1 +1976 +Year +1989 +0 +2000 +1900 +F +10% +Percentage of individuals +5% +Hermann Maas +0 +1940 +1960 +1980 +2000 +Year +— Троцкий (Trotsky) +— Зиновьев... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017007.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017007.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..714cc0e789f67d56a93861e7fba508904c97fe87 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017007.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +A 1.0 +1e-5 +— influenza +Spanish Flu +Asian Flu +Frequency +0.5 - +Rusan Fon +0.0 +1800 +C 1.5 +1e-5 +1850 +1900 +1950 +feminism (English) +- +féminisme (French) +Frequency +1.0 - +0.5 +0.0 +1800 +1850 +1900 +1950 +E +1e-5 +3 +Frequency +2 +— Galileo +— Darwin +— Freud +- Einstein +1 +Mon +1800 +1850 +1900 +1950 +G +1e-6 +4 +Frequency +1 +steak +sausage +— ice cream +hamburger +pizza +pasta +sushi +0 +1800 +1850 +1900 +1950 +B +1e-4 +2 +1 +2000 +D +1.0 +0 +1800 +1e-3 +1850 +0.5 - +2000 +0.0 +1800 +1850 +F +1e-5 +4 +- evolution +— the cell +-... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017008.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017008.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0f0bb72f0c4816f13c4ddede84a241edb46a6d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017008.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Science +AAAAS +www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/science.1199644/DC1 +Supporting Online Material for +Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books +Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden, Adrian Veres, Matthew K. Gray, The Google Books Team, Joseph P. Pickett, Dale Hoiberg, Dan Clancy, Peter +Norvig, Jon Orwant, Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, Erez Lieberman Aiden +To whom correspondence should be addressed. Published 16 December 2010 on Science Express +DOI:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017009.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017009.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..594c65dae8f0f76fb77f1441e54b851cf5bbe51f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017009.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Materials and Methods +"Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books", +Michel et al. Overview of Google Books Digitization.. +1.1. Construction of Historical N-grams Corpora +11.1. Accuracy of Date-of-Publication metadata +II.1B. Metadata based subdivision of the Google Books Collection +II.2A. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017010.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017010.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0aa32aa1c59a44071fca9f7331deb659cae99c5c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017010.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Estimation of Lexicon Size ... Analysis New and Obsolete words in the American Heritage Dictionary.... Classification of Verbs +III.6. The Pursuit of Fame +III.7A) Complete procedure. De Novo Identification of Censored and Suppressed Individuals +III.9C. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017011.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017011.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba613cb6383d342821c35440d6e6b935f140ef7a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017011.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Overview of Google Books Digitization +In 2004, Google began scanning books to make their contents searchable and discoverable online. To +date, Google has scanned over fifteen million books: over 11% of all the books ever published. Over two million of these scanned books were given directly to +Google by their publishers; the rest are borrowed from large libraries such as the University of Michigan +and the New York Public Library. Metadata +Over 100 sources of metadata information were used by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017012.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017012.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e84284abb35cea5a6e9e670a8084f3d4399ee0c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017012.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This final database contains bibliographic information for each of these +129 million editions (Ref. Digitization +We describe the way books are scanned and digitized. For publisher-provided books, Google removes +he spines and scans the pages with industrial sheet-fed scanners. For library-provided books, Google +Ises custom-built scanning stations designed to impose only as much wear on the book as would resul +from someone reading the book. As the pages are turned, stereo cameras overhead... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017013.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017013.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3657274cea3c4f172eef9b81a76fa5010df33fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017013.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Construction of Historical N-grams Corpora +As noted in the paper text, we did not analyze the entire set of 15 million books digitized by Google. Performed further filtering steps to select only a subset of books with highly accurate metadata. +2. Subdivided the books into 'base corpora' using such metadata fields as language, country of +publication, and subject. Additional filtering of books +II.1A. Accuracy of Date-of-Publication metadata +Accurate date-of-publication data is crucial component... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017014.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017014.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78a4d0b9849d5a479a9afe47b558b55f4dbe2a65 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017014.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The unfiltered corpus was +created using a sampling strategy similar to that of Eng-1M. Note that since the base corpora were generated (August 2009), many additional improvements have +been made to the metadata dates used in Google Book Search itself. As such, these numbers do not +reflect the accuracy of the Google Book Search online tool. OCR quality was +assessed using an algorithm developed by Popat et al. (Ref S3). This algorithm uses sophisticated statistics, a variant of the Partial by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017015.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017015.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa300f37694c6f04eb5342905a0c665335591fc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Table S1 lists the fraction removed at +this stage for our other non-English corpora. +11.1D. Year Restriction +In order to further ensure publication date accuracy and consistency of dates across all our corpora, we +implemented a publication year restriction and only retained books with publication years starting from +1550 and ending in 2008. The fraction of the corpus removed by all stages of the filtering is summarized in Table S1. Metadata based subdivision of the Google Books... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017016.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017016.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac35e623899fd820f24756134ad37fd985a472b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017016.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Construction of historical n-grams corpora +II.3A. Creation of a digital sequence of 1-grams and extraction of n-gram +counts +All input source texts were first converted into UTF-8 encoding before tokenization. Next, the text of each +book was tokenized into a sequence of 1-grams using Google's internal tokenization libraries (more +details on this approach can be found in Ref. Ordinarily, the tokenizer separates the character stream into words at the white space characters (In +[newline]; It [tab];... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017017.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017017.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d15ef2fd736192a4db647573631cc8c178847459 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017017.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +, (comma) +> (greater-than) +? (question-mark) +/ (forward-slash) +~ (tilde) +• (back-tick) +" (double quote) +(3) The following characters are not tokenized as separate words: +& (ampersand) + (underscore) +Examples of the resulting +words +include AT&T, R&D, and variable names such +HKEYLOCALMACHINE. +(4) . (period) is treated as a separate word, except when it is part of a number or price, such as 99.99 or +$999.95. Examples include $71 and $9.95 +(6) # (hash) is treated as a separate word, except when it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017018.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017018.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e39178b82e89406cd21d87153b6e328cab22af78 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017018.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Generation of historical n-grams corpora +To generate a particular historical n-grams corpus, a subset of book editions is chosen to serve as the +base corpus. The chosen editions are divided by publication year. For each publication year, total counts +for each n-gram are obtained by summing n-gram counts for each book edition that was published in that +year. In particular, three counts are generated: (1) the total number of times the n-gram appears; (2) the +number of pages on which the n-gram... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017019.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017019.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..284690e8ea0a0f7dc69c82cda09a078e47f412ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017019.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Eng-Modern-1M +This corpus was generated exactly as Eng-1M above, except that it contains no books from before 1800. Eng-US +This is derived from a base corpus containing all English language books which pass the filters described +in section 1 but having a quality filtering threshold of 60%, and having 'United States' as its country of +publication, reflected by the 2-letter country code "us", +Eng-UK +This is derived from a base corpus containing all English language books which pass the filters... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017020.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017020.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ea6eba6a289edcb3236416140f84329482d1920 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017020.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The computations required to generate these corpora were performed at Google using the MapReduce +framework for distributed computing (Ref S5). Note that the ability to study the frequency of words or phrases in English over time was our primary focus +in this study. As such, we went to significant lengths to ensure the quality of the general English corpora +and their date metadata (i.e., Eng-all, Eng-1M, and Eng-Modern-1M). In the case of Hebrew, the metadata for language is +an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017021.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017021.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ac2a2ae3f3b502626c0fee1d754198a1e57c49d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017021.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +This varies from corpus to corpus as described above. For English, we spent a great +deal of time examining the data by hand as an additional check on its reliability. The other corpora may +not be as reliable. +4) Quality of Metadata. Again, the English language corpus was checked very carefully and +systematically on multiple occasions, as described above and in the following sections. In addition to these four general issues, we note that earlier portions of the Hebrew corpus contain a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017022.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017022.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..239bec13afeea2d80f976bdffe96b6772623b683 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017022.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Note that for each n-gram in the corpus, we can provide three measures as a function of year of +publication: +1- the number of times it appeared +2- the number of pages where it appeared +3- the number of books where it appeared. For example, we give in Appendix measures for the frequency of the word 'evolution'. In the first three +columns, we give the number of times it appeared, the normalized number of times it appeared (relative +to #words that year), the normalized number of pages it appeared... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017023.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017023.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ddf6860cb5e6aca4f5d24fad05d89ee145451881 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017023.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Controls +To confirm the quality of our data in the English language, we sought positive controls in the form of +words that should exhibit very strong peaks around a date of interest. We used three categories of such +words: heads of state ('President Truman'), treaties (Treaty of Versailles'), and geographical name +change ('Byelorussia to 'Belarus'). The list of heads of states include all US presidents and British monarchs who gained power in the 19th or +20h centuries (we removed ambiguous... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017024.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017024.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f274d514936ca4505003393090b01e27788d821 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017024.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +(c) Oxford English Dictionary (Reference in main text) +From the website of the OED we can read that the "number of word forms defined and/or illustrated" is +615,100; and that we find 169,000 "italicized-bold phrases and combinations" +Therefore, we estimate an upper bound of the number of unique 1-grams defined by this dictionary as +615,100-169,000 which is approximately 446,000. Estimation of Lexicon Size +He ne ene does a comman me by alering to didi the large re cuese decimat +remains lower... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017025.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017025.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc32639200210e5d4b0cfb9ab13786c68d55919b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017025.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Dictionary Coverage +To determine the coverage of the OED and Merriam-Webster's Unabridge Dictionary (MW), we +performed the above analysis +(ranging trom 100-10 to 6-m ra. The annotator then attempted to find a +definition for the words in both the online edition of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary or in the +online version of the Oxford English Dictionary's 2° edition. Notably, the performance of the latter was +boosted appreciably by its inclusion of Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017026.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017026.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2093a865afcad105839caa9cb32bfcaa3bb0530b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017026.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +We therefore obtain a list of 106 verbs that we use in the study (marked by the denomination 'True' in the +column "Use in the study?") +III.5B. Verb frequencies +Next, for each verb, we computed the frequency of the regular past tense (built by suffixation of '-ed' at +the end of the verb), and the frequency of the irregular past tense (summing preterit and past participle). These trajectories are represented in Fig 3A and Fig S8. The regularity is a continuous variable that ranges between 0 and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017027.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017027.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..832584e8ff2dd872fee118d1cba36d411e4b3619 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017027.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The lag between a year and its peak is partly due to the length of +the authorship and publication process. The Inset in Figure 4A +was generated using 5 and 25. These values are noisier, but exhibit the same trend as in Figure 4A, +Inset (not shown). The Pursuit of Fame +We study the fame of individuals appearing in the biographical sections of Encyclopedia Britannica and +Wikipedia. Thus, from Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, we produce databases of +all individuals born between 1800-1980,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017028.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017028.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5deb5da002441065eb206f31c279f06e5ebc0ef6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017028.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +For every parsed article, we append metadata relating to the importance of the article within Wikipedia, +namely the size in words of the article and the number of page views which it obtains. The traffic statistics for Wikipedia articles +are obtained from http://stats.grok.se/. Figure S10a displays the number of records parsed from Wikipedia and retained for the final cohort +analysis. Table S7 displays specific examples from the extraction's output, including name, year of birth, +year of death,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017029.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017029.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..091226e5de6804e89dacfe5750e0d3af4dee67d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017029.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Using the online Wikipedia website, find all Wikipedia articles which are listed in the body +of the chosen Wikipedia lists. +d. Intersect the set of all articles belonging to the relevant Lists and Categories with the set +of people both 1800-1980. III.7.A.3 - Extraction of individuals appearing in Encyclopedia Britannica. We obtained, in a private communication, structured datasets from Encyclopedia +Britannica Inc. For the analysis of fame, we extract, from the dataset provided by Encyclopedia... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017030.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017030.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a411696e72dcf84f2522f1b6d4225056fa0dc7b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017030.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The common name of an individual sometimes significantly differs from the complete, formal name +present in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Henry David Thoreau is most commonly referred to by his full name, not "Henry Thoreau" nor +"David Thoreau" +, whereas Oliver Joseph Lodge is mentioned by his first and last name "Oliver Lodge", +not his full name "Oliver Joseph Lodge" +Given a full name with complex structure potentially containing details such as titles, initials, nobility rights +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017031.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017031.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5e793cbced8cd7a5e56d18bcc45f4b1f0419b65 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017031.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Add to the set of query names all pairs of "first names + last names" produced by +combining the sets of first and last names. +i. This procedure is carried for every raw name variant. III.7.A.6 - Find the word match frequencies of all names. Given the set of names which may refer to an individual, we wish to find the time resolved words +frequencies of these names. This enables us, in a later step, +to identify which name is the relevant. +6) Append the fame signal for each query name of each... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017032.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017032.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0647d58a9b1c1d043a7ed6f55723e788256ae21 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017032.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Conflict resolution involves the decision of whether a query name, associated with +multiple records, can unambiguously refer to a single one of them. +b. Conflict resolution for Wikipedia records is carried out on the basis the main +article word count and traffic statistics. Find the cumulative word count of words written in the articles in conflict. +ii. For every record in the conflict, find the fraction of words and views resulting from +this record by dividing by the cumulative counts. +iv.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017033.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017033.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fc7aecc2c1fb491669cd2ef565967cb042aa68d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017033.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +III.7.A.10 - Compare the fame of multiple individuals. We now compare the fame of multiple +individuals on the basis of the properties of their fame signal. For this analysis, we group people +according to specific characteristics, which in the context of this work are the years of birth and the +respective occupations. +10) Assemble cohorts on the basis of a shared record property. +a. Cohorts of fame +For each year, we defined a cohort of the top 50 most famous individuals born that year. We can... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017034.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017034.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78278dead9adcdf5548451c073fea6e6f8583c68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017034.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Like her fictional protagonist Victor Frankenstein, Mary +Shelley is survived by her creation: Frankenstein took on a life of his own within our collective imagination +(Figure S15). History of Technology +A list of inventions from 1800-1960 was taken from Wikipedia (Ref S10). Where multiple listings of a particular invention appear, the year +retained in the list is the one reported in the main Wikipedia article for the invention. (e.g. "Microwave +Oven" is listed in 1945 and 1946; the main article... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017035.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017035.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73470d95d433367a7fa590d070987f844b24b7b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017035.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The cohorts we generated were based on four major sources, and their content is given in Appendix. +1) The Hermann lists +The lists of the infamous librarian Wolfgang Hermann were originally published in a librarianship journal +and later in Boersenblatt, a publishing industry magazine in Germany. A +digital version is available on the German-language version of Wikipedia (Ref S12). Consequently, we began with the list available on Wikipedia and hired a +manual annotator to compare this list with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017036.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017036.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a2145099fb6daa2a12aa2b6ac86f058f4b24a2f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017036.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Because Adolf Hitler is only one of many names, the list as a whole nevertheless +exhibits strong evidence of suppression, especially because the measure we retained (median usage) is +robust to such outliers. +3) Degenerate artists +The list of degenerate artists was taken directly from the catalog of a recent exhibition at the Los Angeles +County Museum of Art which endeavored to reconstruct the original 'Degenerate Art' exhibition (Ref S15). +4) People with recorded ties to Nazis +The list of Nazi... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017037.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017037.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16d132c6ce7194271ad1b5eeaa072c842aa75032 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017037.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Epidemics +Disease epidemics have a significant impact on the surrounding culture (Fig. It was recently +shown that during seasonal influenza epidemics, users of Google are more likely to engage in influenza- +related searches, and that this signature of influenza epidemics corresponds well with the results of CDC +surveillance (Ref S16). In the case +of influenza, peaks in cultural interest showed excellent correspondence with known historical epidemics +(the Russian Flu of 1890, leading to 1M... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017038.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017038.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1438e77d6a42de99f36933b614cb20f1a32eb63f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017038.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Supplementary References +"Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books", +Michel et al. Taycher, "Books of the world +stand +up and +be counted", +2010. http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be- +counted.html +S2. Ray Smith, Daria Antonova, and Dar-Shyang Lee, Adapting the Tesseract +open source OCR engine for multilingual OCR, Proceedings of the +International Conference on Multilingual OCR, Barcelona Spain,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017039.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017039.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e96e9618897b866d9e92e5649a83e32e05e3575f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017039.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Gerhard Sauder: Die Bücherverbrennung. 10. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, +Wien 1985. Liste Des Schädlichen Und Unerwünschten Schrifttums: Stand Vom 31. Degenerate Art: the Fate of the +Avant-garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum +of Art, 1991. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017040.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017040.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d4401d159a19af7d3d0cf9d831bf885b5c3912bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017040.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Supplementary Figures +"Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books", +Michel et al. Figure S1 +325 +IR +330 +PROJECTOR +305 +315 +310 +320 +IR STEREO +CAMERA +320 +301 +BOOK +PLATFORM +302 +Fig. Schematic of stereo scanning for Google Books. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017041.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017041.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96118f6ddb206b7f833f301b8292a136838dccad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017041.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Figure S2 +The Canadian +Mediral Associatim Journal +PENAL ONE SE MANITIAR MINCAL NEWS. The Canadian +Mediral Assoriation Umunal +With which is incorporated the MONTREAL MEDICAL +JOURNAL and the MARITIME MEDICAL NEWS +BEATED BY +ANDREW MACHHAII. +Мотави +EDITRD BY +ANDREW MACPHAIL +MONTREAL +OLD SERIES VOL. XL +NEW SERIES VOL. 1 +OLD SEatEr Vor. XE +New SERIEs VoLe 1 +TORONTO +MORANG & CO. LIMITED +1911 +TORONTO +MORANG & CO, LIMITED +1uTt +Fig. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017042.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017042.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b6634d31125be7e230e1dadb4d12daf4bc68176 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017042.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Figure S3 +Digitized +Books +Date of +Publication +Correction +OCR Quality +Filtering +1B +Language +Detection, +Correction, +and Filtering +1C, 2A +Selection +and Filtering +by Metadata +Fields 1D, +2B,C +Historical +N-gram +Corpus +Counting +and +Aggregation +by Date 3B +N-gram +Construction +ЗА +Tokenization +ЗА +Cleaned +Source +Corpus +Fig. Outline of n-gram corpus construction. The numbering corresponds to sections of the text. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017043.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017043.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..217d81ef52c3c69bd76cc121b2dc58cb996ea2ab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017043.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Figure S4 +0.08 +0.06 +Fraction of Books +0.04 +0.02 +OCR Quality Score +Fig. Fraction of English Books with a given OCR quality. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017044.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017044.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..821ecf3e916289a4e318da51ba3753ab9c0cd126 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017044.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Figure S5 +A +Mean % of overall frequency +B +Mean % of overall frequency +2.5 +2.0 +1.5 +1.0 +0.5 +0.0 +-200 +Treaties (n=124) +-150 +-100 +50 +100 +Year (relative to treaty signature) +150 +200 +3.5 +3.0 +2.5 +2.0 +1.5 +1.0 +0.5 +0.0 +-150 +Heads of state +(n=43) +-100 +-50 +50 +100 +Year (relative to accession to power) +150 +200 +Mean % of overall frequency +New name (n=28) +Old name (n=28) +3.5 +3.0 +2.5 +2.0 +1.5 +1.0 +0.5 +0.0 +-200 +-150 +-100 +-50 +Year (relative to country name change) +50 +Fig. Known events exhibit sharp peaks at date of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017045.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017045.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..430dd3a8a52d288162b61a1ee5914c9299993331 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017045.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Figure S6 +100% +AHD words with frequency < X +80% +60% +40% +20% +0% +-9 +-8 +-7 +-6 +-5 +Word frequency (log) +-4 +-3 +-2 +Fig. Frequency distribution of words in the dictionary. We compute the frequency in our year 2000 +lexicon for all 116,156 words (1-grams) in the AHD (year 2000). We represent the percentage of these +words whose frequency is smaller than the value on the x-axis (logarithmic scale, base 10). 90% of all +words in AHD are more frequent than 1 part per billion (10°), but only 75% are more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017046.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017046.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dde2606fbb0454ac66b78c4b8556e3d2b1e78e93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017046.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Figure S7 +600K +Number of words +400K +200K- +OED +W3 +AHD +1900 +1950 +Decade +2000 +Fig. Lexical trends excluding proper nouns. We compute the number of words that are 1-grams in +the categories "p" +', "B" and "R". The same upward trend starting in 1950 is observed. The size of the +lexicon in the year 2000 is still larger than the OED or W3. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017047.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017047.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..650de396abc4104de7cd473ae12d5b15747dd2c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017047.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Figure S8 +10'31 +10-% +107 +10 % +10-3 +10 % +10% +10 ° +equency +10 +5.10' +o l +4.10 € | +2.10 € +found +finded +dwelt +dwelled +throve/thriven +thrived +spilt +spilled +4.10 6- +2.10 € +spilt +spilled +1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 +Year +Fig. Example of grammatical change. Irregular verbs are used as a model of grammatical evolution. For each verb, we plot the usage frequency of its irregular form in red (for instance, 'found'), and the +usage frequency of its regular past-tense form in blue (for instance, 'finded').... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017048.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017048.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..88b37888eeb24d55366abe7ec5738d7904aaa4fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017048.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Figure S9 +1.2 10-5 +1.0 +- Fort Sumter +Lusitania +— Pearl Harbor +Frequency +0.8 +0.6 +0.4 +0.2 +0.0 +1800 +1850 +1900 +Year +1950 +2000 +Fig. Events of importance provoke a peak of discussion shortly after they happened, but +interest in them quickly decreases. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017049.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017049.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8cfc1fb01162b1682fcf5233efb617fdb0602f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017049.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Figure S10 +People +8000 +6000 +4000 +2000 +Total parsed from Wikipedia +Relevant for final analysis +1800 +1850 +1900 +Years +1950 +1980 +300 +B +Total parsed from EB +Relevant for final analysis +People +200 +100 +1800 +1850 +1900 +Years +1950 +1980 +Fig. Biographical Records. The number of records parsed from the two encyclopedic sources (blue +curve), and used in our analyses (green curve). See steps 7.A.1 to 7.A. 10 above. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017050.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017050.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31f69870c9f75548d7a684f69598470362a6f36e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017050.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Figure $11 +A +1e-7 +1.2 +Frequency +0.8 +0.4 +0.1800 +1850 +1900 +Years +1e-6 +1.0 +Frequency +Oliver Joseph Lodge +Oliver Lodge +Joseph Lodge +0.5 +0.0 +1800 +1850 +1900 +Years +Adrien de Mun +Albert de Mun +Marie de Mun +1950 +2000 +1950 +2000 +B +Frequency +Frequency +1e-7 +4.5 +3.0 +1.5 +0.0 +1800 +1.5 +1e-7 +1.0 +0.5 +0.0 +1800 +1850 +1850 +Henry David Thoreau +Henry Thoreau +David Thoreau +1900 +Years +1950 +2000 +Mary Tyler Moore +Tyler Moore +Mary Moore N +MMM +1900 +Years +1950 +2000 +Fig. Strongest and optimal query name is Albert de Mun, (B)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017051.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017051.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14f104351a1dfeb2a5a3297281b183b2a87cf7e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017051.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Figure S12 +A +105 +10€ +107 +10€ +109 La +10'" +D +101 +10€ +X +107 +10° +10-9 +10-11 +Abraham Lincoln +Edgar Allan Poe +Charles Darwin +1809 top 50 +John Brown +William Johnson +James Smith +Rejected +10-10 +10° +10€ +10' +Average Fame at Birth +10€ +Robert Kennedy +Margaret Thatcher +Paul Newman +1925 top 50 +Santa Cruz +Joseph Smith +George Moore +Rejected +10-10 +10° +10° +10' +Average Fame at Birth +B +6 1e-6 +Frequency +1809 +7.5 +Frequenty +0.0 +1809 +E +1e-6 +1.8 +0.1800 +F +1e-6 +Frequency +4 +2 +10€ +10'$ +1800 +John Brown +William Johnson +James... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017052.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017052.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..520659d8f7b7924bd18a9429815139884d591360 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017052.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Figure S13 +Age of +initial celebrity Doubling time +15 +10 +40 +20 +1800 +Half +150 +100 +50 +Age of +80 +40 +1850 +1900 +Year of birth +1950 +1800 +1850 +1900 +Year of birth +1950 +Fig. Values of the four parameters of fame as a function of time. 'Age of peak celebrity' (75 years +old) has been fairly consistent. Celebrities are noticed earlier, and become more famous than ever +before: 'Age of initial celebrity' has dropped from 43 to 29 years, and 'Doubling time' has dropped from +8.1 to 3.3 years. But they are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017053.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017053.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91740d598d17e41c726e229366240786682e1a26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017053.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Figure $14 +A +Frequency (log) +Cordell Hull +Marcel Proust +Umville wrigin +Emest Rutherford +Georges Rouault +both an of poopin +10°° +1871 +1900 +1920 +1940 +Year +1960 +1980 +2000 +Median frequency (log) +10® +10° +D +Doubling time +15 +10 +Age of +initial celebrity +40 +20 +half life: 85yrs +age of peak celebrity: 77yrs +doubling time: 5yrs +age of initial celebrity: 38yrs +38 +77 +Age of the 1865 cohort +1950 +Age of +peak celebrity +Half life +150 +100 +1850 +1900 +Year of birth +1850 +1900 +Year of birth +1950 +Fig. Fundamental... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017054.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017054.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e99cbcefd928d8870b0cefb429a8e57f9d6d57d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017054.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Figure S15 +Frequency +2.0 10-6 +— Mary Shelley +— Frankenstein +1.5 - +1.0 +0.5 - +0.0 +1800 +1850 +1900 +Year +1950 +2000 +Fig. Many routes to Immortality. People leave more behind them than their name: 'Mary Shelley' +(blue) created the monstrously famous 'Frankenstein' (green). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017055.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017055.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..776cbe9c871dc7353147c19d45b5ec815d83cac4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017055.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Figure S16 +100% +Median frequency +(% of peak value) +75% +50% +25% +— invented in 1800-1850 +— invented in 1850-1900 +0% +50 +Years since invention +100 +Number of inventions +N W +1800-1840 +-23) +1 1840-1880 +(n=33) +1 1880-1920 +14 +20 +15 +1400 1X90 140014h0 20001 +160012h0 1900199070000 +Year of peak +12001xh01900. 1920 20000 +Fig. Controls. (A) We observe over the same timespan (100 years) two cohorts invented at different +times. Again, the more recent cohort reaches 25% of its peak faster. (B) We verify that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017056.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017056.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1bc0a0d2e58e3e9386a9c2a7ecc8bcf7d21d84a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017056.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Figure $17 +1938 Blacklist (1117) +Art (Hermann list) (7) +Lit. History (8) +Mean % of lifetime fame +1900 +1920 +1940 +1960 +1980 +2000 +Year +Fig. Suppression of authors on the Art and Literary History blacklists in German. We plot the +median trajectory (as in the main text) of authors in the Herman lists for Art (green) and Literary History +(red), and for authors found in the 1938 blacklist (blue). The Nazi regime (1933-1945) is highlighted, and +corresponds to strong drops in the trajectories of these... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017057.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017057.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e2ebd6d91b01b6b7d00b117e1f2fb096d994f10 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017057.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Figure $18 +1e-5 +8 +fever +cancer +asthma +Tuberculos s +diabetes +obesity +heart attack +Frequency +1800 +C 2.0 +1e-5 +1.5 - +Frequency +1.0 +0.5 +0.1800 +1850 +1900 +Year +1950 +— cholera +1e-5 +4.0 +3.5 +3.0 +2.5 +Frequency +2.0 +1.5 - +1.0 +2000 +0.5 - +0.0 - +1950 +D +1e-6 +1.0 - +Frequency +0.5 - +2000 +0.0 L +1800 +AIDS +HIV +1960 +1970 +1980 +1990 +Year +infantile paralysis +Franklin Delano Roosevelt +polio vaccine +2000 +1850 +1900 +1950 +1850 +1900 +1950 +2000 +Year +Year +Fig. Tracking historical epidemics using their influence on the surrounding... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017058.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017058.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a6c0e5d08355661075a9f2ee2198d30a794cd5fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017058.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Figure S19 +A4.2 +1e-5 +1.0 +B +1e-6 +6 +C +1e-5 +Frequency +civil rights +women's rights +children's rights +animal rights +- +genocide +the Holocaust +ethnic cleansing +capitalism +communism +Terrorism +0.6 - +0.4 - +0.2 un +0.0 +1800 +1850 +D +41e-7 +1900 +1950 +2000 +E +1800 +1e-5 +1850 +1900 +1950 +2000 +1800 +F2.0 +1e-5 +1850 +1900 +1950 +2000 +sea levels +atmospheric CO2 +global temperature +1.0 +Frequency +quinine +aspirin +penicillin +antibiotics +1.5 +germs +hygiene +sterilization +0.5 +1.0 +1800 +1e-5 +1850 +1900 +1950 +2000 +0.0 +1800 +H +1e-6 +1.5... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017059.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017059.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61dc700c3bd402efec9dd5d02ecca8eb9796484e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017059.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-017059 + +and 'Burkina Faso' (green). (1) 'radio' in the US (blue) and in the UK (red) have distinct trajectories. (J) +'football' (blue), 'golf' (green), 'baseball' (red), 'basketball' (cyan) and 'hockey' (purple) (K) Sportsmen: In +the 1980s, the fame of 'Michael Jordan' (cyan) leaped over other that of other great athletes, including +'Jesse Owens' (green), 'Joe Namath' (red), 'Mike Tyson' (purple), and 'Wayne Gretsky' (yellow). Presently, only 'Babe Ruth' (blue) can compete. One... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017060.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017060.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c0f18317194ff948601ab2680e2b67e1282d2ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017060.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Abbott +Zein Abdalla +Mustafa Abdel-Wadood +Abdul Rahman Mohd +Razali +Khalid Abdulla-Janahi +Hafsat Abiola-Costello +Magid Abraham +Reuben Abraham +Phillip Abrary +Issa Abdul Salam Abu +Issa +Mikhail A. Abyzov +Aclan Acar +Paul Achleitner +Josef Ackermann +Mohamed Adam +Chief Investment Officer +Chief Executive Officer +Managing Director and Chief +Executive Officer, Abraaj Investment +Management +Chairman +Cornell University +PepsiCo Europe +Abraaj Capital Limite +Honorary Chairman +Founder and Chief Executive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017061.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017061.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a2c30e9628a6e9aa90796346aab154433612d10 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017061.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Prince Turki Al +Faisal Al Saud +Matti Alahuhta +Anass Alami +José Maria Alapont +Pierre Alary +Tom Albanese +Jim Albaugh +Liz Alderman +Philip Aldrick +Felipe Aldunate +Hans van Alebeek +Vagit Yu Alekperov +Nerio Alessandri +Helen Alexander +Mohammed F. Alkholi +Yvan Allaire +Graham Allan +Natalia Allen +Sharon Allen +Joaquín Almunia +Howard Alper +Edmond Alphandéry +Mohammed Alshaya +José María Álvarez Pallete +Aly Aziz +Yahya Alyahya +Yukiya Amano +Luis Conceicao do Amaral +Mukesh D. Anderson +László Andor +Prime Minister... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017062.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017062.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b95f490817e210c281bb67c61bf38d16b1a65d1d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017062.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Andresen Jr +Jason Andrew +Kirill Androsov +Christian Angermayer +Husodo Angkosubroto +Kofi Annan +Alan Annex +Paola Antonelli +Platon Antoniou +Leo Apotheker +Frank Appel +David Appia +Jun Arai +Marta Arango Nimnicht +Louise Arbour +Dan Ariely +Anita Arjundas +David Arkless +Peter Armstrong +Tim Armstrong +Nikesh Arora +W. Brian Arthur +Ayman Asfari +Tewodros Ashenafi +Samir Assaf +Peter Athanas +Abdul Rahman Attar +Khalid bin Mohammed Al +Attiyah +Lera Auerbach +Helmut Aurenz +Bruce E. Angermayer, Brumm & +Lange Merchant... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017063.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017063.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..240ff363a3f715f8ea04cb7a45398eafbc9959a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017063.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Baker Jr +Gerard Baker +Peter Bakker +Jon Fredrik Baksaas +Jorge E. Ballesteros +Zavala +Jim Balsillie +Rolando Balsinde +Beat Balzli +Ban Ki-moon +Stéphane Bancel +Oriana Bandiera +Chandrajit Banerjee +Shumeet Banerji +Manvinder S. Banks +Almir Guilherme Barbassa +Lionel Barber +Roger Barnett +Nicholas Barr +Nicolas Barré +Maria Bartiromo +Dominic Barton +Pius Baschera +Lluis Bassets +Sonja Bata +Olivier Baube +Raymond J. Beck +Carol Becker +Charlie Beckett +Tanya Beckett +Bernd Beetz +Brian Behlendorf +Nariman... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017064.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017064.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52822a9ab97c38cb2d91ae75a87f529cd12f46f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017064.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Bhartia +Shobhana Bhartia +Shyam Sunder Bhartia +Pramod Bhasin +Karan Bhatia +Om Prakash Bhatt +Carl Bildt +Jeroo Billimoria +Nicholas E. Birl +eonhard Birnbau +Fatih Birol +Silas Birtwistle +Matthew Bishop +Rune Bjerke +Kurt Bjorklund +Jerry Black +Brent Blair +Tony Blair +Franck Blais +Mario I. Blejer +Martin Blessing +Richard Blewitt +Henry Blodget +Vice-President, Economics, Prices +GDF SUEZ +France +and Markets +Head of Business Development +Syngenta International AG +Switzerland +Ambassador of Germany... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017065.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017065.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e1396c5b5efece47368027d63a29cc4cbaacdec2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017065.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Bloom +Kathy Bloomgarden +Sally Blount +Rebecca Blumenstein +Adam Bly +Kurt Bock +Michael C. Bodson +Alan Boeckmann +Deborah Boedicker +Yurii Boiko +Irina Gueorguieva Bokova +Marc Bolland +Roberto Bolle +Lee C. Brindley +Scott Brison +Clarence James Gamble Professor of +Harvard School of Public +Economics and Demography +Health +Chief Executive Officer +Ruder Finn Inc. Dean +Kellogg School of +Management +Deputy Managing Editor +The Wall Street Journal +Founder and Chief Executive Officer +Seed +Member of the Board,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017066.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017066.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01abfd7aa43bb2687ab65af977b797d822d25b22 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017066.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Hannes Britschgi +Romero Britto +Jeffrey D. Brooke +David Brooks +Rebekah Brooks +Stuart Brooks +Richard D. Frank Brown +Mike Brown +Tim Brown +Tina Brown +Neil Alexander Bruce +Rainer Brüderle +Peter C. Brutto +Eddy Bruyninckx +Charles Brymer +Thomas Buberl +Rolf Buch +Mick Buckley +Jerry Buhlmann +Paul Bulcke +Marcos Bulgheroni +Prasert Bunsumpun +Hubert Burda +Richard Burdett +Jorge Calvet +David Cameron +James Cameron +Philip Campbell +Rachel Campbell +Lázaro Campos +Publisher +Artist and President +Founding... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017067.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017067.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ddd24ac13bfba735c3d5d03589721c4f4c3e2c83 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017067.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Carter +Jaime Caruana +John Casey +Pete Cashmore +Alessandro Castellano +Giovanni Castellucci +Juan Luis Cebrian Echarri +Dominique Cerutti +Laura Cha +Sanjeev Chadha +John T. 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Ergen +Paula Escobar +Patricia Espinosa +Cantellano +Shelly Esque +Dan Esty +John Evans +Stuart Evans +Badimir Evtushenkov +Anna Ewing +Jack Ewing +Augie K. Al Falih +Annika Falkengren +Fan Shenggen +Werner Faymann +Member of the Managing Board and +Head, Corporate Human Resources +President of the Board +Chief Executive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017074.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017074.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c7dc37acc4293e7e3ef107825d9824bf35d7a6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017074.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Fear +Pavel Federov +Yury Fedotov +Daniel Feffer +Franz Fehrenbach +Stephen Feinberg +Peter Fellman +Feng Jun +Niall Ferguson +José Antonio Fernández +Carbajal +Leonel Fernández +Bruno Ferrari +John F. 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Johnson +Simon Johnson +Tom Johnstone +Anthony Jones +David Jones +Hannah Jones +Agnes Jongerius +Conni Jonsson +Vyomesh Joshi +Tarun Jotwani +Luciano E. 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Kogogin +Annie Koh +Vice-Chairman, Deutsche Bank +Group +Managing Director and Chief +Executive Officer +James E. Robison Professor of +Business Administration +Director-General +Associate Professor of Finance and +Dean, Office of Executive and +Professional Education +Manuel Kohnstamm +Managing Director, Public Policy and +Yorihiko Kojima +Chairman of the Board +Ali Kolaghassi +Eivind... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017086.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017086.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d5ce15eb4931199f1bef8fd9832ac67c0d92186 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017086.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Kuzyaev +Kwak Seung-Jun +Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad +Rachel Kyte +Carlos Labarthe Costas +Huguette Labelle +María Claudia Lacouture +Francine Lacqua +Peter Lacy +Christine Lagarde +Samir Lahoud +Sam Laidlaw +Charles D. Langes- +Swarovski +Guy Louis Lansdown +Felipe Larrain Bascuñán +Thomas Larsen +Keith Larson +Juan Mario Laserna +Adam Lashinsky +Alex Laskey +Vanessa Lau +Paul A. Lawrence +Matthew Layton +Hani Lazkani +Loïc Le Meur +Susan Lea +Sir Terry Leahy +Jim Leape +Peter Leav +dith Ledere +essie Lee +Ellana Lee +Lee... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017087.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017087.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7308525854435468593c91facbd608c30ec4a632 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017087.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Lee Kai-Fu +Lee Yong-Shin +Jim Leech +Fred van Leeuwen +Manfredi Lefebvre d'Ovidio +di Balsorano +Gottfried Leibbrandt +Jon Leibowitz +Achankeng Leke +Frédéric Lemoine +François J. Levin +Alison Levine +Zohar Levkovitz +Maurice Lévy +Freda Lewis-Hall +Ursula von der Leyen +Li Daokui +Ping Li +Jason Li Yat-Sen +Bernard Liautaud +Zachary Lieberman +Michael Liebreich +Michel M. Liès +Ernst Ligteringen +Andrew Likierman +Lin Yu +Julio Linares +Donald Lindsay +Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Innovation Works +Chief Risk... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017088.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017088.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cf3811c75cd9febdddfdcb9673e7cf69eb69141 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017088.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +TOTAL WORD COUNT 191,694 +TOTAL PAGES 401 +TABLE OF CONTENTS +Preface: Ideology as Biography—A life of continuous change +Wc 4391 +Pages 9 +Part I: From Brooklyn to Cambridge (with stops in New Haven and Washington) +Chapter 1: Born and religiously educated in Brooklyn +We 15,669 +Pages 27 +Chapter 2: My Secular Education-Brooklyn and Yale +Wc 3811 +Pages 6 +Chapter 3: My Clerkships: Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg +Wc 13969 +Pages 24 +Chapter 4: Beginning my life as an academic-and its... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017089.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017089.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f28c783762c1ece35a4882f400a8ae167540689 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017089.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 9: The Right to Falsify History: Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom +Wc 5031 +Pages 10 +Chapter 10: Speech that Conflicts with Reputational and Privacy Rights +Wc 4685 +Pages 9 +Part III: Criminal Justice: From Sherlock Holmes to Barry Scheck and CSI +Chapter 11: "Death is different"': Challenging Capital Punishment +Wc 3157 +Pages 6 +Chapter 12: The death penalty for those who don't kill: Ricky and Raymond Tison +Wc 6392 +Pages 20 +Chapter 13: Using Science, Law, Logic and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017090.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017090.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e46fa6d38596afa49ba468257ecad16bd450da1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017090.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Conclusion-Closing Argument: +Looking back at my 50 year career and forward to the laws next 50 years. Wc 7047 +Pages 13 +APPENDIX-VIGNETTES +Wc 8817 +Pages 42 (each on separate page) +3 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017090 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017091.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017091.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..439e7383313c6cb1c5c99e8f0962b745a60eae0e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017091.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Alan Dershowitz Takes The Stand: An Autobiography +Or +Taking the Stand—an Autobiography by Alan Dershowitz +Preface: Ideology as Biography—A life of continuous change +My legal practice has been described as "the most fascinating on the planet." Though perhaps +hyperbolic, the fact is that during my long career as a lawyer, I have: +• represented and counseled presidents, prime ministers, United Nations high officials, +judges, senators, actors, musicians, athletes as well as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017092.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017092.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af4a9ec4cb839110d7b6d0ce233bb7b08ac999e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017092.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The law has changed considerably over the past half century. This book presents an account of these changes and of my participation +in the cases that precipitated them. It is also an account of one man's intellectual and ideological +development during a dramatic century of world, American, and Jewish history, enriched with +anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories from my life and the lives of those I have encountered. But if one elects to bear witness about his own life, then +he or she must tell... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017093.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017093.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5e4cd31e9e436f560d83d85a8e2e2d80ce3863a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017093.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +When I complained to my son, who had co-produced the film, that I don't throw phones when I +lose cases even capital cases—my son responded: "Dad, you've got to get it through your head +that the person on the screen isn't you; it's your character—'the Dersh Character."" He +continued to assure me, in his best professional manner, that characters have to "establish +themselves" early in the film, and that this "establishing scene" was intended to convey my energy +and my passion... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017094.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017094.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed5f29b9db68ddbd145767e916e51d5d6575f22f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017094.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +In looking back on my life, I am inevitably +peering through the prism of the powerful ideology that has provided a compass for my actions. Where we stand is the result of where we sat, who we sat next to, what +we observed, what happened to us, and how we reacted to our experiences. Its causes are multifaceted and rarely subject to quantification. The +philosopher, Descartes, who famously said, "I think therefore I am" got it backwards. The ability to think is inborn— a biological and +genetic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017095.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017095.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6cf0fddc67d1dad5b83123211e04f0614cdbea2a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017095.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +may be why Jews of my generation are so influenced in their attitudes and ideology by the +Holocaust. There but for the grace of God, and the forethought of our grandparents, go we. (In +1999, I wrote a novel Just Revenge, which reflected my dear feelings about the unavenged +murders of so many of my relatives.) +Once a person is born in a certain place, at a certain time, attitudes and ideology are shaped (in +part, because luck always intrudes®) directly by family, religion,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017096.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017096.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04035c590a6c4d9a967efb1737bb8320a4430788 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017096.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Their exposure to culture was limited to things Jewish- cantorial recitations, Yiddish +theater, lectures by Orthodox rabbis, Jewish museums, Catskill Mountain and Miami Beach +entertainment. My adult life has been dramatically different. Status was important, especially for our parents and grandparents, as was +"yichus" (the Yiddish term for ancestry). If Jackie Robinson could play second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, we could do +anything. When we met in Palo Alto, California, we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017097.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017097.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5687caf22cae03fa1b9010a45d64df470039a2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017097.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As a law clerk, during one of the most dramatic periods of our judicial history, I worked on +important civil rights and liberties cases, heard the "I have a dream" speech of Martin Luther +King, was close to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and partook of events following the assassination of +John F. As a young lawyer, I played a role in the Pentagon Papers case, the forced resignation of Richard +Nixon, and the anti-war prosecutions of Dr. Spock, the Chicago Seven, the Weather +Underground and Patricia... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017098.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017098.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9c4079f21f7666fb5cb5d5904f25bc7c436ceb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017098.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Among the people I have advised are President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayu +and President Moshe Katsav of Israel, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Senator Alan +Cranston, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, +Woody Harrelson, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Natalie Portman, Broadway producer David +Merrick, New England Patriot Head Coach Bill Belichick, the actress Isabella Rossellini, the +international arms... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017099.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017099.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cc4584cb1a93a5008a860312893b4c4ac09eeff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017099.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +have been practicing it. If the past is the best predictor of the future, then I also have some ideas +about what changes we might anticipate in the law over the next half century. Oliver Wendell Holmes urged his young colleagues to "live the passion of your times." I have +followed that advice and now wish to share this passion with my readers. +12 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017099 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017100.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017100.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b9999c102fab97ef6c4e967ec3b6683491d2dcd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017100.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Part I: From Brooklyn to Cambridge (with stops in New Haven and Washington) +Chapter 1: Born and religiously educated in Brooklyn +The doctor told my pregnant and anxious mother that she would give birth "first in September." +So when I was born on September 1, 1938, my mother thought the doctor was a genius. My maternal grandfather, an +immigrant from Poland, wanted me to be born at home, because in Poland, there were rumors +that Jewish babies were switched with Polish babies.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017101.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017101.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c184e22fe8ad9f110f5742609879a73a0b85ad2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017101.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +My +grandfathers were both amateur "chazanim," cantors, who sang the Jewish liturgy in small +synagogues, called "shteebles." They were slightly competitive, but were both involved in the +founding of several Jewish institutions in Williamsberg, including a free loan society, a burial +society, the Young Israel synagogue and the Torah V'Daas Yeshiva. My grandmothers, +Ida and Blima, took care of their many children. My mother nearly died during the influenza outbreak of 1917, +but according to family... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017102.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017102.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6dff79e7d1f8bbc7ccfe82d77c079a131fa862b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017102.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When I was four years old, German spies landed on Long Island in +a submarine. And so over the next few summers, which my family spent in a rented room near Rockaway +Beach, a local police officer paid us kids a penny a day to be on the lookout for "Kraud Subs." +We took our job very seriously. I recall my grandmother Ringel (my mother's mother), who was recovering from a heart attack, +taking me to a rehabilitation home in Lakewood, New Jersey, where several wounded or shell- +shocked soldiers were... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017103.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017103.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..add928cf9c71180cbb0a42835c3164d17356ca0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017103.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +We +named it "The Palmach" after the Israeli strike force that was helping to win the war. We +memorized the Palmach Anthem "Rishonin, Tamid Anachnu Tamid, Anu, Anu Hapalmach." ( +"We are always the first, we are the Palmach"). Recently, I spoke to a Jewish group in Los +Angeles and among the guests were Vidal Sassoon (the style master) and David Steinberg (the +comedian). Following its +bold declaration that after 2,000 years of exile, there arose a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, +(supported by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017104.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017104.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c1657d60a7e2fc089f000dc7fbf240b77c0c1c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017104.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Since we had no car, we rented the garage +to another cousin who used it to store the toys he sold wholesale. We passed down clothing from generation to generation and ate a lot of "leftovers". +(Remember the comedian who said "we always ate leftovers-nobody has ever found the +"original" meal.) My mother has always said we were "comfortable." (The same comedian told +about the Jewish man who was hit by a car, and was laying on the ground; when the ambulance +attendant asked him "are you... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017105.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017105.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ab43ae3ca8ec45788712b13e378f6423a1dd697 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017105.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +seeing my parents read anything but newspapers (The New York Post), until I went to college. There were no book stores in Boro Park, expect for a small used book shop that smelled old and +seemed to specialize in subversive books. The owner, who smelled like his mildewed books, +looked like Trotsky, who he was said to admire. My parents, especially my mother, were terrified about "lists" and "records." This was, after all, +the age of "blacklists," "redchanels," and other colored... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017106.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017106.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed864ff95a7ad69ab0abad52a79f0acd9c0a154b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017106.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The first real books I actually read were several to which I had been introduced by the Classic +Comics: The Count of Monte Christo, The Red Badge of Courage; Moby Dick; and a +Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. My Uncle Hedgie (a nickname for Harry) would berate me for sitting around the house +reading, when I could be working or playing sports. "Get off +your ass." But I would stay in my tiny room, with my Webcote tape recorder playing classical +music I had recorded off... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017107.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017107.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b8783da80b0c6620e945d4a3920ba5717ccc37f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017107.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +To this day I have no idea how I fell in love with literature, music and art. I was never exposed to classical music or art, even in +school where the music teacher taught us "exotic" songs like "finicula, funicula," American songs +by Stephen Foster, and an assortment of religious and Zionist Hebrew songs. (Zum Gali, Gali, +Gali; Tsena, Tsena; Hayveynu Shalom Alechem.) Our art teachers tried to teach us to draw +"useful" objects, like cars, trains and horses. My friends' homes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017108.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017108.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..da4804b261fa2c81d0df5699a70d896cb02affb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017108.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +We ran to the train station only to find no one tending +the token booth. My uncle had one token and so the two of us squeezed through the turnstile on +his one token. My Uncle Itchie stowed away on a ship headed +for Palestine in order to participate in Israel's struggle for statehood. My Uncle then swam from the ship to shore, evading +British authorities. To this day, I have no +idea what my parents believed about the nature of God, the literal truth of the Bible, heaven and +hell, or other issues... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017109.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017109.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1328149055d67c2f8bb592b4039d7371d2863700 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017109.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +alien to my rational mindset. (And I suspect, to my parents, if they even bothered to think about +it.) Everyone in the almost entire Jewish neighborhood (at least everyone who was part of the +modern Orthodox community) followed the rules. Few, I suspect, accepted the entire theological +framework that included the literal truth of the bible, the resurrection of the dead, heaven and hell +(which were not in the Jewish Bible) and the incorporeal nature of a single God. What we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017110.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017110.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd06540c10f8b19ca4a72badeb5cf8126f946e15 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017110.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +My mother said, "He's never even +heard of Florida." She was told to come to the hospital immediately. She saw me sitting in front +of my tray of food refusing to eat and screaming, "Miami, Miami!" To the nurses, that referred to +a city in southern Florida. As is typical in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, there +were two competing Yeshivas: One taught Yiddish, the other Hebrew. I started out in the Yiddish-speaking more traditional, school-named "Torahs Emes" (the Truthful +Bible), where my grandma... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017111.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017111.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73b24e93d096dcbd3c891009d125d87168209bdb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017111.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +No attempt was made to reconcile Torah (scripture) and Madah (secular +knowledge). They were simply distinct and entirely separate world views (or as my late colleague +Steven Jay Gould put it in his always elegant choice of words, "separate magisteria"). In the morning, they thought like rabbis; in the afternoon like scientists; +and there was no need to reconcile. It was like being immersed in a good science fiction novel or +film: one simply accepted the premises and everything else followed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017112.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017112.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e4bd3e93dfe180d5f78ba03e99aad9292447bcc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017112.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +To be sure, I was a mediocre Yeshiva student--actually I exaggerate: I was slightly worse than +mediocre, once having actually received a grade of "Bayn Ani Minus," which literally means +"mediocre minus." I couldn't even quite make it to mediocrity. At least I had something to which +to aspire! When I was in sixth grade, the school decided to administer IQ tests to all the students. The +school called my mother and said that I had gotten one of the highest scores. I was always... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017113.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017113.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c8fed4ba264a3efd22e1f5156a616460c97e5c57 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017113.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +traditional Jewish approach to learning and ritual-doubt all you want, but do! My mother couldn't understand or accept that. "I don't +care what you believe or don't believe," she would insist, "as long as you go to Shul, keep kosher +and don't work (broadly defined to include driving, watching television or going to a ballgame) on +Shabbas." That's all she asked of us. "Is that so much to ask!" +When we started to break the rules, my mother began to doubt her doubting. My mother... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017114.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017114.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e72c044cc540b0b9178489e5ff569b81570c204 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017114.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +There were of course street fights, in which I frequently participated - - more often +as victim than victor - - but the Borough Park section of Brooklyn was a safe neighborhood. [I +guess that's why my family was so mystified when my brother failed to return home from a +shopping errand immediately after the end of the Sabbath, on Saturday night. An hour passed +and there was no sign of Nathan, who we called, and I still call, Tully. It seems that they only had nine +Jewish males and they could not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017115.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017115.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f068e2bf4cb42873deec1c6992e3b33688f08cd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017115.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Two houses away from me lived Jackie Mason. Around the corner was Eliot +Gould (ne Goldstein). Woody +Allen grew up in a nearby neighborhood, as did Larry David. Joke telling among my friends was a competitive sport. (In those days there were new jokes +because our parents and grandparents didn't tell jokes—at least not to us kids, but older brothers +were a good source.) We didn't know anybody who actually made up a joke. Every rendition +would begin with, "I heard a good joke," or "have you heard... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017116.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017116.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b51c3333abee200cc0fb75e00c3701b5ebb032b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017116.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Although we were orthodox Jews, none of us abided by the orthodox rules regulating sexuality. The closest we ever came to a good squeeze was +when we went to the Cyclone at Coney Island. Sometimes we tried to pick +up non-Jewish girls at Coney Island, because we heard they had wild reputations (meaning we +could get to "first base"). We wore our basketball jackets, which said "Talmudical" - - our school +was Brooklyn Talmudical Academy. (The full name was Rabbi Isaac Elchanan... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017117.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017117.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a9d57638ec2989fef262cd103e3ff07135e84ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017117.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +One day, after I had done something especially egregious—I +threw a "dummy" dressed like me off the roof of the building, after threatening to "jump off the +roof" when my teacher threw me out of the class!?—the principal demanded of my mother "what +are we going to do with your son?" Without any hesitation my mother responded, "I don't know +what you're going to do, but as for me, I'm going to keep him." The principal threatened to send +me to another school called "R.J.J.," which we always said,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017118.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017118.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72d077751ba3d9436cf40f5089ec94b1e3de3f68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017118.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +None +of them thought I was "college material." +This assessment was recently confirmed by a classmate who I encountered in Florida. When we first spoke on the +phone, I asked him what he had done after leaving Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn. He told me +had had moved away and then come back to New York City for college. Though I was never a starter (except when one or two of the starters were sick), +I did manage to accompany my team to Madison Square Garden for the inter-Yeshiva finals. I +shared a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017119.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017119.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f873a65232b3281d3bc88d31833fd008debddb67 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017119.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +and Ralph Branca (whose mother, it now turns out, was Jewish!). Jackie Robinson, who was our +real hero, generally was driven to the stadium for safety reasons. I will never forget Jackie +Robinson's first game with the Dodgers. We made up a Hebrew name for Jackie Robinson, calling +him Yakov (Jacob) Gnov (Rob) buh (in) Ben (son). When the Dodgers were not at home, we would play softball in the parking lot adjacent to Ebbets +Field. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017120.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017120.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2efea55bae96e867cc12b3f566a92d9354c22ae1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017120.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +that word, at least to my family) Uncle Hedgie, who you always knew exactly what he was +thinking. When I began teaching at age 25, some of my more "proper" students objected to my constant +interruptions, until I persuaded them that being interrupted was a compliment, signifying that their +point had been made and understood. ("We get it.") Some televisions viewers have also written +to me about my penchant for interrupting opposing "talking heads." It's simply a matter of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017121.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017121.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..106e8312065fedd225252e6ec2531daebd37edf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017121.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +my head as a 55 year old memory association from a high school English class in which we had to +memorize the author's various works that we read but probably didn't understand. (To show how +little has changed in more than half a century of poor education, my daughter in her sophomore +year at Yale had to memorize and spout back on the final exam, the name of British landscape +portraits, the year they were painted and the museum in which they hang. It's as if God hadn't +invented... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017122.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017122.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..797a70e29c1fa4bb4623aa0ea65ffc9c9bb73614 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017122.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"another Bar Mitzvah boy" who had done a better job reading from the Torah, but who wasn't +nearly as good a student or person as Jerry. "We judge boys not by the quality of their voices or +their ability to memorize, but by their understanding of what they were reciting and by the lives +they lead based on their understanding." It was a direct put down of me, and so understood by +the congregation. You've always been a 75 +student and you'll always be a 75 student." (He gave me a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017123.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017123.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d23952093c98884f452de3f7d700c235f3fa81b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017123.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He too apparently believed in the +"Yiddisher (and Asian) Kup" theory.) +I did not come close to having an 82 average, but fortunately there was also a test that an +applicant with non-qualifying grades could take. Unfortunately, a high score alone on the test did +not get you in: you needed a combined score test plus grade average—to make the cut. I also won a New York State Regents Scholarship which paid me $1,400 to go to college. (I put +the money in an interest bearing account that paid for my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017124.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017124.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ceae1ba8b0d562fbe9c4472fce748ff3de405047 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017124.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Those must have been wonderful times to evoke such strong - and expensive - reactions. I then described a nostalgia weekend that I and six guys I grew up spent at the Concord Hotel in +the Catskill Mountains, where we once had gone to summer camp or worked as waiters. The guys +played one-on-one basketball and horse (even those who hated hoop as kids). We told jokes so +old you could give them numbers (itself one of the oldest jokes). As the Musak played "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017125.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017125.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..135acd814b4c20fd074afd35e35eb52627483534 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017125.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Our wives—most of whom had known us as adolescents agreed that we had been pretty nerdy +back then, but they prided themselves on having seen through the external faults that had +relegated us to C lists. "You don't need to buy the 50's in a store," one spouse quipped, "you guys +are walking memorabilia." Another turned an old phrase: "I was able to take my husband out of +the 50's, but I can't take the 50's out of him." +The early 1950s- my high school years from September 1951 to June 1955— were... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017126.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017126.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90f5d50eeabd77ef61e642a7c8335736a2b78c73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017126.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 2: My Secular Education-Brooklyn and Yale +I loved everything about Brooklyn College. The +students, though mostly Jewish, seemed diverse to me because so few were Orthodox. No one said +"Meturneshed." Every idea was acceptable (except, perhaps Communism, since the stench of +McCarthyism still hung in the air.) +I felt free to experiment with my thoughts and words, but not yet with my actions. I remained an +Orthodox Jew in practice and I did not try drugs or even alcohol.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017127.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017127.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7e99495d10c9568ee26ade8b958c0df4e39fd23 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017127.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Mostly, I worked very hard, achieving an A average and Phi Beta Kappa Honors, winning debate +tournaments and being elected president of the student council and captain of the debate team. Reading became my passion: literature (Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Bellow); philosophy (Kant, +Aristotle, Plato, Neitsche; history ( + and politics ( +). One of my favorites was John Hope Franklin, the first African +American appointed to the chairmanship of a department (history) in a college that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017128.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017128.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d5b5c57f3f4cf694b62473d4116f314009da608 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017128.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +grandmother laughed and said: "Berenkoff's no judge, he's a butcher." She explained that "his +first name is Judge," and then she spelled it out: "G-E-O-R-G-E," which she, with her Yiddish +accent, pronounced "Judge." +Shortly after New Year I got my letters of acceptance from the various law schools to which I +had applied. She +wanted me to go to Harvard. Until the day she died at age 95, when people ask her where I went +to law school, she replied, "He got into Harvard, but he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017129.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017129.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..539d6bfdf5cd901042cdf34fbe8ad3e948dea726 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017129.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When Abe Goldstein called on each of these men, he did it +nonchalantly without mentioning their heritage. But when he came to my name, he paused and +said, "Dershowitz, from the famous Dershowitz family?" The class burst out laughing. The hiring partner of +Sullivan and Cromwell, looked at my transcript and saw all A's, except for one C in Contracts. (I +was so angry with my Contracts professor that I immediately enrolled in Advanced Contracts with +the same teacher, and got an A). The hiring... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017130.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017130.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1047811c850aee6332c7e8aaefac5aa089da15eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017130.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +One of the partners +pulled it off and said "Young man, this is a restaurant, not a barbershop." +All first year law students at Yale are required to participate in a moot court competition. My +opponent was a classmate named Taft, one of whose ancestors was the President of the United +States and the Chief Justice; another a senator from Ohio and the third the mayor of Cincinnati. It +is fair to say at that time that Taft was one of the most prominent names in America. To provide support, she and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017131.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017131.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0f2558aa27ab22f9b2e725c6c4557d80d136d683 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017131.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Another professor who influenced my approach to law, but in a rather different way was Alex +Bickel, who taught me advanced constitutional law. The professor who had the most influence on my career choice was Telford Taylor, who +combined an active constitutional law practice with teaching and writing. Although we could not +have been more different in background and bearing— he was a tall, elegant WASP, had served as +a general in the Army, was the Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, always... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017132.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017132.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..499d6049a0e5ea8fd7fd3e8d6f0934f4c2d157a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017132.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +and trained to become a civil rights observer in the South. My family was frightened when I +traveled to Georgia and Alabama, but I returned unscathed but forever sensitized to the evils of +segregation. My law school career was a resounding success and I was ready for the next stage in my lifea +clerkship in the nation's capital. +45 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017132 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017133.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017133.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a93b72bc390c1f7bdc30da9088c3444c9ae17b11 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017133.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 3: My Clerkships: Judge Bazelon and Justice Goldberg +Appellate court clerkships, most especially with a Supreme Court Justice, are the most coveted +positions following graduation from law school. In 1962, there +were approximately 18 clerks serving the 9 justices; the chief justice had 3, the associate justices +were entitled to 2, but Justice Douglas--who rarely used his clerk--opted for only one. Although, theoretically, any +law school graduate can apply, most of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017134.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017134.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c80b1b18017645b4db5f4f1ddbac0371b62b24e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017134.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Professor Fritz Kessler, was +an older European trained academic who taught jurisprudence. One day, he was lecturing on +Freud's influence on German jurisprudence and he misunderstood one of Freud's most important +theories. After class, an older student, who had been a +Marine and was married to another student in our class, grabbed me and said, "You embarrassed +someone I love. If you ever do that again, I'll deck you." I was startled and replied, "How did I +embarrass your wife?" He said, "Not my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017135.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017135.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..55623fd4aa96e40b6e5b496033c8007100ffde47 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017135.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It +was a period of liberal judicial activism-the Zenith (or for those more admiring of judicial +restraint, the Nadir) of The Warren Court. My year of clerking for Judge Bazelon +Even more important than my substantive experiences in working with these two important +judges, was the personal impact they both had on my life. Although Judge David Bazelon was a court of appeals judge early in my clerkship he became +Chief Judge— he was at the center of Washington life, both socially and politically.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017136.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017136.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a7ec1bd0734e2f8207793f0c1b6017a0a6e0a147 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017136.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +David Ben Gurion." The next day they were on a plane to Israel, and that afternoon Kronheim +was standing on the balcony of the Prime Minister's house being photographed. "Ok, here's the final challenge: maybe among Jews and Americans, you're famous, but you'll +never get a picture with the Pope." Next day, they're off to Rome, and by afternoon, Kronheim is +standing on the balcony of St. A nun standing in the crowd turns +to the skeptical friend and asks, "Who's that guy standing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017137.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017137.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..acf79191d11dc2c0d6bd58ac48e310de39850031 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017137.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +which refused accept women for many years, or Jewish clubs, which limit their memberships to +my own co-religionists. (More on this later.) +Judge Bazelon played hard and worked even harder. For his law clerks it was all work, no play. We had to be in the office before he arrived, and his arrival time was never predictable, though his +secretary would sometimes tip us off about an unusually late or early arrival. He did not believe in vacation for the clerks-"It's only a +one year... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017138.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017138.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9a58dae006ea5c1f2e9f525d7ca09b48cc45f5fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017138.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"T've spoken to Abe Chayes," he said referring to a +Harvard Law professor who was then serving as legal counsel in the State Department. Come into work." +So off I went to the courthouse, where Bazelon gave us hourly updates on the Cuban Missile +Crisis until it was resolved by a deal. They did good." +Just a few weeks into my clerkship, Justice Felix Frankfurter resigned from the Supreme Court, +leaving the so-called "Jewish seat" vacant. Judge Bazelon was on the short list, along with +Senator... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017139.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017139.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eafc1b702a7aeb414cbbe9e0fe527117ba3552fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017139.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Judge Bazelon did the same with regard to criminal cases, especially those involving defendants +who could not afford an adequate defense and those with serious mental illnesses. Tell me if you find any injustices." +"But the case isn't even before you," I would protest, or "there were no objections and so the +issues aren't properly preserved for appeal." +"No matter. My job is to +figure out a way to bring about justice." +He told me about a conversation between the great Justice Oliver Wendall... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017140.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017140.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b033df3871d07599504404cdeb9d57ab0cca4603 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017140.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +When I told Bazelon about the justice quote from the Torah, he asked me why the word justice +was repeated. Wouldn't it have been enough to say "justice you must actively chase after." +"Why 'justice, justice." No word, or even syllable of the Torah is supposed to be redundant. The first means +compassionate justice, the second legal justice." Whichever came first in Judge Bazelon's court, +every decision that he wrote or joined combined elements of both. Durham was the defendant... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017141.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017141.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2de930c545874c619004c72d1fab0d5ffa483768 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017141.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The rest +were run of the mill criminal cases-murder, robbery, rape, assault and other street crimes. It +was a perfect combination for a budding law professor who was interested in constitutional and +criminal law. Our task began with a case record, which consisted of the appellate briefs filed by the lawyers and +an "appendix," which included relevant excerpts from the trial transcript and motions filed before +the trial court. Judge Bazelon would often ask me to read the entire transcript in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017142.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017142.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..421611961f757a013c22bbcabe52474e551ac303 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017142.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Opinions 1962-1963 +Alan M. Dershowitz, Law Clerk" +It is a treasured possession. My first case involved a man named "Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendell Holmes Morgan" -Quite a +name! "Daniel Webster," "Andrew +Jackson" and "Oliver Wendell Holmes." That's what Mr. He was an uneducated, but slick, +African American man whose parents were sharecroppers and who made his way to the District +of Columbia, where he apparently bought a dead lawyer's bar certificate in a junk shop. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017143.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017143.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a825411589b8b46f357f0a94d54f9ded33fa2437 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017143.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Not in the case of Daniel Jackson Oliver +Wendell Holmes Morgan, because his lawyer, Monroe Freedman, had done all the hard work and +made all the plausible arguments. Eventually Freedman and I became friends and colleagues, and he went on to become Dean of +Hofstra Law School and one of the nation's leading experts in legal ethics. The remaining cases during my year were in many ways representative of the Supreme Court's +future docket during the haydays of the Warren Court. Many dealt with the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017144.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017144.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2cceb43d8797cd457cc1494b62d4baaf2a6e484a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017144.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Years later, in my first popular book, The Best Defense, I summarized what I had first seen in +Judge Bazelon's chambers and had then experienced in several cases I had litigated as a practicing +lawyer. I called my summary "The Rules of the Justice Game:" +Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty. Rule II: +All criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors and judges understand and believe Rule +I. Rule Ill: +It is easier to convict guilty defendants by violating the Constitution than... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017145.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017145.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3cdfa012b56eb46752539bc1151c8f64edca9a18 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017145.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +One of the most intriguing cases during my year with Judge Bazelon began as an ordinary pick +pocketing of a wallet containing $14. Based on the sparse evidence, "the jury could have inferred +either that the wallet was picked from [the alleged victim's] pocket, or that it was accidentally +dropped from his pocket and was picked up by someone who ran off with it."l6 The judge +instructed the jury that there is a legal presumption that a defendant's "flight may be considered +by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017146.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017146.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5a725ee070fdd4ba5cda3e066c90afb9f460a1f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017146.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +He +therefore quite truly denies his guilt in the one case, but in doing so betrays his sense of +guilt with regard to the other. In addition to citing Freud and dozens of other psychological sources, I also invoked my favorite +novelist, Dostoevski, noting that in the Brothers Karamazov: +"the author describes how Ivan-the brother who had desired death of the father but had +not perpetrated the act manifests all the traditional symptoms of guilt described by +Wigmore, whereas the actual murderer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017147.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017147.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b05bfa0d82f462e05d2bec5fea1506028091ffbc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017147.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Although he provided few final answers, he pricked the +conscience of a nation, and he goaded the US Supreme Court into action in several +cases.... I pointed out that no student can go through a three-year course at any major law school without +studying the life work of David Bazelon-and I predict that this will be true well into the next +century. The reason for Bazelon's continuing impact is that his primary role as he saw it-was +to raise enduring questions, not to provide transient, trendy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017148.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017148.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..658123cd07efb0f1978d95ecaad0b1e05d5575a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017148.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Indeed he arranged for me to become an assistant to then Attorney General +Robert Kennedy-without even asking me! He wanted me +to aspire to a judgeship, perhaps even as a Justice of the Supreme Court, but I never wanted to be +a judge. (Neither, it turned out, did he, since he resigned from the Supreme Court after only 3 +years.) +Judge Bazelon, on the other hand, encouraged me to create my own unique career path and avoid +the "cookie cutter" paths for which most elite young lawyers opt. Half way... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017149.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017149.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a1211eade8e2d6d7d822e8c0b81d025f3ce5a34 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017149.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Grandmother." (Justice Steven Breyer, who succeeded me as Goldberg's law clerk, now sits in +Goldberg's old office.) +Before I knew I was to be selected by Justice Goldberg, I interviewed with several of the other +Justices, including John Harlan, an elegant aristocrat whose grandfather had also served on the +Supreme Court. He was impressed with my grades and my law review experience, but he gently +asked me why I hadn't worked during the summer for one of the "Great Wall Street... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017150.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017150.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5cba861e8af84ea94047aa846f07c235fa4d901 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017150.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My Year of Clerking For Justice Goldberg +Justice Arthur Goldberg was a man of action. Before being nominated at age 54 to the Supreme +Court by President John F. Unlike +most of the current justices, he would have been in the history books even had he never served on +the High Court. He helped merge the American Federation of Labor (AFL) with the +Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He +argued some of the most significant cases before the Supreme Court and other courts,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017151.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017151.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..463cdd7c77fa46cc3af913bc2bd6c4448ed97b91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017151.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For now, suffice it to say +that he knew that the key Justice would be William Brennan, since if liberal Brennan would not go +along with him he had no chance of beginning any meaningful dialogue. Since I had done all the +research, he assigned me the delicate task of trying to get Justice Brennan to join our opinion. It +was a daunting task for a 24-year-old law clerk to persuade a Justice of anything, but I went in to +see Justice Brennan and he listened to me politely without committing himself.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017152.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017152.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1960fad174721ff70b452871f2ced585b54c3555 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017152.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Lyon's Den, a popular New York gossip +column, carried the following vignette: [C] He was close to each clerk in a different way, +following our careers, advising us on life choices and encouraging us to "do great things." +Three months after I started working for Justice Goldberg I was in his secretary's office while she +was talking on the phone to her husband who was an officer in the U.S. armed forces. We turned on a small television set that had been in my cubicle ever since the World... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017153.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017153.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..631300a9486afe5218a6d5a3ece1cabbb93818e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017153.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Another controversial issue during my year on the Supreme Court was obscenity. I recall Justice +Goldberg coming back from a screening of an allegedly obscene movie called "The Lovers" and +saying "That damn movie ought to be banned, not for obscenity, but for fraud. There were no +good dirty parts." There was another case involving a dirty book called Fanny Hill. The book +was not included in the record, but Justice Goldberg wanted to read it. Some people think that Goldberg was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017154.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017154.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7837bcdd1ca690092e841b9f539dfc9b6ac5c6a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017154.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +One day while he was hearing arguments, and I was working in the office, I received a note from +the Justice asking me whether it was required under Jewish law that an orthodox woman always +wears a hat, even while arguing a case in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had a rule +prohibiting wearing any head covering. But Goldberg was willing to insist that there be an +exception if there was a religious obligation. Just as I did so, I got another note from Justice +Goldberg... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017155.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017155.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc3681a033ae89672073c3c0774363d33d09b738 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017155.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Before I leave the Supreme Court, I must recount one vignette regarding Justice Goldberg that +caused me considerable disappointment. A few years later, I +asked Bazelon, who smiled, and said "I probably shouldn't tell you, but it's important for you to +know that there are no perfect heroes." He continued, "Hoover and Goldberg got along well, +because when Goldberg was the lawyer for the labor movement, he worked hard to rid the C.I.O. +of Communist influence." I asked whether that meant he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017156.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017156.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b7a06bf8186a25339634733767e6e44120145a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017156.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"What about Marshall?" +"Thurgood had a drinking problem that got him into some sexual trouble. He went into therapy +and Hoover gave him a pass." +I asked Bazelon how he knew, and he told me that Marshall had sought his advice about a +therapist and that the Goldberg story was well known among his close circle of friends. About a year after I finished my clerkship with Justice Goldberg the phone rang one night. It was +Dorothy Goldberg, she was sobbing, "Alan, make him change his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017157.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017157.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..143faad9bc134a98f542ad515ed4a4c23dc688ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017157.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Goldberg seat on the Supreme Court. He has proved to be an extraordinary judge and is one of +the fairest people I know."' +Some lawyers describe their clerkships as interesting or career-enhancing "jobs." My clerkships +were life-changing experiences, which continue to influence me to this day. There could be no +better preparation for my life as a professor at Harvard Law School. +19 When he was finally appointed to the Supreme Court, he invited me to come to his swearing in +at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017158.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017158.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b8a54b3c957cb3621f98031a747f99b14040282 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017158.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 4: Beginning my life as an academic—and its changes over time +I moved to Cambridge with my wife and two sons during the late summer of 1964. We rented an +apartment, first in Brookline and a year later in Cambridge. I was called the "Boy Professor."20 It was intimidating and +scary. When I began teaching in +1964, the two "best" teachers were reputed to be Clark Byse and Ben Kaplan. There were no classes at Yale Law School on how to teach law-and no +instruction books. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017159.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017159.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..993d383d84f68518ca5e0c2a3805772d42325231 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017159.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +class I deliberately made a mistake in asking about a case. A student sheepishly raised his hand and said, "Professor, there was no jury instruction - - +the case was tried before a judge." I said, "Woops - - I made a mistake. Sometimes my mistakes in class were completely unintentional and darn embarrassing. The courts described this as a "Chinese Wall" because it had to be impenetrable. I +was raising the possibility that one prosecutor may have improperly leaked information... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017160.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017160.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a9dfea7c583d380b34e7be958e470921881c498 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017160.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In London, I was invited to represent the Harvard Law School at the 750 anniversary of the +Magna Carta at Westminster Abby, where I sat several rows behind the Queen. While in Paris, I was offered the +opportunity one night either to attend a Paris opera or to hear a new group of British pop singers. My mother loved to write me letters at Harvard and she would always address me as "Ass Prof," +the abbreviation for assistant professor. Naturally, a student came upon one of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017161.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017161.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23b528c3255d216cefb898d743be9d1a7272cba7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017161.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Professor Dershowitz sees his job not as teaching "the specifics of law in any jurisdiction; +anyone can find that on his own," but to teach his students how "to ask the right questions +and bring to bear the right information for the right purpose." In short, her purports to +teach his students how to think critically and teach themselves. One distinguished alumnus +spoke for many when he wrote: +"Professor Dershowitz seems to epitomize some of the lack of reality at the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017162.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017162.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a4b5276fb2656a9e9222d853ef148283e797684 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017162.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I had to, with +every single class, say something original, teach something original that had never been written or +said before by anybody. That was my aspiration, and I worked hard to achieve it. Law, of +course, was based on precedent: you got points for showing that someone, particularly a judge, +had said earlier what you are saying now. It reminded me of my Yeshiva +education. Every single class had to have something new. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017163.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017163.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..085e848c096965def5da906b301340ed4e2a9bbd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017163.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +When I began teaching, Harvard Law School had been admitting women for only about a decade, +and some of the professors still didn't believe that women could make really good lawyers. The star student in my first year class was a woman from New York who eventually became a +distinguished judge. Accordingly, I proposed "blind grading" of all exams, so that professors could not +find out the gender of the student until after the grades were submitted +Several years later, my wife... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017164.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017164.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db957ac239c97e5ecd1d8b30cffb5842a164804c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017164.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Dean Griswold wasn't particularly comfortable with Jews either. I told him I was kosher, to which he responded: +"Even the Catholics have eliminated the prohibition against eating meat on Friday. For more than a year, Griswold called me "Shapiro," which was the name of another assistant +professor, with whom I had nothing in common, except a Jewish sounding name. Shortly after I was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty, I received a call from Judge +Aldrich inviting me to present a talk to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017165.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017165.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82a40fd68cf0b381fd7dd78c00d8fb9cc4851f98 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017165.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +chances." That was the last I heard, until a few years later when Dean Griswold informed me that +the chairman of the overseers subcommittee being asked to review and approve the faculty +decision recommending me for tenure, was an active member of "the Club." I was ready for a +fight. Following my talk, there was a dinner in my honor at the local university club. I refused to cross the picket line and the dinner had to be moved to a different +venue, over the strong objections of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017166.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017166.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2d420834f40fc5c3e2540197b845228f268adfef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017166.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +constitutional law weren't sound enough, and subsequently became one of the most distinguished +law professors at Yale, advised me against going to Harvard: "You won't fit in there," he warned +me. When I recounted this story to my Harvard colleague of 50 years, he replied: "Alex was +right. Because the article insisted that these decisions should be based on legal rather than +medical criteria, and because it was somewhat critical of certain views espoused by my mentor +Judge... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017167.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017167.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..809a049e54864b21d921b54b0556952779d6f53b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017167.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Kosslyn on Neurobiology and the Law; a large class with Professor Steven Pinker on the subject +of Taboos; and a series of freshman seminars entitled Where Does Your Morality Come From? Between my +earliest articles on the preventive detention of the dangerously mentally ill and my recent series of +books on the prevention of terrorism, my major academic focus has been on prediction and +prevention of harmful conduct. I coined the term "The Preventive +State" and have been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017168.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017168.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56c611cab3a42bf0491062f55a9bd8a0dccdb18e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017168.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +As I wrote in Rights from Wrongs: +This balance is part of our dynamic system of governing, which eschews too much +concentration of power. American sovereignty, unlike that of most other Western +democracies, does not reside in one branch of government or even in the majority of the +people. Our sovereignty is a process, reflected in governmental concepts such as checks +and balances, separation of powers, and judicial review. When +I espoused the need for "torture warrants" to cabin the widespread... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017169.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017169.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae1ed7c8c3e9e8e533004ecf71b01486e6a0cf00 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017169.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The question I'm most often asked about my classroom teaching is how the students have +changed and how the teaching of law has changed during the 50 years I have been at Harvard. The vast majority of our students are no +longer the white American males that dominated the classroom in the early 1960s. Today's students are also older, with more work experience. A typical case that +comes across my desk and that I now teach about is as follows: +A man born in Israel becomes a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017170.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017170.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eee57d819e27517e0e5b684aeec4ea894bc55acb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017170.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The same is true of liberals and everyone +else. I always play the devil's advocate, challenging every view, questioning every idea, pushing +every opinion. In doing so, I learn a great deal from my students. When I was offered the job at Harvard at age 24, I knew that I was qualified to teach theoretical +subjects, but I worried about my lack of real world legal experience, since I had never practiced +law. (One summer at a law firm between my second and third year at Yale does not a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017171.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017171.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ea37cd7658070677417c19285d31c2f2c8eca3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017171.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Part II: The changing sound and look of freedom of speech: from the Pentagon Papers to +Wikileaks and from Harry Reems' Deep Throat to Woodward and Bernstein's "Deep Throat." +Chapter 5: The Changing First Amendment-New Meanings For Old Words +I always wanted to be a First Amendment lawyer. I may have had a Fifth Amendment right to +"remain silent," but I rarely exercised it. The First Amendment has always +been my favorite part of the Constitution, not because it is first among... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017172.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017172.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a6840a7178404199d02ac0921cff6c5903de2c5d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017172.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Mencken used to bemoan the reality that: +"The trouble about fighting for human freedom is that you have to spend much of your life +defending sons of bitches: for oppressive laws are always aimed at them originally, and +opression must be stopped in the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." +In each instance, I've stood up for an important principle: the right of the individual, rather than +the government, to decide what to say, what to show, what to hear, what to see, what to teach, +what to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017173.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017173.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7645d4f35cd8faaf9191ebfb6b57e9078c607427 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017173.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My favorite characters in the Bible and in literature are those who challenge authority: Adam and +Eve defying God and eating the forbidden fruit of knowledge; Abraham chastising God for +threatening to sweep away the innocent along with the guilty; Moses imploring God to change his +mind about destroying the "stiff-necked" Jewish people. My favorite Justices of the Supreme Court are the dissenters. The First Amendment would have been nothing more than a parchment promise had it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017174.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017174.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cd78f58510c61073ea60f6e27b462c77959e486 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017174.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +For example: +"the freedom of speech shall not be abridged by Congress or by the states." Indeed, many +scholars and judges believe that this was accomplished three quarters of a century later when the +14 Amendment was ratified. It provides in relevant part: +"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of +law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." +The current judicial view is that the words in the 14"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017175.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017175.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1fc2cf5216357c376a937d358bbcc82ad04d3d5e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017175.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +conviction on the ground that "Cohen's absurd and immature antic" was "mainly conduct and +little speech." Under this approach, "all" speech remains constitutionally protected, but if you +don't like the content of a particular speech-"Fuck the draft" worn on a jacket-simply call it +"conduct" and by slight of hand (or abuse of language), the constitutional protection vanishes. In +other words, First Amendment absolutists— those who claim to read literally and apply absolutely +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017176.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017176.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb93989eb6fa028f5f64a64cedb6ff80a450d909 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017176.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Fighting Words: Speech that is so offensive to some that it may cause those who hear it +to react violently. Criminogenic speech: Violent sexualized images that may cause, directly or indirectly, +such harms as rape or sexual harassment. +4. Disruptions: Expressions that are designed to disrupt speakers or otherwise prevent +opposing views from being expressed or heard.?8 +These alleged harms sometimes overlap, as with obscenity which may offend and also cause +violence against women, or racist... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017177.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017177.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a7b0aa356661017031f54cdeea943c06ef55a59e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017177.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +From the beginning of my +career as a First Amendment lawyer, I have taken aim at this analogy, both in my writings and in +my cases. The case that gave rise to the "Fire!"-in-a-crowded-theater analogy— Schenck v. United States- +involved the prosecution of Charles Schenck, who was the general secretary of the Socialist Party +in Philadelphia. In 1917 a jury found Schenck guilty of attempting to cause insubordination +among soldiers who had been drafted to fight in the First World War. As Justice... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017178.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017178.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adac20190c18e2d77f598af1c7d4fc7cd096ded6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017178.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Indeed, in that respect the shout of "Fire!" is not even speech, in any meaningful sense of that +term. 29 It is a clang sound - the equivalent of setting off a nonverbal alarm. Had Justice Holmes +been more honest about his example, he would have said that freedom of speech does not +protect a kid who pulls a fire alarm in the absence of a fire, in a theater when there is no fire, and +thereby causes a panic. The +proposition that pulling an alarm is not protected speech certainly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017179.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017179.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a350c22de0e0be8256d31389d1d4687695dcb4a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017179.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +high authority of the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In several of +them, those advocating censorship have cited a state supreme court that held that "Holmes' +aphorism…. applies with equal force to pornography." Another court analogized "picketing … +in support of a secondary boycott" to shouting "Fire!" because in both instances "speech and +conduct are brigaded." +A civil rights lawyer, in a New York Times op-ed piece, analogized a baseball player's bigoted +statements... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017180.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017180.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e85f99aef9cad24e5f96c7788e55d1f04217d9cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017180.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +But any attempt to analogize political ideas in a pamphlet, ugly parody in a magazine, +offensive movies in a theater, controversial newspaper articles, or any of the other expressions +and actions cataloged above to the very different act of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater is +either self-deceptive or self-serving. Abbie Hoffman, on whose Chicago conspiracy case I worked, once described an occasion when +he was standing near a fire with a crowd of people and got in trouble for yelling... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017181.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017181.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e20c8a19914265c08f9e1f30db8baaf56240f3b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017181.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 6 Offensiveness- Pornography: I Am Curious Yellow and Deep Throat +Freedom of speech is not free. As kids, we recited the following ditty: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will +never harm me." Before too long we learned, often from painful experiences, how wrong it was. You may remember that in the 1970s, the comedian George Carlin listed the seven words that +could never be uttered on radio or television. The list included such innocent words as "piss"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017182.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017182.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ee1b2290e75511d9556de5c1dc8a3e369e56934 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017182.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +defended the right of skinny dippers to an isolated section of the Cape Cod National Seashore. +(In 197, a federal district court recognized a limited right to nude sunbathing in areas that +present no conflicts with the rights of others. The decision, despite its limited scope was +characterized as a "Magna Carta for nudism.") +Pornography, like nudity, offends many Americans, but there are those who would ban not only +public displays of pornography, but private use as well. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017183.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017183.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45ded604737747e5ad5577851e5efebfaf55516d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017183.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I am Curious Yellow +My initial professional encounter with the First Amendment involved a direct challenge to the +concept of offensiveness in the context of a Swedish anti-war film called I Am Curious Yellow. The story involved a young girl coming-of-age both politically and sexually during the Vietnam +War. By +today's standards, it could be shown on cable television and in art theater with an R rating, but in +the late 1960s, it was scandalous. (The young girl who played the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017184.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017184.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6edfb5c8fdca8e29d00cfbe6aba3663217a59379 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017184.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +We asked the three judges to +enjoin the Boston prosecutor, a man named Garrett Byrne, from prosecuting the theater owner. When I learned that Judge Aldrich would preside over the panel selected to hear the I Am +Curious Yellow case, I was concerned that he would remember the incident we had when I turned +down his invitation to speak at his restricted club, and hold it against me. I didn't know the other +two judges, both of whom were Italian American and Catholic. One of them, Judge +Julian, +had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017185.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017185.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70cda7af9b078e84ce0159382bc49b5cae37d498 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017185.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Judge Aldrich immediately expressed skepticism about the reach of my argument, suggesting that +the Stanley decision wasn't relevant to a movie theater. He told me about his grandmother who +"once went to a movie entitled Sur Les Troits de Paris. She +didn't after she got there of course...I heard about it." I assured him that we had dealt with that +problem by providing a "prologue" that advises the audience who are admitted only before the +film begins what they are about to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017186.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017186.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a764715ffd62d1f461843ab51752d3ade9f44e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017186.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +JUDGE ALDRICH: He's looking after my grandmother who went to see Sur Les Toits +De Paris. DERSHOWITZ: The only valid basis for punishing obscenity ...is to protect people +[like Judge Aldrich's grandmother] from being offended, from having something thrust on +them in an unwilling manner and also to protect youngsters. Judge Aldrich immediately interjected: "Are you trying to bribe us to decide the case so we don't +have to see the film?..I will admit that's the best bribe I have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017187.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017187.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36b00317dd46d3ceb92278bc45c2c705369dbc0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017187.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Yet we don't probe the motives of Presidents and Vice-presidents and Senators in +speaking. I think the First Amendment would be virtually a dead +letter; [if] we would only permit people to speak who spoke simply for art for art's +sake or politics for politics' sake... There would simply be no films being manufactured in this country +and that aspect of the First Amendment will have substantially suffered +I then returned to my distinction between an enclosed theater and an open display. If Grove... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017188.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017188.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96c758331c37696c83fb0f92ce3bc4c2d6267b54 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017188.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +That was precisely the argument made by the State of Connecticut in the birth +control [clinic] case. They said that people of the State of Connecticut are +offended by knowing that this kind of immoral conduct is being engaged in by +people, married people, all over the State. And the Supreme Court did say that +this is something that members of the society must tolerate in a pluralistic society. Judge Julian asked whether "that interest [should] be legally protected?" +Mr. At one point Judge... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017189.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017189.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4253e23a9217bc943e8fd16abb57903fbc1ed9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017189.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In Stanley [the] Court held that in certain circumstances possession of a moving picture +film is constitutionally protected even though by contemporary standards the film is +obscene. The Court then went on to consider the state's argument that an obscene film, even viewed in a +restricted theater, can induce the viewer to commit rape. The question is, how far does Stanley go. Defendant points to the fact that the court +in Stanley stated that Roth v. Yet, with due respect, Roth... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017190.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017190.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..880f61b39f6b56f1ff6c469b83550a91eb3e392f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017190.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I expected to be questioned aggressively by the +recently appointed Chief Justice Warren Burger, who I had known when I clerked for Judge +Bazelon. Burger and Bazelon were arch enemies, both ideologically and personally. I had hardly reached the lectern to begin my argument, when Chief Justice Warren +Burger asked if he could "interrupt" to inquire whether I thought a state had the power to prohibit +a "bear-baiting contest." I didn't know exactly what a bear-baiting contest was, but I guessed +that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017191.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017191.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26d13526944921b0cedecb2770ebf054704a5bea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017191.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Finally, the Chief Justice asked me about theaters: +[Hlow about moving the bear-baiting into a theater and charging $5 admission for it? With less than a minute before my time had expired, the Chief Justice asked whether I thought the +analogy to the bear-baiting contest was "valid." I politely told him what I thought: +I think the analogy of bear-baiting is not valid [because it] is an illegal act which hurts +animals. The Chief Justice had monopolized the entire argument with his bear-baiting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017192.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017192.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a7eb99ef5039efbdfdcda764f10cda324ab2cce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017192.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +We categorically disapprove the theory... that obscene, pornographic films acquire +constitutional immunity from state regulation simply because they are exhibited for +consenting adults only...The States have a long-recognized legitimate interest in the +quality of life and the total community environment, the tone of commerce in the great city +centers, and, possibly, the public safety itself. But as I promised Judge Aldrich, I continued to press my principle in the court of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017193.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017193.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72b889a6bbe924952a1d504fe61697e7496143da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017193.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Deep Throat: Why I Chose Not to Watch It +My initial victory in the I Am Curious Yellow case-getting a three judge court to declare +unconstitutional all obscenity laws that applied to adults-only theaters-made me something of a +hero in the "adult film" industry-and something of a pariah in the radical feminist community. +(More about the latter soon.) Many "obscenity" clients came my way, including the musical play +Hair which was "banned in Boston" and several "soft core" films... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017194.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017194.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..724008ce75bd97fb7c6855a5f5af682b190c3262 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017194.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In order to get out of the conspiracy, according to the government, Reems was obliged "to take +up affirmative actions to defeat and destroy the conspiracy." But what could Reems have done? He could not have "exposed" the crime, as one might expose a secret conspiracy, since everyone +knew that Deep Throat was being distributed throughout the world. The jury, selected from residents of Memphis, a city proud of being called "the buckle of the Bible +Belt," convicted Reems and his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017195.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017195.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea68934f5f8af8bb7184acb4e24ba2b515b2265a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017195.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +the warning to evildoers in Romans 13:4, that God had appointed ministers on earth to carry out +his wrath against them. Many observers saw the decision to bring Reems to trial as evidence of Parrish's creativity. As a +Memphis lawyer, familiar with Parrish, put it: "Parrish figured that putting an actor on trial was +the way to get publicity [and] a man is less likely to pick up public sympathy than a woman." +Parrish acknowledged that his purpose in prosecuting Reems was to made... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017196.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017196.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6c57e4adc7e873cf99fdacdc35b05885b4388ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017196.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +newspaper, book, painting or magazine can be hauled into a Federal court anywhere in the +United States and charged with participating in a national conspiracy." +Shortly thereafter, Nat Hentoff wrote a long front-page analysis of the Village Voice. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation's preeminent +constitutional lawyers, has never been known as an apocalyptic civil libertarian. Accordingly, when Professor Dershowitz speaks of the recent criminal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017197.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017197.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..afdcc05b7a4f766a6ceb3ed3c38acf9c571e749a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017197.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +He noted that the crew of the Glomar +Explorer, [which] had been shown a videotape of Deep Throat, had more to do with +transporting obscene material in interstate commerce than Harry Reems did. Would Larry +Parrish prosecute them? When I asked Parrish, he said: "They're not insulated against +prosecution." +Not all the stories were flattering. Mike Royko complained in a syndicated article how depressing +it was that after two hundred years of men like Jefferson, Paine, Debs, and Darrow, "we are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017198.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017198.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..895854091eb4d98b57fe71b22da87d36e148d137 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017198.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Several weeks prior to the scheduled showing, Gloria Steinem had written an article in Ms. +magazine about Deep Throat and the exploitation of its female lead, Linda Lovelace. Pointing to +the $60 million allegedly made on the film, Steinem characterized Deep Throat as "a national and +international profit center and dirty joke." At the heart of the joke was Linda Lovelace "whose +innocent face offered movie-goers the titillating thought that even the girl-next-door might be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017199.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017199.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78b46b97f20c9e6d9ac8e3b3bb64fca6077178fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017199.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The threat to boycott motion-picture studios and television stations +that employed "red," "pink," or "suspect" actors, directors, or technicians, led to the notorious +"black lists" and "red channels." In an interview with Playboy magazine, I had expressed some of +those concerns: +"Take what [some of these] women are now doing and ask yourself the question. If you would say no, then it seems to me that you can't be in favor of a +boycott against stores that sell Playboy and Penthouse, because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017200.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017200.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73f995a5786e794dc695447c4db17fa3a4ab7950 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017200.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The First Amendment seemed to be in full bloom at Harvard. The Quincy House Film Society was going to show Deep Throat; the +Harvard administration was expressing but not imposing its views; the feminists were preparing +pamphlets, slide shows, and speakers to present theirs; and everyone was free to see and listen to +all or none of these expressions. Many in the Harvard community, +while supporting the right of the Quincy House Film Society to show Deep Throat, now believed +that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017201.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017201.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..433b7f440d92caa4109f8c468eef981e5305ce37 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017201.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +After some legal argument, Judge Alberti declared that he was ready to see Deep Throat to +decide whether it was obscene. Judge Alberti insisted, however, on having Deep Throat +screened for him. I +would tell the jurors that I had never seen Deep Throat because I had chosen not to, and that they +had never seen Deep Throat because they had chosen not to. I would remind the jurors that it was the District Attorney who was making them see +a film they had chosen not to see, in order... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017202.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017202.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e5b496867c7a69ef3aa8829e53f92ed32929921 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017202.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Notwithstanding the judge's ruling that the film was not obscene, the District Attorney decided to +arrest Stork and Hagen. The Deep Throat case was so important to Droney that he pulled one +state detective off a murder investigation to watch the film and make the arrest. Amidst shouts of "Free the Quincy House Two," Stork and Hagen were taken to Cambridge +Police Headquarters and booked on charges of disseminating matter they knew to be obscene, +despite the reality that they... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017203.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017203.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5fdea40d72ba0bc49679c1b05b58c6efa01498b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017203.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"They don't follow the Supreme Court in the United States," he exclaimed +"Now that's a subject worthy of study," I replied. It is important to remember that in a democracy, even a democracy in which the Supreme Court +plays so central a role, that in the end the people decide. The law in action today bears little resemblance to Chief Justice Berger's +"categorical... disapprov[al] of [my] theory that obscene, pornographic films acquire +constitutional immunity from state regulation simply because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017204.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017204.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..57e9dbe492f17dc7c12a8ab49999415171ebc0a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017204.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Here is the definition as set out in a +model statute introduced in several state legislatures by radical feminists: +Pornography is the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women, whether in pictures +or in words, that also include one or more of the following: (i) women are presented +dehumanized as sexual objects, things or commodities; or (i1) women are presented as +sexual objects who enjoy pain or humiliation; or (i11) women are presented as sexual +objects who experience sexual pleasure... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017205.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017205.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba7716db1841b99112bdb6749c7f3ab4bff9a7df --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017205.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +our democratic system of checks and balances in which the ultimate check is an informed public. As James Madison cautioned nearly two centuries ago: "A popular government, without popular +information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps +both." +118 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017205 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017206.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017206.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c659391f039445599f388fd70c87bd78e18de7b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017206.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 7 Disclosure of Secrets: From Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks +The conflict between national security and free expression is a real one. There is ample room in a diverse and free society for accommodating the desires of +those who get pleasure from porn and those who feel the need to be protected from the intrusion +of offensive material. But there +is no simple rule for the accommodation of free expression and national security, where the +expression may expose our security... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017207.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017207.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a31ac2b2c9f61ed91afb5e028af882bc6e69ddb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017207.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +There will be some cases of real and +intractable conflict between security and freedom. Our Constitution purports to resolve doubts in +favor of freedom, but there are cases where even that presumption will not resolve the problem: +where the authentic claims of national security will seem to outweigh the powerful presumption in +favor of free expression. It has been indeed fortunate for the survival of our liberties that there have always been some +Americans— often only a small group and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017208.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017208.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7de68356859304f5816c3e90d10b438a46a6eabd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017208.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I was asked to help confront this challenge early in my career in several important cases pitting +national security against the First Amendment. The first major Vietnam case was the conspiracy prosecution against Dr. Benjamin Spock, the +Reverend William Sloan Coffin, and several other antiwar leaders. Spock and eventually wrote an article for the New York Times about the case +after the convictions were reversed on appeal. The most publicized and notorious of the Vietnam... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017209.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017209.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..748f87798285bc2cf407bf7e9d54bd0e567ef35f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017209.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The release and publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 was perhaps the single most +important event in turning American public opinion against the Vietnam War. While the New +York Times and the Washington Post were fighting in court to continue publishing portions of the +Papers, Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska was taking more direct action: he convened an +emergency night-time meeting of his subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds-hard to imagine a +committee less relevant to the Pentagon Papers... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017210.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017210.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e5f4274c65f27056892b23c3a7a3a91fa910550 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017210.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Indeed, I +have never seen it even suggested that there was such an actual threat. [He, of course, +had suggested just that in his oral argument]...It quickly becomes apparent to any person +who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive +overclassification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national +security, but rather with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another. This is the lesson of the Pentagon Papers experience, and it +may... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017211.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017211.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b31806cc71486b7c0983227a939d23575217eaba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017211.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +During our pre-revolutionary, revolutionary and immediate post-revolutionary era, there were +many "radical," "irresponsible," "anarchistic and "anonymous" "rabble-rousers" and even "whistle +blowers," "eavesdroppers" and "leakers" who were believed to be endangering the "security" of +the government.46 "Secret presses" published "anonymous" or pseudononymous screeds, some of +which disclosed "secrets" or other "dangerous" information. The language of the First Amendment would seem to protect these... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017212.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017212.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..927d6befba80594ece0d6ad5a1d6f3faffdaf969 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017212.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +assault charges, but he also faced the possibility of being extradited to the United States to face +charges that carried far more serious consequences than those in Sweden. It was the possible +American prosecution that he wished to discuss with me. We +worried about the security of our lawyer/client communications, which some might think ironic in +light of Assange's penchant for disclosure of secret communications, but he had little choice but +to communicate about the legal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017213.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017213.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06c244c70febf1ff76af1960813bb8dcdc2277f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017213.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In other words, authors like Seymour Hirsh not only report the classified information given to +them by sources, they develop, encourage, and in other ways facilitate the continuing flow of +information-information which they know is classified and hence being illegally turned over to +them-from their "criminal" sources. For engaging in such journalism, Hirsh +wins Pulitzer Prizes, gets invited to White House dinners and to lecture at schools of journalism +which teach these methods. It is set... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017214.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017214.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6a706058bcf0a69d880f6f373bdf022b33ff71a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017214.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He allowed the chips to fall where they may and they +often fall on the head of the current office holders around the world +Prosecuting Wikileaks or its founder for "the crime" of publishing classified information, while at +the same time rewarding -- with prizes, access, interviews, and status - "reputable" journalists and +newspapers for doing essentially the same thing, would constitute selective prosecution. For example, Leona Helmsley, one of the most famous women in +America, was indicted for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017215.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017215.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..11b46e072724b7133c38baaec85ba651ff02455f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017215.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Not only has the verdict of history condemned the words of the Sedition Act, it has also +condemned the selective manner in which it was enforced against certain journalists and +newspapers but not others. If the publication of classified material is to be prosecuted, then all who +publish it should be prosecuted, not only the marginal, the powerless, the "irresponsible" and the +unpatriotic -- in the eyes of the government. If untrammeled prosecutorial discretion is permitted,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017216.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017216.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..700d871046c3195c431728f7e0574a017499a11a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017216.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Speech Codes +It is the great danger of top-down discretion in the area of regulating speech that led me to +express one of the most controversial views a free speech advocate can hold: I favor precise and +narrow "speech codes" on university campuses, for much the same reason I favor precise and +narrow national security codification. No one should +be allowed - in the famous but often misused words of +Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - falsely to shout fire in a +crowded theater,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017217.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017217.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a9235c80a61ec9cc7ab9879f39ad53d3222d179 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017217.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +In other words, is it more protective of freedom of expression to have a +"censorship common-law" to be applied on an ad-hoc basis by a dean, or to have a "censorship +code" debated and agreed upon in advance by the equivalent of the legislative branch of the +university - a student or faculty senate or some other representative body. I strongly favor a narrow code to a potentially broad common-law, because it provides advanced +fair warning and an opportunity to challenge the provisions of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017218.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017218.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54c58a75abaa414e6829e4a339788e019bf7fad1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017218.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +If a particularly inappropriate expression that had not been included in the +codification were then to be used, the committee could consider including it for future discipline, +but it could not be the basis for imposing discipline for speech that took place prior to its +inclusion in the codification. The virtue of a code is that it completely occupies the area of sanctions. In 2007, I taught a university-wide course with Professor Steven Pinker on the issue of Taboo. Most Americans are brought... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017219.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017219.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f789012518d39410167dc6cfc98eb2bcaa3e51c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017219.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 8: Expressions that incite violence and disrupt speakers +Pornography consumed in private does not require a balancing of rights-as explained in Chapter +6— because no one should have the right to tell an adult what to read, view or hear in his home or +in an enclosed area, like a theater, where no one is forced to go. Disclosure by the media of +national security secrets requires an exquisite, if not impossible, balancing of rights and interests, +as explained in Chapter... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017220.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017220.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf372b4fe84f6eb3d743253d0e228c8eb708f78b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017220.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Speech, not violence, is protected by the First Amendment. Hard as it may be to arrest these +"victims" rather than the provokers, the First Amendment requires that the government side with +the "bad" speakers, rather than the "good" violence-threateners. Shortly after arriving at Stanford in the +fall of 1970 for what I expected would be a year of scholarly research as a fellow of the Center +for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, I was asked to represent a tenured English +professor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017221.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017221.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af047ccef457dcc7cae0dc5e5e493a044219f100 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017221.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I persuaded the local ACLU chapter to become involved but I, and my research assistant Joel +Klein, took the lead in defending Franklin. Word quickly spread around the Stanford campus that I had gotten the ACLU into the case. President Lyman went on +the radio to attack me: +It is a myth that all speech is constitutionally protected. Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor come to Stanford to save +us all from sin—not even Mr. I responded with my own statement in the Stanford... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017222.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017222.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8dee29f8cab95464cf999c14c8adf48c0f79b7a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017222.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Expressions that deliberately disrupt a speaker with whom one disagrees +The Bruce Franklin case also included this alleged exception to the First Amendment-namely, +that although there is a constitutional right to heckle speakers (at least in some context), there is +no such right to silence a speaker by shouting him down. When Henry Cabot Lodge came to +speak at Stanford in January 1971, he was shouted down with cries of "pig" and "war criminal," +and then drowned out by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017223.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017223.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5c04c6b70ef4352970f6a77cdf4595ee0e3daee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017223.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"The Muslim Student Union orchestrated a concerted effort to disrupt the speech. This was more than a +"concerted effort to disrupt the speech." It was a concerted effort to stop it completely -- to +censor Oren's right to speak and his audience's right to hear him. Campus sources have characterized it as a "slap on the +wrist." Since the students had to be arrested to prevent the speech from being drowned out, the +District Attorney, quite understandably, commenced a criminal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017224.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017224.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..535f962a514a220a155fd761d4600154ba4fc97d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017224.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Yet signatories of the letter -- which never once criticizes the censoring Muslim Union students +while condemning those who wanted to hear the speaker -- include "Chuck Anderson," who +identified himself as President ACLU Chapter, Orange County and Chair, The Peace and Freedom +Party, Orange County;" (a hard left anti-Israel group), and "Hector Villagro," who identified +himself as "Incoming Executive Director, ACLU of Southern California." +Dean Chemerinsky, while opposing criminal prosecution,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017225.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017225.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2a79b557a3669a7adc0333f03f353c830e205ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017225.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The prosecution of those who tried to censor Ambassador Oren proceeded. There were some who criticized the prosecutor for bringing these charges, but I defended him on +the ground that prosecuting these student censors was his duty in protecting the First +Amendment: +It was imperative... that a public prosecutor apply the law to these students, because to do +otherwise would be to tolerate, if not encourage, conduct that would undercut the +constitutional rights of an invited speaker. This is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017226.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017226.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d02e466db03b4648da1803183a19e8433766ede --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017226.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 9: The Right to Falsify History: Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom +In some European countries, (particularly Germany, Austria and France), it is a crime to deny the +Holocaust. In other countries, such as Turkey, it is a crime to claim that the Turks engaged in +genocide against the Armenians, even though it is an historical fact recognized by scholars around +Under our First Amendment, no one can be punished either for denying or proclaiming that an +historical event... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017227.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017227.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47c0ea1a278bc8a79ced5f290bfbef737625191d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017227.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Chomsky wrote an essay that he allowed to be used as a foreword to Faurisson's next book, +about his career as a Holocaust denier! In this book, Faurisson again calls the gas chambers a lie +and repeats his claims about the "hoax" of the Holocaust. Faurisson, who said he had researched the trial, knew that his own source, Dr. Faurisson also knew that the three +women were "in good health." Yet he led his readers to believe that Dr. A French scholar named George Wellers analyzed this diary entry... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017228.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017228.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4686a52b64474b0771688082cfe54939cac2bde --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017228.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +A few years later, after it became unmistakably clear that Faurisson was consciously lending his +name to all sorts of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi groups, Chomsky repeated his character reference: +"I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even +denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim +that the Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously +so, by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017229.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017229.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e539eef531149dbab6868e3a16813494300cc6ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017229.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Church of the Creation". He had been denied admission to the Illinois Bar because of his neo- +Nazi views. Hale was invited to appear on the Today Show to be interviewed by Katie Couric. Couric +began by asking Hale to describe his views "in a nutshell." He went on about how non- +Europeans— by which he means Blacks and Jews— were destroying the "white race" and how he +was going to change that if he were admitted to the bar. Couric then asked me why I believed a man with Hale's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017230.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017230.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..594896746273a79817a38be52e6a552ebac01c5a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017230.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +KC: But you are using a Jewish lawyer when it's convenient and serves your purpose? AD: My purposes are the purposes of the First Amendment. AD: The only publicity you will get from me is the most negative kind of publicity +because I say, your ideas belong in a nutshell because they are nutty ideas, they are +reprehensible ideas... AD: And I have faith in the American people that they will reject your ideas in the +marketplace of ideas and you should not have the benefit of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017231.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017231.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5fc3a20047b0ca7f9f5c38d201bfe8e55142a81 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017231.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +It is a +commonplace among civil Libertarians that the appropriate answer to bad speech is good speech, +not censorship. I had the opportunity to do just that when the actress Vanessa Redgrave had a scheduled +performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra cancelled because of her controversial political +views and activities. She declined because she was on the Central Committee of the +Revolutionary Workers Party - a British Stalinist group - and the Party had to approve in +advance everything she... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017232.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017232.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41e686502ffb0114b105ec88c850e61bf2ed2f43 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017232.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The board has also proved that Redgrave has turned down roles such +as that of Andrei Sakharov's wife in an HBO production because she believed the film might be +seen as "anti-Communist propaganda". Several members of the audience were surprised to learn of her views on blacklisting Israeli +artists. Others said they knew of Redgrave's selective condemnation of blacklisting but didn't +care, because - as one woman put it - "anything is fair in the war against Zionism."S! In the end, the case was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017233.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017233.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a957ebd3ebee542b6923a9a14f0f5eb7685ab5fb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017233.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I +encountered this intellectual muddle-headedness in 2010 when I received an honorary doctorate +from Tel Aviv University and was asked to deliver a talk on behalf of the honorees. In my talk, I +defended the right of professors at the University of Tel Aviv to call for boycotts against Israeli +universities. This is part of what I said: +Israeli academics are free to challenge not only the legitimacy of the Jewish state but even, +as one professor at this university has done, the authenticity of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017234.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017234.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3dccec41b0a3382a185cc6f5c5fdb6a67f761f8a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017234.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +failed academic who had been fired from several universities, to obtain tenure at De Paul +University. Moreover, he had been dismissed by +Brooklyn College for abusing students who disagreed with his extremist views and had engaged in +sexist behavior at DePaul. He also argued that most people who claim to be victims +of the Holocaust-including Elie Wiesel —were "frauds" and "liars" and that the Holocaust itself +was being exaggerated for political and financial reasons. By falsely... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017235.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017235.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b1dde594072ac7f6727ab7a31fe9d335cec3273 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017235.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The final part of Mr. Finkelstein's quest for tenure is to blame his tenure problems on +"outsiders." He claims that I intruded myself into the DePaul review process, neglecting to +mention that I was specifically asked by the former chairman of DePaul's political science +department to "point [him] to the clearest and most egregious instances of dishonesty on +Finkelstein's part." I responded by providing hard evidence of made-up quotes and facts +- a pattern that should alone... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017236.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017236.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..847d5bfa38f7f5d1d0ee1915f3371df3590f7e29 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017236.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 10: Speech that Conflicts with Reputational and Privacy Rights +Defamation: "He that filches from me my good name:" +Whenever a Holocaust denier or defamer of the Jews spews out his poison, I get calls and emails +demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a "blood libel." But +under our First Amendment only an individual can be defamed. In other words you can say all you want about "the Jews," "the Democratic Party," "the +Blacks," "the Gays,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017237.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017237.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..295fd7263998e0227823fac74048de7c6787dd59 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017237.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Such criticism cannot, in my opinion, +be muzzled or deterred by the courts at the instance of public officials under the label of +libel." +Since I am a public figure under the law, I have been defamed on numerous occasions, especially +on the internet. Many years after New York Times v. This certainly made me appreciate our First Amendment. Here is the story: +One day in my office I opened an envelope and saw a notice that an Italian prosecutor in the city +of Turin had initiated a criminal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017238.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017238.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5b37ece2bc84a0316ef9e05fb9931ccb5999330 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017238.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"Despite their sometimes caustic nature, from the early cartoon portraying George +Washington as an ass down to the present day, graphic depictions and satirical cartoons +have played a prominent role in public and political debate. Nast's castigation of the +Tweed Ring, Walt McDougall's characterization of presidential candidate James G. Blaine's banquet with the millionaires at Delmonico's as "The Royal Feast of Belshazzar," +and numerous other efforts have undoubtedly had an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017239.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017239.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3d17cb242e2661dff3b8605e65ba47574648d64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017239.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It was commissioned by Norman Finkelstein and +used to illustrate an article he wrote calling for my assassination. It was a full-color cartoon by a +South American neo-Nazi portraying me as watching the Israeli Army kill Lebanese civilians. Since I am clearly a public figure, and since this was plainly a parody, it was +protected speech under the First Amendment. Privacy- The right to be left alone +The right of the media to publish purely private though truthful information was the subject,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017240.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017240.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3b14bc6105a9e08338452435beaa24bab7a37b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017240.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The only theory on which I thought she could possibly succeed was that Brooke's mother had no +right to surrender her daughter's privacy and that Brooke, now approaching adulthood, should +have control over her own image. Ultimately the court ruled, in a bizarre opinion, that Brooke had essentially waived her right to +privacy by allowing the photographs to be published earlier, and by pursuing a career in which she +has relied on her sexuality for her success. The court put it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017241.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017241.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48fcfcb7e0cfab86c634e77a2be4d7d8f788c25f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017241.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Eventually, the matter was resolved by "the court of public opinion" and the +"marketplace of ideas." Viewers of the blog were so outraged and the person who posted it so +roundly condemned, that the post was removed. Another area of conflict between the First Amendment and other provisions of the Bill of Rights +arises in the context of criminal trials, when the media seeks to publish information-such as an +excluded confession— that may prejudice a defendant's right to a fair trial. This practice... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017242.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017242.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..644048a77018b552d47db804a242fea7a93f8ba1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017242.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Conclusion: The Future of Freedom of Speech +Although most Americans support freedom of speech in the abstract, far fewer support speech +that hurts them. Let me propose a +test for my own readers to see whether you qualify to join "the First Amendment Club." +Do you really believe in the freedom of speech guaranteed by our First Amendment? Nearly two hundred years ago, the +French philosopher Voltaire articulated the fundamental premise underlying true support for +freedom of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017243.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017243.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cfb3bb25f13c6c6ca7ac297f4244cca5a54a66f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017243.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Some examples from my personal Hall of Fame of true First Amendment believers: +- Women against Pornography and Censorship is an organization that tries to educate +the public about what they perceive to be the sexist evils of pornography. But at the +same time, they try to educate about the evils of censorship, reminding their listeners +that if the government is given the power to censor pornography today, then +tomorrow it may demand the power to prohibit the publication of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017244.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017244.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..721e545f698d44ed56ddf5db8eefaa147e6717b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017244.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The First Amendment has undergone more change in the past fifty years than it had in the first +170 years of its existence. There are several areas, however, where the First Amendment remains in grave danger. Following the +publication by several Scandinavian newspapers of cartoons that depicted Mohammad, there were +threats of death and acts of violence. This led the Yale University Press to decide not to include +these cartoons in an academic book about the controversy. This act... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017245.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017245.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f2966a8a0392e3b6cf42c0d29fbfdfed2f8dfced --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017245.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Part III: Criminal Justice: From Sherlock Holmes to Barry Scheck and CSI +Chapter 11: "Death is different: Challenging Capital Punishment +From the beginning of my academic career, I taught classes involving the criminal justice system, +but I had little practical experience as a criminal lawyer. My primary exposure to the criminal +justice system had come during my clerkships, which focused on the death penalty and cases +involving the interface of law and science. Not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017246.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017246.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b3e2baae4e2e9cc0c081d8bfb61c09c7e0612b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017246.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Here is how [ find +author] +-, in his book + describes the origins of this lifelong collaborative effort. +[Justice Goldberg] called his law clerk Alan Dershowitz into his office and advanced the +decidedly immodest idea of using the Constitution to end the death penalty in America. "The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment," Goldberg told +Dershowitz. "What could be more cruel than the deliberate decision by the state to take a +human life?" +Alan Dershowitz immediately understood... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017247.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017247.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a71a5e73b6834962f36eebd190c2e5a75773588a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017247.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Just five years +earlier, Chief Justice Earl Warren had written in Trop v. Justice Goldberg asked me to talk to Justice Brennan and see +what his views were. Unless Justice Brennan agreed to join, the entire project would be scuttled, +since Justice Goldberg, the Court's rookie, did not want to "be out there alone," against the chief +justice and the rest of the Court. I had previously met Justice Brennan several times over the preceding few years, since his son, +Bill, was my classmate and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017248.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017248.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..091daaef98264c3de8cf4e8936009d236dc8638c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017248.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Justice Brennan had agreed to join a short dissent from the denial of certiorari in Rudolph v. In light of the trend both in the country and throughout the +world against punishing rape by death, does the imposition of +the death penalty by those States which retain it for rape violate +"evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of +[our] maturing society," or "standards of decency more or less +universally accepted"? +2. One extreme criticism appeared in the New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017249.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017249.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6196c5475943a5c5dcc465e300070ef9a3da2afc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017249.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This is what the Georgia Supreme Court said: +With all due respect to the dissenting Justices we would question the judicial right of any +American judge to construe the American Constitution contrary to its apparent meaning, +the American history of the clause, and its construction by American courts, simply +because the numerous nations and States have abandoned capital punishment for rape. First we believe the history of no nation will show the high values of woman's virtue and +purity that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017250.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017250.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6cef56589825046837b9e5971b4356bdc2c53270 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017250.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The strategy was simple in outline: The Supreme Court should not be allowed the luxury of +deciding the issue of capital punishment as an abstraction; instead, it must be confronted with the +concrete responsibility of determining the immediate fates of many hundreds of condemned +persons at the same time. In this way, the Court could not evade the issue, or lightly refuse to +decide it if the Court's refusal would result in the specter of mass executions of hundreds of +convicts.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017251.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017251.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..55b12d3a08c6e9ab4ccd288f0d23f778ba7f3624 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017251.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +This would not, unfortunately, be the High Court's last word on the subject. Chief Justice +Berger, in his dissenting opinion, provided the states with a roadmap as to how to draft death +penalty statutes that might pass constitutional muster with a majority of the justices. What ensued +was a constitutional ping pong match between proponents of capital punishment and abolitionists; +the proponents would draft new statutes, and the abolitionist lawyers would challenge them... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017252.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017252.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e585aba679758015b98d19a9839954b5b08a44f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017252.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 12: The death penalty for those who don't kill: Ricky and Raymond Tison +The story of the Tison case was the stuff of films and television dramas. Beyond the tragic facts of the case was the important legal issue they presented, since neither +Ricky nor his brother Raymond Tison actually killed anyone. Nor did they intend anyone to die +when they helped their father Gary and his cellmate Randy Greenawalt escape from prison. And for playing that role Ricky and +Raymond... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017253.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017253.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68fd82834ae328091448ed699aefb2e0dd0910a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017253.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The brothers had never had a "home father." They referred to Gary as their "prison father," since +he had spent most of his adult life behind bars, having been convicted of armed robbery and other +predatory crimes. On the way back to prison from a court appearance, Gary had overpowered the guard, killed him, +took his gun and escaped. Before he could escape, Gary had to get himself removed from the "escape risk" list and +maximum security-to establish a sense of trust in him by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017254.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017254.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0cf6c72baa9fd7d8e9b4fdef1186b1b359deada --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017254.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +But the escapees were keeping +to back roads in the old white Lincoln supplied by their Uncle Joe, a marijuana dealer. At about the same time, a young marine named John Lyons was driving his family on a vacation. About an hour into their road trip, John saw a young man standing on the side of the road next to +a white Lincoln waving his arms for assistance. Gary stopped and the Lyonses were ordered out of the Lincoln while the men cleaned out +the Mazda, put their guns in it, and loaded the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017255.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017255.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..30b2b19995c6dc06bec193a528cc66b082fbd50e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017255.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The largest manhunt in Arizona history was under way, involving patrol cars, helicopters, search +dogs, roadblocks, and a sophisticated communications system. The Tisons were exhausted, and low on money. Gary decided that they had to make a run for the +Mexican border, risky as that was. At 2:58 in the morning of August 11, a van approached a police roadblock. They knew, but the Tison's didn't, that there was a second roadblock +on the other side of the pass. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017256.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017256.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9aff856e9159d647ee2e0f302130817898345b14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017256.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The media presented the recurrent vision of the murdered toddler and expressed the view that "if +they hadn't gotten Gary Tison and Greenawalt out, none of this would have happened." The +press demanded the gas chamber. One editorial expressed chagrin that anyone had been captured +The two surviving brothers were tried and convicted of the murders, based on the account they +had given the authorities. Under the laws of felony murder and conspiracy, they were as guilty of +murdering the Lyons' family... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017257.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017257.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a108ea034d948525380700a92e0c29533b40ed1a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017257.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Before we filed our petition, I had received several phone calls from anti-capital punishment +lawyers imploring me not to file a petition for certiorari in the Tison case. "You may not have five any more." He urged me to leave well enough alone: +"We have Enmund. But if the Supremes take your case and reverse or limit Enmund, people will die because of you. You have to go by the numbers." +I understood his reference to "the numbers" as meaning two different things: First the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017258.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017258.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b769733a619a5a4f3a57f8f56ba33f5ebef17955 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017258.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +I began my argument with a simple statement that I thought would be beyond any dispute: +"The State of Arizona seeks to execute two young men who it acknowledges lacked the +specific intent to kill, and did not, in fact, kill." +I was immediately interrupted by Justice White, the author of the Enmund majority opinion on +which I was relying: +"Did you say the state concedes what?" +I repeated my point: +"The state concedes that there was no specific intent to kill, and that there was no... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017259.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017259.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..efde94e7ee0acaec60f343368d32a06885ce08fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017259.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Scalia asked me what my position would be if one bank robber had a gun and the other one +doesn't and the one with the gun "throw[s] the gun to the trigger man, as the policeman's +approaching him, he says, 'I need a gun,' and I throw the gun to him...I don't care whether he +kills the policeman or not." +I had prepared for every likely question I might be asked by the justices, but the idea of a gun +being throw by one robber to another had never occurred to me. I quickly recalled the facts of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017260.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017260.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3cb3d6431f06ed61d84f75177d67bc82f92bd791 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017260.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I was reminded of Chief Justice Berger's bear baiting hypothetical in the I Am Curious Yellow +case, but this time the stakes were much higher. I answered the Justice's question: +No. In Enmund the guns were provided. What Your Honor, Justice Scalia, is asking for, in a sense, is a return to the felony murder +rule where guns are provided. The dialogue continued: +Justice: +In Enmund, had he provided the gun? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017261.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017261.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24b84b52a448cf0040fbb773f50399f131960a3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017261.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +He was the one who planned the robbery. One of the codefendants, Greenawalt, directed what went on in the penitentiary. Their father directed what went on thereafter. There are findings by the Arizona Supreme Court that it was not necessary, that it was +spontaneous, it was not part of the original plan. This is just like Enmund +In Enmund there was spontaneity. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017262.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017262.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94d6d0b48bddf5e2e56dc2fa9820d15751eef322 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017262.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Now it was the +State of Arizona's time to argue. The Attorney General was hardly interrupted as he delivered his +argument. The Attorney General acknowledged that this "would be different," and that the brothers +"presence at the scene" is "essential," but he insisted that they were "present," even if not right +next to the car in which the shootings occurred. In light of the Attorney General's concessions, I decided +to point the Court to the record evidence that the brothers were not at the scene... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017263.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017263.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f2d09ef435d3f552d2527632dd21f51bc9cbda2b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017263.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The majority opinion began its analysis with the following acknowledgment: +Petitioners argue strenuously that they did not "intend to kill" as that concept has been +generally understood in the common law. As +petitioners point out, there is no evidence that either Ricky or Raymond Tison took any +act which he desired to, or was substantially certain would, cause death. ° +When I read these words, I thought that we had surely won. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who had dissented in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017264.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017264.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92cbda6a1d0dc6248fe689f39733ce8602d72992 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017264.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +She then went on to create a new category of crime that warranted execution even in the absence +of a specific intent to kill: +We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in +criminal activities known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental +state, a mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing +judgment when that conduct causes its natural, though also not inevitable, lethal result.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017265.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017265.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10b8e96bba38be577c9921a091132c88b53c2d93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017265.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Eventually, after a long and torturous road through the Arizona courts, the death penalties against +Ricky, and Raymond Tison were reversed. They would not be executed, despite the Supreme +Courts green light. Once again, as with the issue of obscenity, the Highest Court did not get the +last word. I +replied assuring him that I had checked, and that Jews and Christians go to the same heaven, so +that he didn't have to convert."1 +6 Another one of my clients, a far more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017266.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017266.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..031dfeb4e311ede46aa2d4831e741048b81ce8ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017266.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 13: Using Science, Law, Logic and Experience to Disprove Murder +Introduction +In 18 + Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. taught us that the life of the law has not been logic—it has +been experience. The Bible +recounts the murder of Abel by Cain. That crime was solved by God questioning Cain: "Where is +your brother Abel?" Cain's evasive answer -"Am I my brother's keeper?" — convinced God, and +the reader, of Cain's guilt. Both the Bible and Shakespeare also recount cases in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017267.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017267.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0cd381e7b5e1bba07591efbd6d5dc4c8df975dba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017267.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +This chapter tells the story of some of the many murder and attempted murder cases I have +litigated over the past 50 years. In many of them, I use science not only as a shield to protect my +client, but also as a sword to prove misconduct on the part of the prosecution, police or +laboratory technicians. Some of the cases are well known. Most of my cases have been appeals from convictions. This perception was +solidified by the approach many judges, such as the well respected... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017268.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017268.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6cafdb804ce0d0060b9e4a56202162f52565b820 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017268.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +6 In one case a client who was acquitted of murder was subsequently convicted of an entirely different type of +crime. I did not represent him the second time. He was convicted. +181 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017268 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017269.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017269.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87f430615ad395b4a75f4b5da314bee222e42c6d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017269.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +OJ Simpson and Claus Von Bulow +My two most famous-infamous?— cases involved homicide: the OJ Simpson double murder +prosecution; and the Claus Von Bulow assault with intent to kill (or attempted murder) +prosecution. I have written books about both the Von Bulow and Simpson case, detailing how +science was used to challenge the prosecution's case. Among the reasons I took the case was that Simpson was +facing the death penalty, and I have a policy of generally accepting capital... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017270.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017270.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cad1a5ae00cbad980e8705c4b3bd469aebe3f719 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017270.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The jurors were convinced by this and other evidence that the police had dripped +the blood from vials onto the sock to make it appear that the sock Simpson was wearing during +the murders had been splattered with blood at the crime scene. They acquitted +Simpson of killings for which a subsequent civil jury (with different lawyers) found him financially +My expertise in the science of disproving murder had been at the center of my earlier famous case +involving Claus Von Bulow. Von Bulow's original... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017271.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017271.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..607b34ffef541156e244dcb6f96607130fdd18ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017271.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"My father didn't kill my mother": the case of Dr. William Sybers +The call came from a young woman pleading with me to take her father's appeal. "It's just like the Von Bulow case," the +daughter insisted. She died +of natural causes." (No one seeking my help ever tells me their case is "just like" O.J. In these respects, it was like the Von Bulow and Simpson cases, but in the +Von Bulow case, the evidence, upon reexamination, pointed to innocence, and in the Simpson +case, a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017272.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017272.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e73b170175e32b396cb9b79a5e7a7eb89178b65e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017272.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The case +was now on "the front burner." It was also on the front pages of local newspapers. Boning to pressure from the media, the Governor of Florida appointed a lawyer named Harry +Shorstein-who was then the State Attorney in Jacksonville— to be a special prosecutor. With the single-minded +determination of an inspector Javert, Shorstein set out to get Dr. On February 18, 1997, Shorstein had Sybers indicted for capital murder. The indictment alleged +that he had murdered her with an "unknown... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017273.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017273.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7573dcf9c7887f717d77187c4c713762c28127f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017273.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The jury, after only a few minutes of deliberation, unanimously convicted Dr. After +graduating from NYU law school, he served as an appeals lawyer in the New York Legal Aid +Society where he argued hundreds of criminal appeals. Then he worked in a large law firm and at +the American Jewish Congress before starting his own boutique appellate law firm. I work on many of my most difficult cases with the firm-Dershowitz, Eiger and Adelson. We began by reviewing the scientific evidence, as we had in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017274.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017274.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c00937e073f047294ef7cec198349efc08cc341 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017274.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +We later learned that Harry Shorstein-who argued that appeal-had information that should +have led him to know or at least suspect that the test results he had presented to the jury were at +best highly questionable and at worst flat out false. We filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities, since such conduct +on the part of the prosecutor raises grave ethical issues. Shorstein then filed a counter-complaint +alleging— quite absurdly-that the very act of filing a complaint against him... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017275.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017275.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8982cf23b15a179b270849c9e4f269978098512 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017275.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The only question is who committed it. (Remember the "one armed killer" in The +Fugitive!) +Many of my homicide cases have not been who-dunits, but rather, was anything criminal done at +all. That was the issue in the Von Bulow and Sybers cases. It was also the question presented when +Ted Binion, the owner of the famous Binion Casino in Las Vegas—the home of the World Series +of Poker-was found dead in his home on September 17, 1998. Binion's live-in fiancé, Sandra Murphy-a young, sometimes exotic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017276.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017276.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a993b29aa1814b61e8a7e85b37e63fce652aaf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017276.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The jury deliberated for 8 days and found the defendants guilty. Since the jury could have +convicted based on that theory alone, if we could undercut it, Murphy would have to be given a +new trial. One important pillar of the burking theory was a "bruise" on Binion's chest that had been +photographed. Baden hadn't examined Binion's body, he had to rely on the photograph +alone. He concluded that the bruisewhich appeared consistent with the shape and size of +Binion's shirt button—had been caused by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017277.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017277.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ec2eb2ba117e31be0c86491c48adfab6be8562a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017277.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The prosecution responded that the only reason he wasn't in court was because my client had +murdered him. Our argument, they claimed, paralleled the classic definition of "Chutzpah": the +young man who murders his parents and then demands mercy from the court on the ground that +he is an orphan. But the conclusions that Murphy had, in fact, murdered Binion, of course, +begged the question to be decided by the jury: did Murphy, in fact, murder him? Although hearsay statements—... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017278.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017278.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b27602be3a529dee09b382cd78ea79d6847c291 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017278.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The jury at the second trial, having heard our new scientific evidence, acquitted Murphy of +murder. They believed neither the burking nor the cocktail theory. Murphy now lives in California, +where she runs an art gallery. +even though there was little other evidence of Binion's state of mind before his death. But +if the statement was relevant to show Binion's state of mind at the time he made the +statement, the exception still does not allow the statement to be used as evidence... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017279.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017279.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cc0830bdcab0a81fe23095e3c17ffd275e1a1d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017279.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Assisting Mercy Suicide +Another highly emotional case in which science was used to establish the immediate cause of +death involved the mercy killing by a doctor of his cancer-ridden wife. Although the media characterized Patricia Rosier's death as a "mercy killing," it is more aptly +described as a "mercy suicide," because she alone made the decision to end her life. Mercy killing— the taking of the life of another person who is suffering and usually no longer +sentient—is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017280.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017280.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b13b593dc9e1f9085c618a1767a98580897661a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017280.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +When the children learned of this, they pleaded with their +father not to take his life. No one tried to talk Patricia out of her decision to +commit suicide, for two reasons: first, she had made up her mind; second, it wasn't really suicide, +since her act would only hasten her imminent and painful demise by a few weeks. Patricia selected the day and time of her death and planned a formal farewell dinner for her family. After +dinner they watched the movie Harold and Maude, about an elderly woman... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017281.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017281.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e1fd101c9e49a3ecc60f7547b32ca0d10b9aa37 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017281.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Peter Rosier was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and +conspiracy to murder. The prosecution's theory was that the stepfather's ultimate act was merely +the final stage in a family conspiracy of which Peter was the architect and participant. Suddenly Peter Rosier found himself in jail, facing a possible death sentence in a state that has one +of the highest execution rates in the country. Right wing commentators, such as Patrick +Buchanan, compared what Peter did to what the Nazis had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017282.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017282.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e2294ee7927702ef59cb03d0d5ca843064db885 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017282.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The Suppression of Science: The Case of Jeffrey MacDonald +A case in which science has not yet produced a victory-or, in my view, justice is the 40 year +old "whodunit" involving the murder of the family of Jeffrey MacDonald. I had followed the Jeffrey MacDonald case in the media from its grisly inception on February 17, +1970, when the wounded Green Beret doctor told authorities that his pregnant wife, Colette, and +his daughters, Kimberly, five, and Kristen, two, had been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017283.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017283.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b927c89dd815d4b041b818f38582f9ee9e0c0133 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017283.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +By the time the victims' bodies were exhumed, a woman named Helena Stoeckley had told police +and others that she and three friends had been in the MacDonald house on the night of the +murders and that her friends had committed the crimes. Though Stoeckley's word alone may not +have been worth very much-she was known to be a drug addict— she provided some details, +which tended to corroborate her story and the story Jeffrey MacDonald had told the police. The prosecution could... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017284.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017284.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..240ba698f46798829d37e94b94347b04ed601697 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017284.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +For example, Helena Stockley testified to the jury that she could not remember where she had +been on the night of the murders. Since testimony about Stockley's prior ad-missions +would technically constitute "hearsay" - - that is, testimony by one witness about what another +witness had said outside the courtroom - - the judge ruled that the jury could hear about +Stoeckley's hearsay admissions only if [corroborating evidence showed] that they [were] +'trustworthy.'" +The judge who... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017285.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017285.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6339b009f92afb05279542e4ef1ff4549d0d22f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017285.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +These dramatic revelations finally came to light because of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald's search for +evidence of his own innocence, which he has protested since the beginning of his case. Over +many years, he and his lawyers filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking +access to the government documents on the case the documents that contained the facts that +were not revealed during the trial. It is a story that raises the following disturbing questions; +Why would the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017286.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017286.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8482873a32f3b84318b50d15be2008ce2910fa40 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017286.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The second problem is that current law makes it nearly impossible to reopen a closed case on a +second or third writ of habeus corpus. The "great writ" has been severely restricted by Congress, +and even compelling evidence of innocence does not guarantee a new trial. Such new evidence has now been found, and the Court of Appeals recently ordered the district +court to consider all the new "evidence as a whole." So the case is far from over. I continue to +confer on the case with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017287.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017287.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..849ce7901114a3f8e0e59e7fab2c70068dcc9030 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017287.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The science of eliciting false confessions: the case of Jonathan Doody +Another murder case that never seems to end involves a man named Jonathan Doody, the son of a +Thai mother and an American soldier, who was accused of the mass murder of nine Buddhist +Monks and nuns in Arizona back in 1991. Originally, a motorcycle +gang was suspected of the crime. Doody, who was 1 at the time, was then arrested and subjected to a similarly pressured 12 hour +interrogation. The police began by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017288.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017288.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3ac8a01c977c5451fdc60e02d6fb9fd7be4d5b95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017288.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Again the state sought review by the Supreme Court. This time their petition was +denied, and Doody's conviction was finally and definitively reversed. Bail has +been set at Smillion, which his, of course, impossible for the Doody family, which has no money, +to raise. If justice delayed is justice denied, then Jonathan Doody has surely been denied justice. The +thorough decisions of the United States Court of Appeals have all been in his favor, but he +remains in jail for a crime of which he is now... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017289.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017289.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..631751dbd43d80ca094f6422159419bbb8936259 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017289.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Make believe murder: the case of the falling helicopter +Another case that we won on the basis of science grew out of the making a major motion picture +directed by Steven Spielberg and John Landis. The film was The Twilight Zone, based on the +television series by that name. John Landis, already famous for directing Animal House, +and other mega-hits, +was directing a segment involving the Vietnam War. The star of that segment was the veteran +actor Vic Morrow. The scene at issue... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017290.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017290.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..924a430899f402779eebf6f03a3384067bd9dc33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017290.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Attempted Murders: Killing a Corpse and the "Abraham Defense" +A case that involved both science and logic arose in the context of the attempted murder +prosecution of a young man who had shot a corpse, believing that it was still alive. The case +presented a series of perplexing scientific and logical riddles: When is a person who has been +mortally wounded actually dead? Can you kill a man who is already dead? On the first appeal, which I argued in Brooklyn, the court reversed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017291.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017291.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e178fdda25357628db4d78b0dc2732e20284d0c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017291.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Anatoly Sharansky: Death For Spying For the United States +Other potential death cases raised issues not of science, but of politics, diplomacy and economics. His name (at the time) was Anatoly Sharansky (now Natan Sharansky). Sharansky was a prominent and vocal defender of human rights, not only of his fellow Soviet +Jews but of all victims of Soviet oppression. He worked closely with Andrei Saklarov, the father +of the Soviet nuclear weapons program who had become the leading... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017292.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017292.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c243a6c541ddfde55358da01e8468e99db01157e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017292.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If the world +got to know Anatoly as a human being, rather than merely as another prisoner of conscience, it +would become more costly, in terms of international reactions, to the Soviet Union if he were to +die in the Gulag. We enlisted his very beautiful, very +photogenic, but very shy wife (Natasha, now Avital) in our campaign. Ultimately, after 9 years of unremitting efforts, we were able to arrange a prisoner exchange that +resulted in the release of an East German spy, who I had been asked to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017293.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017293.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa9308a847ad872d449e4f212d23f365c7dd9097 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017293.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My most ungrateful homicide client: Angela Davis +Clients whose cases I have helped to win generally respond in one of two ways: some express +great, sometimes excessive, gratitude. Others behave as if the case had never happened and you don't exist. During the year that I was a visiting scholar at the Center For Advanced Studies and Behavioral +Science at Stanford, I was asked to consult on several aspects of the Angela Davis murder case. Davis, who was one of the leaders of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017294.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017294.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fe501c2f31d600859bb0a9188f3df1a9032daa4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017294.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +of Cuban dissidents, Chinese dissidents or other heroic people who stand up against what remains +of Communist oppression. Angela Davis remains the best proof that in America, as distinguished from the countries she so +admires, it is possible for a Black, Communist woman to receive a fair trial. The key, of course, is +for the trial to have the kind of high visibility and media attention hers received. There are still far +too many obscure defendants, of all races, who do not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017295.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017295.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..148e8c21d4ba42c659aa2bdce8d396432f3eec0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017295.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Hare Krishna Murder +The most bizarre murder case I ever litigated involved a Hare Krishna leader in West Virginia, +who was charged with a wide assortment of crimes, ranging from murder-to copyright +infringement! My clients real name was Keith Gordon Ham, but he called himself Kirtanananda Swami, or just +Swami, when he founded a Hare Krishna community in West Virginia, which he called New +Vrindaban. The events that precipitated the murder prosecution were described by the court... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017296.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017296.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5aba271473f0cfa9c938d7be08fe79486081799 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017296.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +To a West Virginia jury back then, this could be massively prejudicial. Finally, they introduced: +"a videotape segment from the television program West 57th Street (a "news" exposé +program). The videotape showed a child of the New Vrindaban community stating that he +prayed "to" Swami, a statement generally offensive to the religious sensitivities of typical +jurors. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit consisting +of three elderly conservative judges in Charleston, South Carolina. But my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017297.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017297.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8579ef4e1abb93bb9e550163bf3581e259c02c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017297.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The Case I still can't talk about: Chappaquiddick +There is one homicide case that I still can't say very much about, even though all the principles +are dead and the case is more than 40 years old. I was one of the lawyers involved in the +Chappaquiddick case the investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy for driving his car off a +bridge on the Island (or peninsula of) Chappaquiddick, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo +Kopechne. +1969 was an eventful summer. My family and I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017298.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017298.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17f9878696910a471121e9740cab2484ebfcd4d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017298.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Defending Soldiers +I have a policy of representing, without fee, soldiers who risk their lives for our liberties and are +charged with killings growing out of their military service. I have helped to defend several +soldiers, most prominently Colonel Michael Steele, the real life hero of the tragic events in +Mogadishu that gave rise to the film "Blackhawk Down." I have also helped to defend ordinary +enlisted men accused of unlawful killings of non-combatants. Several of Colonel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017299.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017299.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34f11056c75f1b2e15509654e43cb568f24780ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017299.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In 1999, I received a letter of thanks from the head of that shadowy +organization, which included the following: +"I remember the energy you showed when we came to you seeking both advice and +action. You threw yourself into the fray and showed every possible willingness to give us +both your time and renowned counsel. As you know, there is no greater "Mitzva" in Judaism than "Pidyon Shevuyim" —prisoner +release. And nevertheless, not every person would be prepared to be associated with "one +of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017300.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017300.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43c95023e08d886e8974edcdf06ded4e2ca76d63 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017300.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Unlike many current defense lawyers, I never served as a prosecutor +(though I advise my students who want to become defense attorneys to work in a good +prosecutor's office for a few years.) Also unlike some defense attorneys, I admire good +prosecutors, who do their jobs ethically and professionally. The case of John Connolly was an example of both. The prosecutor who asked for my help is the +State Attorney of Dade County Florida, which covers the City of Miami and several smaller cities.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017301.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017301.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01e8ce44ca83d1c6319d9de357e7bd42fd3cf4f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017301.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +successfully prosecuted for it by the State Attorney's Office. The problem was that several years +had passed between the murder and the prosecution and Connolly had a plausible statute of +limitations argument on appeal. I was asked by State Attorney Rundle to consult with her appellate lawyers and to prepare them +for what they expected would be a grueling oral argument. The "moot court," +as it turned out, was more grueling than the actual argument, and the prosecution won the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017302.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017302.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54a90c3f0525596496cbc1ee0820dfb097b224cf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017302.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Defending a man who admitted his guilt +The myth that guilty clients, even those who have committed murder will confide their guilt to +their trusted lawyer, is widespread in literature and reflected in legal rules that encourage a +relationship of trust between lawyer and client. In order to get some sense of +what actually happened, I ask them the following question: +"If your worst enemy, the person behind this horrible injustice, were to testify against you, +what lies would he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017303.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017303.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9c2cfdafe944cdbb125c0c9c1dc4107ee22db4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017303.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In the end, I was able to capitalize on Siegel's status as an informer, the fact that he was first +discovered by the use of an unlawful wiretap, and the promises that were made to him in order to +secure his cooperation. We obtained a legal ruling from the United States Court of Appeals that +ordered the trial judge to set all the defendants free. The judge turned to them in anger and said, +"Do you know who isn't in court today? Iris Kones." As my thoughts turned to the innocent +victim of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017304.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017304.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2cbe7b4d529ae33cf38585c30830ef02d766882 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017304.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The killing of John Lennon +Another death for which I have long felt some responsibility was the murder of John Lennon by +Mark Chapman in 1980. Lennon was in the United States on that fateful day because I helped +him avoid deportation back to England in 197 Had our legal team not been successful in +stopping the Nixon Administration's efforts to deport Lennon on trumped up allegations relating +to his use of marijuana in England, Lennon would have been deported and banned from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017305.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017305.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..388e2b68089aefc64153b8a2f53b91b3638442c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017305.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Dealing with the family of homicide victims— then experiencing it +Whenever I defend an accused killer, I'm asked how it feels to be up against the family of the +victim. In one case I was confronted +directly by the mother of the victim, who thrust a photograph of her murdered son in my face. My client was a woman who had admittedly shot and killed her husband. I argued the appeal in the Maryland Court of Appeals. "The man she murdered was my son," she politely continued, "and I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017306.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017306.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33a2463024a4897259b027aca0a3311579fa2afc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017306.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. In July of 2011, my own family learned what it felt like to become the victim of a possible +homicide. My brother's beloved wife, Marilyn, was killed while riding her bicycle on a New York +City street. Marilyn was a brilliant lawyer who had just retired from being a judicial referee in the +New York Matrimonial Court. Because New York City, like many large urban areas, has security cameras on nearly every block, +my nephew (who is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017307.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017307.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76baed2372bc9993bca872c7d740b9242562a7de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017307.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Defending the Former President of the Ukraine Against Murder Charges +In T.S. Eliot's famous play Murder In The Cathedral-which is loosely based on historical +events-King Henry Il is anxious to be rid of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Unwilling to bloody his own hands, the King hints of his wishes to several loyal knights by issuing +a rhetorical challenge: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" The knights, believing they +are following the King's command,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017308.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017308.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54bb6306c94b5a5cc152df80ccf4095b3901ed00 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017308.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +which begins: +"No monument stands over Babi Yar +A steep cliff only, like the rudist headstone +I am afraid." +Now there is a monument, but it is unworthy of that term, and it is not as if the city of Kiev +doesn't know how to build giant monuments, if it chooses to. In the center of Kiev stands a +monumental statue to Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who had conducted pogroms in the 17h Century that +had slaughtered tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews. To this day, Khmelnitsky's picture... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017309.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017309.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b87a617a0af761fc93dc7a79cc6dd15db7a2693d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017309.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +We also established that the recording device and the recording had been repeatedly removed +from the chain of custody, thereby enabling the tampering to be accomplished. Finally, we proved +that under Ukrainian law, the recordings had been made and handled unlawfully. The end result +was that the court ruled that the recordings could not be used against President Kuchma in any +criminal case and the prosecution was dropped +222 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017309 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017310.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017310.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e4be9394d1fee9cfba0fb74e3a9c0e933450cbb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017310.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Murder Cases I Didn't Take +For every client whose case I agree to take, I must, regretfully, turn down many. I rarely turn down cases in which defendants face the +prospect of the death penalty by an American court, and when I do, I try to get another lawyer, +often a former student, to take the case. (The same is true for cases involving freedom of speech +or other First Amendment protections.) +I never turn down a homicide case because it is too hard or because I am too unlikely... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017311.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017311.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c7e469aa42a2855fafc36ffb07f4660c9883a73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017311.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +These include +professional criminals who are in the business of doing illegal things and will almost certainly go +back to that business if I get them off: drug dealers, Mafioso, terrorists, gang leaders. These +professional criminals are entitled to counsel, but I do not want to become a "consiglieri" to a +crime family (remember Tom Hagen in the Godfather) or an advisor to those who are in the +business of committing crimes. Among the most interesting cases I declined have been accusations of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017312.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017312.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ccf5d68e2cda2b811d7f6d3f34421bf0db63020 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017312.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Eight days before Rabin was killed, Israel's Ambassador to the United States had asked me to +meet with Prime Minister Rabin, when he was scheduled to speak in Boston later that month. I +asked the Ambassador what the subject of the meeting would be, and he told me that the Prime +Minister was deeply concerned about the increasingly virulent level of rhetoric in Israel and the +fact that certain fringe religious and political figures were advocating violence against government +officials. Rabin was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017313.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017313.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3e811664d7cb6ff3895a8c798bcf78579313869 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017313.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +lawyers, the other two to be selected by the Arab League. I doubted that the Arab League would +agree to have me participate in such a team, but he assured me that he would try to obtain their +consent. In G-d +we trust." In the end, I couldn't agree to what they wanted me to do, and the issue became moot +with the fall of the Gaddafi government and the assassination of Gaddafi. I was later asked +whether I would consider representing his son in the International Criminal Court,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017314.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017314.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..635b4c20c52f55d61beb9d324f3fc7bcf19d6dc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017314.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Conclusion: How homicide cases have changed over the past half century +There are two clearly discernable trends in regard to homicide cases—and they point in totally +opposite directions. Over the past several decades, an increasingly conservative Supreme Court, and a Congress that +couldn't care less about wrongly accused defendants, have shut the courtroom door to new +evidence, including new scientific evidence. The idea that a process resulting in the +conviction of an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017315.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017315.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73223fe8541d5ac446e21759423243d081b9ed6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017315.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Scalia's anachronistic views are appointed to the court. 4 +This is not to suggest that plainly innocent people are being routinely executed in the United +States. There are other checks and balances, such as gubernatorial commutation. (Though in +some states they are rarely, if ever, granted.) Moreover, the courts, even the Supreme Court, +sometimes find other ways to free the obviously innocent in most cases. These include Helena Stoeckley and her boyfriend, who may have been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017316.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017316.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1626b2fc9e1ffaeccf910dbe3e2bcb14db643ad2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017316.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In the MacDonald case, justice delayed by the courts may actually result in justice being denied to +an innocent man. Nor is MacDonald alone in having the courthouse door shut on new scientific evidence that could +acquit the innocent and convict the guilty. It is even possible that several innocent people may +have been executed because the courts have refused to consider the scientific evidence that could +have proved that others committed the murders. One such case came to my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017317.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017317.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8b38e89913b7ac555d436706cc9e58282dd4ea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017317.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 14: The changing politics of rape: From "no" means "maybe," to "maybe" means "no." +No legal concept has undergone a more dramatic change over the course of my legal career than +the crime of rape. The testimony of the alleged victim had to be corroborated by external +evidence, unlike other crimes where the testimony of the victim is sufficient. The alleged victim +could be cross-examined about her entire sexual history, thus discouraging rape victims from +coming forward.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017318.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017318.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd096d6f3feb3f0789a5e8b73f330dc122fa22a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017318.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Even as recently as the early 20 Century, the influential legal commentator, John Wigmore, +proposed that women who accuse men of rape should be subjected to a psychiatric examination +because: +"Modern psychiatrists have amply studied the behavior of errant young girls and women +coming before the court in all sorts of cases. Their psychic complexes are multifarious, +distorted partly by inherent defects, partly by diseased derangements, partly by bad social +environment, partly by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017319.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017319.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..624e39f74c1fcfe6c5e0d399f5953499f1aa13b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017319.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This led one of my colleagues to quip +that "some feminists regard rape as so heinous a crime that even innocence should not be +recognized as a defense." +Mostly the changes in the laws governing rape prosecutions were for the better: Many more +guilty rapists were successfully prosecuted and the number of rapes went down perceptibly." But +these radical changes were not cost free: more innocent defendants, or those against whom the +evidence was doubtful, were also convicted. When it comes to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017320.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017320.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb8fff1a35d795d4cbc34ca6f7ff0e7c234a4cbb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017320.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Was Mike Tyson the victim of the changing politics of rape? The first time I met Mike Tyson was the night before he was to be sentenced and sent to prison. Mike was deciding whether to accept Don King's recommendation that he hire me as his appellate +lawyer. He was in a hotel room in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his large entourage. Now, man to man, what do you think of me?" I looked him straight in the eye and +said: "If you're innocent, you're a real schmuck." He looked back... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017321.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017321.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a12180fb7b8760a05de6c926f60525ee3a4d8459 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017321.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I assembled a superb team, which included my brother Nathan, my son Jamin, who had just +completed a two year stint with the New York Legal Aid Society following his graduation from +Yale Law School and a clerkship with the Chief Judge of the Federal District Court in +Massachusetts. It also included my co-clerk for Justice Goldberg, who was a leading Indiana +lawyer. On the basis of our investigation and the new evidence we uncovered, I was convinced that Mike +Tyson did not intend to rape Desiree... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017322.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017322.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03bf113d4f880ac7c14fd4742f7458e5d7751df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017322.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As a waitress in Washington's hometown put it: +"America thought this girl was a blushing, virginal type." (Under the rape shield law, Tyson's +lawyer could not counter this portrayal. The prosecution thus used the rape shield law as a sword +to present a one-sidedly false picture of the alleged victim.) +The prosecutor also argued to the jurors a variation on the "dressed-for-sex" theory, telling them +that Washington went to meet Tyson wearing "little pink polka dot panties," rather... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017323.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017323.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8369c182006fc9c03919a14c3c36eb7c7e85a68f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017323.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He arranged for the Washington family to take the courtroom pass away from their lawyer, +so that he could not attend the trial and feel ethically compelled to stand up and correct the +Washingtons' testimony when they falsely denied any contingency fee or written agreement with +him. (The prosecutor also had an ethical obligation to correct the false testimony given by his +witness. So the lawyer went to the Rhode Island Disciplinary Counsel — the attorney in charge of +enforcing the ethical rules... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017324.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017324.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..afa74544807c2406cd902415bb7b1622622c1a85 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017324.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Of course, the fact that they were necking and holding hands doesn't preclude the possibility that +Desiree may have said no when it came to intercourse. But the testimony of these +eyewitnesses shows three important facts: the first is that Washington was lying when she denied +necking with Tyson; the second is that Tyson was telling the truth when he testified that they were +necking; and third, that just moments before the hotel door closed behind them, Washington was +involved... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017325.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017325.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c813d1e8f2398112a71f83460fa6a2e989e5411e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017325.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In light of Judge Gifford's attitudes and professional background in regard to rape, it might be +wondered how the prosecution got so lucky as to have her as the judge in the Tyson case. Using Indianapolis law and practice, the prosecutor was +able to pick the judge who will try a criminal case. Articles in The American Lawyer and the New York Law Journal-reached the +same conclusion, as did most of the lawyers and law professors with whom I conferred. Despite the strong issues... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017326.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017326.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9441c2f45e49a00b01261de3e4771cc291e1cf24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017326.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Instead, she willingly came out of the bathroom, passed a door leading to the outside corridor and +went back to Tyson's bedroom, where they had sex on the bed. According to Washington's own testimony, Tyson asked her, during their sexual encounter, +whether she wanted to "get on top" and she responded "yeah," and proceeded to get on top-not +the usual position for a rape victim! Mike Tyson had every reason to believe that Desiree was just another groupie looking for sex +with a celebrity athlete.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017327.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017327.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac0d526d364168366a28f2fc40d504deec47f808 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017327.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Our investigation also uncovered that Desiree's father had a history of violence toward her. According to a news report, Desiree's mother had her father arrested and charged with assault +and battery against Desiree. "In her account," reported in the media, "Desiree alleged to the +police that her father 'hit me and pushed my head under the sink... I freed myself and reached for a knife to protect myself.'" A +sworn statement by the mother reportedly said that her husband "flew... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017328.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017328.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43ed0ac7c468a11eb703a62a274a26d3aac7cdb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017328.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Mike Tyson deserves a new +trial." +In light of the numerous errors made by Judge Gifford at the trial, this should have been the +easiest appeal I ever argued. As the legal expert who reported on the trial +and appeal for USA Today put it after watching the appellate argument: +"Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson had his best day in court Monday. As Tyson completed day 328 of his six-year prison term for rape, famed appellate lawyer +Alan Dershowitz vigorously attacked: Tyson's accuser,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017329.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017329.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ea0919dc74309122d1a409fdc8ba2d265825bd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017329.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +And they had a trial judge determined to prevent a new +trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed +on a two to two tie vote by the Indiana Supreme Court, with the chief justice disqualifying himself +from participation in the decision on a phony pretext. He sent his wife to speak to me during a +Yale Law School event. She said, "your New York style won't work in Indiana." I asked who +she was, and when she identified herself as the wife of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017330.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017330.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51ebb24f1ee11e5eaec3ecf7fc4664d050dd3e83 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017330.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Let me explain something: No means no. Here are some excerpts from the letters: +It's too bad that a punk like Tyson can afford to pay for the top legal representation...but +since you had the right to refuse to represent him, I fault you! If, through your +efforts, Mike Tyson is not held accountable for his behavior, then you do a disservice to +all women and we become victims of a pandemic legal system gone awry! He doesn't deserve the best—it's a shanda!! ("Shanda" is the Yiddish... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017331.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017331.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb1c8823e7fe1cc165d2ce7ceea036aae26dbac9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017331.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Unless they can, they will never be able to persuade the majority of Americans, including judges, +who favor the death penalty. Similarly, in the area of rape I present positions that students are reluctant to defend but which +many Americans believe. All in all, my classes on rape tend to be controversial and emotionally charged. The majority of +students seem to love the exchanges. But my "devil's advocate" views on rape are "politically incorrect." Indeed that is precisely why I +insist that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017332.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017332.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2afa9eadb1c42193cb0e70a337b07e7c139c5f06 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017332.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It takes no courage for me to +exercise my academic freedom, since I have tenure. But if I were an untenured assistant +professor, would I have the courage to risk the wrath of the P.C. cops? You bet they are, and it poses a real danger to +academic freedom and good education. One criminal law professor told me that he searches for +casebooks that don't cover rape: "If it's covered in the book and I skip it, I get criticized. This way I can blame it on the book." Talk about lack of courage! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017333.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017333.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc85d8d6cdba3c1709c11f8cd6c97eb2da016dd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017333.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +A Dedham, Massachusetts, woman accused four men of rape. The +names of the falsely accused men were published in the press, but the false accuser's name was +withheld +St. In both cases the +women gave police detailed descriptions of their attackers and in both case the alleged assailants +were black +A seventeen-year-old girl from Washington State accused three twenty-year-old men of holding +her down and raping her. In a statement to police, the woman admitted, "When I +was leaving... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017334.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017334.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7f7e8403628b610001c5f9c693b36cc76921f56 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017334.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The reality that rape is the most falsely reported of crimes must not blind us to the equally +important reality that rape is also the most underreported of crimes. Moreover, "acquaintance" or "date" rape is an area which differing perceptions may produce +inadvertently false testimony about actions that may well fall into the gray area between +aggressive seduction and criminal sexual assault. When it comes to sexual encounters, both men +and women often "remember" differently... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017335.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017335.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c2aa9e1d62c0b84015c9d5ae5456518421bfc9d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017335.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"The alleged victim in this case says she was forced by DSK to give him oral sex. His +defense counsel have argued in the press, and in their briefs and in their opining statements +that the oral sex was entirely consensual. In deciding which version is true and which false, I want you to accept the fact that the +alleged victim has told many lies in the past and can't be completely trusted. In other +words, if there were no other evidence or arguments beyond the uncorroborated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017336.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017336.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c53fc5ae495b66753c7c724b16b2b46caeeedd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017336.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +By any objective standard, the case against DSK was far stronger than the case against Mike +Tyson, since there was far more corroborative evidence in the former than in the latter. Moreover, Tyson's alleged victim was caught in a series of lies that directly related to her account +of the alleged rape and her motive for bringing the charge. Yet Tyson was convicted and the case against DSK was dropped. Male "Victims" Lie Too +Early in my career, I learned that men also lie, both as defendants and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017337.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017337.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a013db64d6fd590562d3ab68142e33a8d3989f32 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017337.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My colleague insisted that the young man had a moral obligation to his fiancé and a legal +obligation to the police to be truthful. At first, the young man refused, but my colleague, after conferring with me, told him he really had +no choice, because she would be obligated to report his continuing crime of making a false +report— a crime that endangered the life and liberty of anyone fitting the made-up description of +the black man with the shark's tooth. (The young man didn't... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017338.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017338.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ed48670a663c0befd88a817ba4e30df375f805c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017338.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Rape by cocaine? Is it possible for a man to rape a woman even if he uses no force, she offers no resistance and +appears to consent? Under the law, her consent must be freely given and not +the product of drugs, alcohol or other factors that may negate voluntary consent. This is a serious problem not only when "date rape drugs" are slipped into an unsuspecting +woman's drink, but when men deliberately get their dates drunk in order to lower their resistance. In the former... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017339.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017339.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f117a657207be235366e536372ab334ad0d4fda --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017339.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The accountant was prosecuted for rape. The case was essentially was essentially a "he +said"-she "suspected" contest, and there was some forensic evidence-the cocaine in her +urine—to corroborate her suspicions. But the value of the forensic evidence depended entirely on +whether she was telling truth about not having used cocaine prior to the alleged rape. We came up with the idea of testing her hair for traces of cocaine residue. Indeed, the location of the cocaine residue in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017340.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017340.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a80ba098b229f4f0d1967d255d5389f24efe89e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017340.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Too Young To Consent? Under the law, can a rape occur even when both parties consent and even when the alleged victim +is eager to engage in the sexual activity? This is so +because every state has a statutory age of consent, and anyone below that age (girl or boy) is +irrefutably deemed incapable of consenting even if she initiated the encounter and was sexually +experienced. The age of consent varies from state to state and from country to country. Under these "Romeo and Juliet"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017341.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017341.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..161ddf092bdca5c4d049427a445f59d8882610e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017341.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +We thought +the case was over, until we learned that the local police were not satisfied with this resolution and +were bringing the matter to the attention of the United States Attorney's Office, thus turning it +into a federal case. The federal statutes governing sexual contact with underage girls are draconian. Had my client +been convicted under them, he could have received a sentence of 25 years for each separate +massage. This could have resulted in life imprisonment. We probably could have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017342.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017342.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58a219aa59297ff8101664ec7dec45f76a0b0be1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017342.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Rashomon Rape Cases +In the great Japanese film, Rashomon, a horrible crime is presented through the very different +perspectives of several participants. In some rape cases, a similar Rashomon perspective is +sometimes at work. In the Mike Tyson case, for example, it is possible (though unlikely in my +view) that Desiree Washington did not intend to consent to sex but that Mike Tyson reasonably +believed —based on her "groupie-like" actions and statements— that she did. A mistake... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017343.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017343.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..850089dd0656dea40f225ebe224eab48d0098d0e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017343.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +There are clearly gray areas in which the man ought to resolve doubts in favor of not +acting and where the law ought to resolve doubts in favor of not convicting. One such case was a highly publicized +prosecution of three prominent doctors and a nurse at one of Boston's leading hospitals. One of the doctors had a party at his house for some of the hospital staff. As the party was ending, the three doctors invited the nurse to join them for a drive to +Rockport where one of the doctors had a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017344.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017344.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..319f3f10cc285d269eb149be4d865c0a068f323c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017344.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +To illustrate this, let's go back to the filming of the movie, +Deep Throat, discussed in an earlier chapter. Harry Reems had sex on camera with Linda Lovelace. But it now turns out, at least +according to a book she wrote, that her apparent consent wasn't real, that she was compelled to +pretend she was consenting by her husband's threats to kill her unless she went forward with her +starring role in the movie Deep Throat. Under the extreme view expressed by some radical +feminists and accepted by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017345.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017345.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e53352bd838272cfb440b12954f3465502277577 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017345.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The 99-pound rapist +The great violinist Itzhak Perlman called me one day and asked if I would look into a disturbing +case involving a young violinist he knew who attended college in the Boston area. The young +violinist-who was 5 feet tall and weighed 99 pounds, and whose only exercise was lifting a +bow—had been accused by a 5 foot 4, 140-pound lacrosse player of raping her. Itzhak did not +believe that the allegation could be true. The circumstances of the case certainly didn't... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017346.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017346.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f9735b30165de1b9d2be6e9bd135265eeb2283d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017346.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"Because victims of sexual crimes are likely to suffer a 'depth and range of emotion and +psychological disturbance…..not felt by the victims felt by most other crimes' we remind +lawyers and judges that the mere fact that such victims sought counseling may not be used +for impeachment purposes." +Notwithstanding this warning, it seems quite likely that at least some rape victims would decline +to press charges if they knew that their treatment records could be rummaged through by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017347.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017347.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dbd3d9541a9bf4c4f89be0526de9666bb0b2a044 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017347.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 15: The changing impact of the media on the law +Criminal trials involving life and death, such as the O.J. Simpson case, or rape, such as the Mike +Tyson cases, always generate massive media coverage, especially when famous people are in the +dock. Some civil trials, especially those with allegations of sexual misconduct, are also widely +covered. Based on these and other cases, I draw +conclusions about the nature of celebrity justice and the impact of the media on high... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017348.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017348.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41fc6ebae91c874e279b4fcd98e08f9fe36212ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017348.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I turn down most celebrity requests, and cases involving celebrity clients form a tiny +fraction of my practice over the years, but the few that I do take garner far more publicity than do +the many cases involving unknown clients. Is there anything special about famous clients— celebrities? Should "high profile" cases be +handled differently from less visible controversies? Most people see celebrities at a distance - on the screen, stage, television, athletic field, or +auditorium. They come to me... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017349.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017349.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5babbfe788d0e600ca44b3a0c062b234501b1e8a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017349.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +She also, according to the government, evaded sales taxes on expensive jewelry in New York +(which has a sales tax) by having the jeweler send empty boxes to Florida (which has no sales +tax). As a result, she may have saved several thousand dollars, but she spent more than a year in +prison, when she had only a few years left to live and even less time to spend with her dying +husband. By any rational calculus, this is crazy behavior. Mike Tyson, as the world's greatest boxer,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017350.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017350.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2635988d603e256c13618b04c8a2b23a1a00d824 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017350.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Old habits die hard, but they can also kill or at least wound those who +can't break the illegal ones. Indeed, +quite the opposite, it is to condemn it— because celebrities have few excuses for their +misconduct-while at the same time trying to explain why it persists among some celebrities. One of the most important jobs a lawyer who represents famous people +has is to figure out how to turn his or her celebrity into an advantage rather than a disadvantage, +or at the very least to neutralize it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017351.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017351.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e220051a8c3a3cb863e78d015b16daf591656ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017351.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The most frequent misconception about celebrities is that they must be "so fascinating." The +opposite is often the case. Most of my famous clients, with some important exceptions, have +been uninteresting. We tend to confuse their public persona +and surroundings, which fascinate us, with their private personalities, which are often banal, +mundane and self-centered. Their cases and controversies may be fascinating, in part because of who they are, in part because +of what they... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017352.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017352.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8987167aef8067e6ac0c3aba5d87399698cc669f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017352.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +President Bill Clinton +I first met President and Mrs. We shared many mutual friends and teachers from Yale Law School, but we +had never actually met before I invited the President and First Lady, who were vacationing on +Martha's Vineyard, to join my family at the M.V. synagogue for Rosh Hashanah services. When I +learned that the Clintons were living near us on the Vineyard, I had the following letter hand +delivered to the President by a mutual friend: +Dear Mr. President: +It is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017353.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017353.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..719ef3f4bf6696a0335a43a0cd4556bfa07f4a13 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017353.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +As I watched the president, "davening" in his yamulka, I thought of Jules Farber's quip: "The time +is at hand when the wearing of prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White +House—unless, of course, the man is Jewish!" +Following the service, the Clintons invited us to join them for dinner at the Savoir Faire +Restaurant in Edgartown. My +wife, Carolyn, my son Elon and I dined with the Clintons. We were later joined for dessert by +Vernon Jordan and his wife, Anne.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017354.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017354.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6dccdf3b8309d5f01509bcbaa1718dd732f25c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017354.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I concluded my article with the following words: +President Clinton's visit was entirely in keeping with President George Washington's letter +to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, in which he wrote that mere "toleration" is not +good enough in America. Here, Jews as well as others, must be treated as equals. The +attendance of our president and first lady at a Jewish service made many Jews feel like +first-class citizens, rather than tolerated guests. During the subsequent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017355.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017355.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..022a5f245b394d642dd39786f2710b72b7e6e6c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017355.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +She really did want oral +sex: she wanted to talk about it. The President +achieved immediate gratification while risking long term consequences to his marriage, his +daughter, his presidency and above all the nation's stability. At the time he began his sexual encounter with Lewinsky, Clinton knew that he might possibly +have to testify under oath about his sex life. Or, as Maureen Dowd put it: +"Mr. The result is more twisted than titillating."84 +This was surely not the first time Bill Clinton put... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017356.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017356.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1636bc53e9022b99e4936c18845d9146a44e544 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017356.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +then in place - the Jones lawsuit and the Kenneth Starr investigation. It is unlikely that Bill Clinton confided the truth of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky to any +of his lawyers. It is likely that his lawyers suspected the possibility that there was some truth to the rumors that +something untoward had occurred between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. After all, Clinton +did tell his lawyers - and did testify - that he engaged in adulterous sex with Gennifer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017357.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017357.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3347235afee1a852bfb2dbf7b65d42c26f5af360 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017357.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I think the President could win if it actually went to trial, but it +won't go to trial. What I would do if I were his lawyer is to say, +"Look, the dignity of the office precludes the [P]resident from +answering any of these questions. And now let's move on to +the damages, where the focus is not on the [P]resident but on Paula +Jones." And in that way, he can, in effect, settle the case, even if +the other side doesn't settle because the damages will be very low, +there won't be an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017358.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017358.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73962fbfd6d8fb86ee05a4d710cb4ca2c3e49394 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017358.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How do I know that Robert Bennett never told President Clinton of the default option? On January 17, 1997, President Clinton was deposed in the Paula Jones lawsuit and was asked +questions about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Among the questions were the following: +"Did you have an extramarital sexual affair with Monica +Lewinsky?" +"If she told someone that she had a sexual affair with you beginning +in November of 1995, would that be a lie?" +"I think I used the term "sexual affair." And... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017359.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017359.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b83cca00daeb89532088bfd71499927fe0d33984 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017359.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Is that a true and accurate statement" +The president responded: "That is absolutely true." +Shortly thereafter, reports began to appear of tape recorded conversations between Linda Tripp +and Monica Lewinsky suggesting that there had been a sexual relationship of some kind between +the President and Monica Lewinsky. On January 23, 1998 I appeared on the MSNBC program "Internight" and criticized Bennett for +allowing the President to walk into a perjury trap and a swearing contest.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017360.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017360.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9515c8ee8446339c99834d75695db0530d15a52 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017360.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +If Clinton was prepared to pay $700,000 to settle a suit he regarded as utterly +frivolous and untrue, no greater incentive would have been added if he defaulted and paid. The sad reality is that Robert Bennett, perhaps in his zeal to chalk up a high visibility win, failed +or neglected to tell the president that this was one case that was better for the client to lose and +avoid testifying rather than to win and risk testifying falsely. Defaulting the Jones case would have resulted in bad... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017361.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017361.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b8891da5fed5d755d2f1a47123fab28a8fad75ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017361.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In reaching this agreement, the President withdrew his constitutional +challenge to the power of a grand jury to compel his testimony. This was a serious constitutional +issue, especially since Starr had given Lewinsky total immunity from prosecution. This left +Clinton as the primary target of the grand jury. But there is grave doubt whether a sitting +President can be indicted or prosecuted. But the President decided to waive this challenge and to testify "voluntarily." What I don't know +is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017362.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017362.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4b59e14e1becca1e11ec6cfa0021555a0866f75 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017362.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +she sought to the court, the case would be dismissed, regardless of whether or not Paula Jones +agreed. I told the president that he +could have justified his decision to pay off the suit by explaining that the American presidency is +more than a full time job and that he had no time for depositions— the preparation for which are +extremely time consuming even if the Supreme Court justices (who work relatively short hours) +thought he did. The President looked surprised: "Nobody... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017363.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017363.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..437f2110ae62081f9b544382779271af3fa7a912 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017363.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The core concept of perjury grows out of the Ten Commandments, "bearing false +witness," a term that consisted in accusing another falsely of a crime. Less egregious, but still quite serious, is false testimony that +results in the conviction of a person who may be guilty, but whose rights were violated in +a manner that would preclude conviction if the police testified truthfully....The least +culpable genre of false testimony are those that deny embarrassing personal conduct of +marginal relevance... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017364.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017364.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..864799a8115571f14874fc6ccf0825e65c944c92 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017364.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Congressmen Hyde and Conyers replied: +REP. HYDE: I thank you, Professor Dershowitz. You haven't the slightest idea of the +agony that many of us go through over this question. +[Wle are concerned about the double standard. DERSHOWITZ: It means a great deal to me. DERSHOWITZ: It means a great deal to me. (Applause.) [When is the last time +this committee has expressed concern about the rights of criminal defendants -- (a chorus +of "regular order" from committee members)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017365.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017365.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e949d2e66ae7997508c2bac147eb5b7c6ec51de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017365.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Now, I don't leap from the Oval Office on a Saturday afternoon to Auschwitz, but there +are similarities when the rule of law doesn't obtain, or where you have one law for the +powerful and one for the nonaristocratic. He did not give me an opportunity to respond to his absurd invocation of Auschwitz. But I did +insist on responding when Congressman Barr contrasted me with the "real America" and how +"the real America views these matters." The following heated exchange then took... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017366.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017366.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f107a1c621782aef581b3a31cc4e3fcaaea49af3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017366.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +White House switchboard tried unsuccessfully to reach me. (The White House has an +unparalleled capacity to reach people. He was staying a couple of +miles away from our house, at the home of Dick Friedman in Edgartown. The Secret Service man at the end of the road +waved me through, telling me that the President was expecting me. But I was then stopped by +another Secret Service man, telling me that the rules required that they search under the hood, so +I would have to lift it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017367.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017367.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f0a43000a2f2774f9fd4b606aa99414fdbd0524 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017367.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +By far the greatest legal blunder of the 20h Century was committed by President Clinton's +lawyer in the Paula Jones case, Robert Bennett. The Paula Jones case should have been settled immediately after the +President's reelection in 1996. If Paula Jones' lawyers refused to settle the case, Bennett +could have advised the President simply to default - that is to pay the money and refuse to +contest the charges. Not content to +let the President answer the opposing lawyers'... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017368.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017368.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c1d7843e91c3c16f92a49e061d34225a8b60ada --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017368.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Several years later, I was +approached by Monica's mother at a Jewish event. Although I helped defend Clinton before Congress and in the court of public opinion, I was +critical of his sexual misconduct while in office. In my book Sexual McCarthyism, I argue: +"At bottom this is a story of how two men who are obsessed about forbidden +sex-Clinton about engaging in it and Starr about exposing it-managed to turn a tawdry +series of Oval Office sexual encounters into a constitutional crisis. Some... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017369.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017369.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae8157d3887a2f735a13f5025e5a570201beda6e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017369.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Woody Allen vs. Mia Farrow +In my article on the 10 greatest legal blunders of the 20" Century, I included on my list, the +decision by Woody Allen's lawyers to sue Mia Farrow for custody of several of her adopted +children as well as the one child they conceived together. I played an unusual role in that lawsuit, +in which both sides were focused heavily on the media: Woody was concerned that negative +coverage, particularly of allegations involving sexual improprieties with a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017370.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017370.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7144b8064ceeb5922425d2b7d08958008b6a6409 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017370.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +We then discussed "The Front" and I told him that my father knew Zero Mosel —the star of the +film-whose relative had a store on the lower east side near my father's. Several years later Woody and his then girlfriend, Mia Farrow, came to hear me speak in New +York about the Rosenberg trial. I had written a positive book review for The New York Times +about a book which had concluded that Julius Rosenberg had indeed been a Soviet spy. This is +how I began my review: +WERE Julius and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017371.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017371.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aef02b8714af296789b1ab5254a1247bed2ae688 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017371.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +true, Woody's actions would demonstrate extreme insensitivity to Mia Farrow's family. Here is +how the appellate court ultimately characterized Woody's behavior. Allen took the photographs of Ms. Previn [Soon Yil which were +discovered on the mantelpiece in his apartment by Ms. Allen in his trial testimony stated that he took the photos at Ms. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017372.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017372.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f43153ebb5671007130e50840d166487e5023fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017372.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In the middle of the meeting, we received notice that Woody's lawyers, the very ones we were +discreetly negotiating with, had publicly filed a lawsuit against Mia, and that Woody was about to +hold a press conference in which he was going to accuse Mia of making up stories about him. Woody Allen's suit was seeking custody of several of the children Mia had originally adopted, as +well as the one biological child they had conceived together. IT was an extraordinarily stupid +move... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017373.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017373.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..546d0d481c788d311ac3df4484de44558c3a5bdd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017373.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Q: And not as a result of Miss Farrow's lawyers. Allen had listened to Miss Farrow's lawyers, we would not be in +court today and the children's best interest would have been served. I was then asked about my efforts to have Woody call me or respond to my letter: +Q: +Now lastly, Mr. Dershowitz, did you ever instruct —prior to August 13, +did you ever instruct Miss Farrow to tell Mr. My recollection is that Miss Farrow called me and asked me if I +would speak to Woody Allen. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017374.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017374.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8beb695c2d8cf0fd5469344ad92be39cde43febe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017374.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The judge credited my testimony and ruled against Woody Allen in every respect, denying him not +only the custody of the children, but even the right to see his own biological son without severe +restrictions. As far as I know, Woody Allen never did see his biological son, who has grown into +quite an adult, having won a Rhodes Scholarship for his extraordinary work on human rights. To +this day, I doubt that Woody Allen knows how Robert Morvillo tried to use his case to settle a +score with me.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017375.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017375.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5949c7b7f0d7f59c8236f0393c79f65ce6e6a62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017375.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I responded, "If I wanted any of Mia's former husbands to put the fear of God in Woody Allen, +I'd pick Sinatra over you Mr. Previn." He laughed in agreement. I have maintained a good relationship with Mia. Woody Allen eventually married Soon-Yi, and +they have adopted children. Both the Clinton-Lewinsky impeachment and Woody Allen-Mia Farrow cases involved sordid +accusation of improper sexual conduct by famous and powerful men. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017376.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017376.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b4c131334f76ee20e131e51118d54627d0dabdb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017376.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Celebrities will almost always disappoint you. Most are boring, banal and self-centered. Clients whether civil or criminal, are increasingly brought to trial not only before a judge +in robes and a jury of peers, but also in the "court of public opinion," where every citizen +gets to "cast a vote" on the legal and moral aspects of the case. For some clients in the +public eye political figures, entertainers, business moguls, even ordinary citizens— the +"verdict" rendered by the court of public... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017377.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017377.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81cf5980d4094137ec45a67f61a7914283786f91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017377.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +PART IV: THE NEVERENDING QUEST FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE +Chapter 16: The Changing Face of Race: From Color Blindness to Race-Specific Remedies +When I was growing in the pre-Brown versus Board of Education era of legally mandated +segregation, the goal of all decent people is the same: color blindness. As Martin Luther King +was to put it so eloquently several years later: +"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a +nation where they will not be judged by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017378.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017378.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f77ec84702bb507984b2a4d0e60fa4b9cc33dd3e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017378.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I should have known better even back then, especially after I twice travelled to the Deep South +occasions during the turbulent years of the civil rights movement. My first trip was in the early +1960s as part of a student group that was trained at the Howard Law School to be "observers." +During that short visit I had little direct contact with local Black residents of the South. My second trip was by myself in the early summer of 1965, when the +Harvard Law School sent me to several historically... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017379.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017379.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3204d8cad0df83e36019a8b8a7e3c8f1421cccd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017379.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +court's most liberal member at the time, and a man who had grown up in Washington State, +wanted to decide the issue. Such a policy would not be limited to blacks, or Chicanos or Filipinos, or American +Indians, although undoubtedly groups such as these may in practice be the principal +beneficiaries of it. But a poor Appalachian white, or a second generation Chinese in San +Francisco, or some other American whose lineage is so diverse as to defy ethnic labels, +may demonstrate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017380.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017380.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad1ab5b44c79c1ee220488354221b333de444b96 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017380.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The State... may not proceed by racial classification to force strict population +equivalencies for every group in every occupation, overriding individual preferences. The +Equal Protection Clause commands the elimination of racial barriers, not their creation in +order to satisfy our theory as to how society ought to be organized. The purpose of the +University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers +for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017381.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017381.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a276422c011faff17f9215767c3a6e9c6f2c4411 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017381.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Jews had been subjected to "ceilings: no more than 7 to 8 percent. (When I started Yale Law +School in 1959, I noticed that the university's motto was written in Hebrew—the biblical words +"Urim V'Tomim." When I asked a friend who has graduated Yale College why Yale's motto was +in Hebrew, he replied: "It's a test—if you can read it, you can't go here!") But in a zero sum +game - which admissions surely are - floors can impose ceilings, especially if the Black +percentage is taken... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017382.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017382.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59ec8b85f5b425bbe64ec2f3d724d13d7c7809e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017382.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Far from being +abhorrent, invidious and irrelevant, racial and ethnic classifications would be officially +sanctioned and recognized in all walks of life; each professional or office holder would be +regarded, and would regard himself, as a representative of the group from whose quota he +comes; and individual aspiration would be limited by the proportionate size of the group +to which the individual belongs. We argued in favor of individualized preferences based on actual experiences: +If... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017383.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017383.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..32c4ae8eb2cc3a2d9cb807fdd6e8ba0fe0c2fe55 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017383.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The Supreme Court's decision in Bakke accepted our argument against the sort of racial quotas +employed by the medical school at issue, but it approved affirmative action programs, such as the +one used by Harvard College, that vested enormous discretion in the Admissions Committee. A +five person majority ruled that the type of admissions program used by Davis Medical School did +not pass constitutional muster, while the type used by Harvard College does. Justice Powell, +whose opinion contained... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017384.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017384.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d551eaa7a8e091a5a150c671f596cc6ae9aa42b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017384.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Harvard College description, as quoted in the Powell opinion, tells far from the whole story +of Harvard's quest for diversity. It fails to disclose the enormous efforts that Harvard Colleges +undertakes simultaneously to assure a certain kind of uniformity in its student body over time. Harvard (like many other Ivy League colleges) always has given great weight to +genealogy-whether the applicant's parents or other family members attended or taught at +Harvard. Since Harvard's past student and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017385.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017385.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08d1264faccf56d794c6ce43d2a38352b597cdcd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017385.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +more complex and troubling realities of the Harvard College program as it surely must operate in +practice. (I have no inside knowledge of how the Harvard College admissions process actually +works; my speculations derive from reading the newspapers and from having publicly debated +several Harvard officials on the Bakke issue.) +For example, Justice Powell was anything but clear about the degree to which an applicant's race +may be considered in university admissions decisions. He... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017386.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017386.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25f1fdd5124d7e61b01e97e24d894b8dc8db411a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017386.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The issues raised by the Delphic decision in Bakke continue to challenge the courts and the +constitution. As I write these words, the Supreme Court has agreed to review yet another +affirmative action program. The issues may be similar to that raised in Bakke and subsequent +cases, but the personnel on the court has changed. First and foremost, it has helped produce a new +generation of remarkable Black leaders, many of whom were my students and remain my friends +and colleagues.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017387.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017387.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71c6c3afab4d3c67a0c3869335024251e4d61a0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017387.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 17 The crumbling wall between church and state: from separation to christianization +The "equal protection clause" of our Constitution is not the sole mechanism for security equality. My first memory of being aware of the separation of church and state goes back to the 1950s, +when the words "under God" were being added to the pledge of allegiance. The Yeshivas I went +to as a kid were very patriotic. Is there only one God that all American can pledge allegiance to or are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017388.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017388.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98c6ade77570d481ae42b65775c53b6855e720b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017388.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In our Yeshiva we learned +mostly about the First Amendment's protection of freedom of religion. But I started to read a +little more about the Constitution and quickly learned that there were three references to religion +in that great document of liberty. The first, in the body of the original Constitution, declared that +"no religious test shall ever be required" for holding office under the United States. And why is there only +one "Jewish seat" on the Supreme Court? I also discovered that the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017389.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017389.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d41c9d3053265993212da49b4cc5624010bced24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017389.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Elon suffered no adverse consequences from his religious dissent, but the same cannot be said for +Susan Shapiro, a 17 year old high school senior in the Boston area. She was called names by fellow students and told to "go back to Israel." (She was born +in America). The case involved television +evangelist Jim Bakker, who was married to the equally famous Tammy Faye Bakker. I was +retained to argue his sentencing appeal, following his conviction for defrauding PTL ("Praise the +Lord" and "People... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017390.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017390.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a8e5dc5795383c0c25cc02192d9bec72eba75ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017390.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This is how a New York Times journalist characterized the oral argument: +Last June, barely a week before their brief was due, the Houston lawyers handling Mr. Bakker's appeal, Don Ervin and Brian Wice, learned that Mr. Bakker's appeal, concerning the 45- +year sentence meted out by Judge Robert D. Dershowitz insisted he would +remain in the background +But that, it turned out, was a bit like George Steinbrenner's saying "Yogi Berra is my +manager for the rest of the year." In October, when the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017391.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017391.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8edce71f8768b8e38cc2629e55e3a15f10d0fdba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017391.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +That was the last day the Texas +firm worked as part of our legal team. The Court of Appeals ruled +that the conviction was valid but the 45 year sentence was not. This is what they said about the role of religion in +sentencing: +Courts have held that sentences imposed on the basis of impermissible considerations, +such as a defendant's race or national origin, violate due process. [Wle believe that similar +principles apply when a judge impermissibly takes his own religious characteristics... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017392.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017392.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed18b5166b16e92b276543289975258581c1e807 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017392.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +But she said she went right +out to watch "Reversal of Fortune" and added, "Every time he's on, I run to the +television." +"One of my biggest desires now is to meet him," she went on. Several weeks later, I received a gift in the mail from Tammy Faye. It was a Passover +Haggadah-the prayer book that is read at the Seder. At +our ecumenical Seder, which usually includes several dozen guests of all religions-we once +invited Anwar Sadat's daughter-we distribute the different Haggadahs among the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017393.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017393.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..945de5a929cb0ae3a0eeb84645ecd525dcf4ccd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017393.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Roger Williams, who is credited +with coining the metaphor, was a 17h Century Baptist minister in Providence, Rhode Island. And +this wall has worked wonderfully to do both." +Churches are thriving in America, unlike in most European countries that have long traditions of +established churches. Consider Israel, whose citizens are far more secular on average +than Americans. Many Israeli Jews resent religion because the Rabbis have too much influence +over marriage, divorce and other aspects of daily... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017394.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017394.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15cf452be0210882a09eff45a4c46387fa098b0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017394.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"May it [the Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to +some parts sooner, to other later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the +chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind +themselves, and to assume the blessing and security of self-government. Jefferson, who himself believed in the God of Deism— that is a non-Biblical, not Judeo Christian +diety—saw the Declaration as freeing Americans... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017395.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017395.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d46f72bb596985ca12a61435ce50720c8e966ccb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017395.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Despite the crass partisan political objective of the undertaking and its utter incompatibility with +the Constitution O'Connor had sworn to uphold, she agreed to help, writing the following letter +for publication: +"You wrote me recently to inquire about any holdings of this Court to the effect that this +is a Christian nation. There are statements to such effect in the following opinions: +Church of the Holy Trinity vs. First of +all, if this were a "Christian" nation, its form... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017396.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017396.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ce64be7a446e262da132ae9df45ae7156bfbb33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017396.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +But that simply isn't true, since the request to +Justice O'Connor-stating that it would be "beneficial" to have a letter from her as part of a +Republican proposal to enact a Christian Nation resolution-made it clear that she was being +asked to write her letter specifically for use in a political campaign. When I got wind of Justice O'Connor's letter, I wrote a scathing op ed for the New York Times +criticizing her judicial ethics as well as her miscitation of the law. Justice O'Connor recently... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017397.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017397.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..502a6d362e671f75f5cdea06cd51cbf97c6b29f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017397.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Justice O'Connor was not, of course, the first (or the last) public office to use Christianity in the +of partisan politics. The issue got so bad during the 1984 presidential race that Walter Mondale +found it necessary to remind Ronald Reagan that in the United States the president, unlike the +queen of England, is "not the defender of the faith" but rather the "defender of the Constitution." +In 2012, A Republican candidate for President, Rick Santorum, said that the concept of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017398.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017398.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f614c83422956fa1cdc6941ea263e2bccedfa831 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017398.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Since my youth, the movement toward full equality for gays has made great strides, despite +continuing religious objection from some church groups and some Orthodox Jews. The fact that +many churches, as well as conservative and reform Judaism, support equality has muted the +impact of the religious right somewhat on this issue. In 2003, during the beginning of the presidential election season, the Supreme Judicial Court of +Massachusetts rendered the first-in-the-nation decision... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017399.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017399.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b623f4a172514ec1adc3739c8dee5373164dea7d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017399.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson would surely have approved. Throughout the United States, couples have +the option of being married civilly by going to town halls or to a justice of the peace and simply +signing a marriage certificate. So most Americans already have the choice +between a sacrament and a secular agreement ratified by the state. Though some traditionalists would be certain to balk at an explicit division between marriage and +civil union, a majority of Americans already agree... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017400.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017400.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b0d0aef8c61d257862846c0b6d961f03ae745cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017400.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +matter of Constitutional law. Politically I have always supported a women's right to choose +abortion, since I do not regard an early term fetus as a human being for purposes of the abortion +debate. Most legal systems establish exit from the +birth canal as the moment of humanity but a 9 month old fetus in the womb is biologically +indistinguishable from a fetus that has just exited the womb. (Indeed when kangaroos exit from +the womb, it is only a temporary condition and the joey... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017401.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017401.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e76b39cc3e66fa19f4ae2199ec74a391fa8322fb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017401.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +States because the channels of democracy had been blocked by malapportioned legislatures and +other perversions of the democratic process. Over a period of years, the Supreme Court placed +its moral imprimatur on desegregation and eventually unblocked these channels of democracy. It +worked - not perfectly, but perfection is rarely possible in a heterogeneous and divided +democracy. The Supreme Court's decision, now more half a century old, changed few +minds on this issue, because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017402.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017402.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..538846c98cf4dcbd318bf1b3ff846d4b4d297dc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017402.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Reproductive Freedom Project to advance a broad spectrum of reproductive +rights. Wade helped secure the Presidency for Ronald Reagan, by giving him a "free" issue. It +was free because he - and other "pro-life" Republicans - could strongly oppose all abortion +without alienating moderate Republican women and men who favored a woman's right to choose +but felt secure in the knowledge that the Supreme Court would continue to protect that right, +regardless of what Reagan and others... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017403.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017403.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e0a7380f4637e021a27a6027827931862dcc547d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017403.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +importantly, it requires a collective decision by public officials of all political stripes to agree to +stop running as defenders of the faith and to end the contest over who is more religious or +committed to "faith." Religion and faith, as Jefferson recognized, are private matters and no one +should be judged based on their "religious opinions, any more than [their] opinions in physics or +geometry." With this in mind, let me end this chapter with my own "Ten Commendments"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017404.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017404.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d608e6aeba0e099d579798919dbf455c65a20e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017404.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 18: From Human Right to Human Wrongs: How the hard left hijacked the Human +Rights Agenda +The United States Constitution guarantees equality under American law, but the vast majority of +the world's population has no such legal protection. Our heroes were Eleanor Roosevelt, Rene +Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal +Declaration of Human Rights. I vividly recall watching the U.N. vote with my +father on a small black and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017405.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017405.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4886fd390e7d2a392ffab0d1a96bb234a622a9b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017405.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +disrupt the 7 day Sabbatical cycle."9s +The Orthodox Jewish community was in an uproar about this well intentioned proposal, because it +would change the natural order of when the Jewish Sabbath fell. Jews (and Seventh Day Adventists) had fought +hard to recognize Saturday as a day off from most jobs and school activities. At the time I was president of the "Inter- Yeshiva High School Council" —a group I had formed +after the principle of my high school banned me from running for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017406.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017406.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb29608c54c72b752335179c2784fd9c361555cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017406.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Of the 328 pieces of mail addressed to Lodge during the first week in April, 209 expressed +opposition to world calendar reform on religious grounds. These were the result of a +postcard campaign instituted by the Inter-Yeshiva HS Council. The article went on to point out that Lodge had also received letters from the Oklahoma students +who favored the proposal, as did some legislators. The U.S. informed Secretary General Hammarskjold that it did not +favor any action by the UN to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017407.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017407.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..22c208dadebafe31866ed8ab5856bd75c0bfea8e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017407.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Being a member of the "Human Rights Club" does not require abstaining from advocacy for one's +own group (however defined). The "motto" +for the club might well be the famous dictum of Hillel: "If I am not for myself, who will be for +me, but if I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?" I have tried hard to live by +these words-which hang on the wall in my office and to maintain my membership in the +Human Rights Club, although my priorities have changed with shifting threats to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017408.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017408.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83052b4b21d910f0414f64e61210c6ce8ebb2622 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017408.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The Vietnam War +During the height of the conflict over the Vietnam War, I represented numerous defendants, +protestors and civil disobedients. The faculty of Harvard Law School was +divided over the morality, legality and effectiveness of the war, and there were interesting +discussions in the faculty lunch room involving such luminaries as Archibald Cox, Erwin +Griswold, Abram Chayes and Paul Freund. I decided that these discussions should be shared with +our students, and so I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017409.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017409.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..807b00c7741ac6b33d73f4fc41f37c4606377130 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017409.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The objective of the course, Professor Dershowitz said, would be "to assess the role of the +lawyer, as professional and citizen, in both the domestic and foreign aspects of the +conflict." He said the course would explore "the relevance of law to this country's +involvement in Vietnam."96 +Time Magazine began its story this way: +"Viet Nam is the most significant social, political and legal issue of the day," said Harvard +Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last week. "And a law school should be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017410.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017410.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9ff739b2a96040e9dc58d81e919868fcb79705f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017410.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I prefer to think of myself +as an advocate for human rights..." Dershowitz's definition of human rights is +uncomplicated. Wherever human rights are trampled, Dershowitz feels compelled to lend a hand, if +possible. "I try hard to balance my attack, right and left-for every attack on the Soviet +Union, there's one on Chile. For every attack on a right-wing repressive government, +there should be an attack on a left-wing repressive government." +Dershowitz's strong personal identification with human... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017411.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017411.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..28e11f490414fd1d13c48f9c678b1b04b5305498 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017411.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I had become involved in the defense of Soviet dissidents after reading Elie Wiesel's eye-opening +book "The Jews of Silence," which first alerted me to the plight of Soviet Jewish and non-Jewish +dissidents. I traveled to the Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe on several occasions +during the 1970s and 1980s and filed briefs on behalf of dissidents Refusenicks and others. Suffice it to say that my unwillingness to limit my advocacy only to Jewish Refusenicks in +the Soviet block caused... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017412.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017412.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a54f5ce91b386154f1e0f598533ae86d606fc641 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017412.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +My interest in Soviet Jewry was stimulated by Elie Wiesel's wonderful book The Jews of Silence. In 1971, I was invited to become a +fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences on the Stanford campus in +Palo Alto, California. This year for the first time, a fellow had been invited from Communist +Romania, Michael Cernea. He was Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology +at the University of Bucharest and an active member of the Romanian Communist Party. When... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017413.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017413.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bdaf628027a3e1a3af73d7d285b9e5546d97662a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017413.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +He thought I would mention the Michael Milken or Leona +Helmsley cases, but instead I said it was in the Sharansky case. Another "fee" for my work was the opportunity to speak in Carnegie Hall on behalf of Vaclav +Havel and other dissident artists in 1991. The American readers included Garrison Keillor, Marvin Hamlisch, Peter +Ustinov, William Warfield, Martin Garbus, and Maurice Sendak. My mother loved showing her friends the Carnegie Hall program, with my name +listed as a "performer." She would... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017414.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017414.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea623680f5996b868cb4caeaebc00e52a3f5a8d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017414.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +who had performed in South Africa. It turns out that the Register of Entertainers to be shunned is officially published by the +United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid "as a means to promote the cultural +boycott of South Africa." It included the names of entertainers and actors who have +performed in South Africa since 1981. Anyone whose name appears on the list is +prohibited from performing at any function sponsored by the United Nations. No advance notice is given... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017415.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017415.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3737efe05ed654b7b094d9a8a005d720bc0122cd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017415.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Best, Woody." +During the Apartheid regime, I was invited to speak at the Witwatersrand University in +Johannesburg. When I +appeared at the South African consulate in Boston to receive my Visa, the Counsel General was +well prepared: he had on his desk the Yale Law Journal article I had edited. I had hoped not only to speak against apartheid during my aborted visit to South Africa, but also +to try to get to Robin's Island to meet with the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. I was working with +Professor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017416.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017416.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..35ad85928e6d71d5244f8440284e8a35e00e3b93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017416.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Eventually, he was cleared of all +charges and continued to practice law in the newly united Germany. Human rights in Israel +A human rights case that surely tested my commitment to universal rights involved an Arab-Israeli +who was accused by Israel of assisting terrorism. I was in Israel at the time writing a long article on +the practice of administrative detention (or as Americans call it "preventive detention"). After meeting the Israeli-Arab in the detention center and reviewing his case,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017417.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017417.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16594855c46ec6804508ae15e7c22941a88ac14d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017417.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"There they go again" was the general response when Soviet diplomats at the United +Nations postured against the imperfections of the United States, while their Communist masters +locked up dissidents, made a mockery of justice," and kept entire nations in subjugation behind an +iron curtain. By the early 1970s, however, the Soviet ploy was beginning to be expropriated by the hard left in +the United States and Europe. Hard left intellectuals such as Professors Noam Chomsky of MIT +and Richard Falk... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017418.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017418.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e566140e4aa065d98fc6e7f6189fa518ba569ca2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017418.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Father Daniel Berrigan, a lapsed Catholic priest who had become the darling of the hard left as the +result of his anti-Vietnam War activities, began to call both the United States and Israel "criminal" +entities. 101 Chomsky notoriously defended the ruthless Cambodian dictator Pol Pot against +charges of genocide, insisting that western media reports of millions of murders were typical +exaggerations of horrors regularly but falsely attributed to Communist regimes. The National +Lawyers' Guild,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017419.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017419.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47e7d6b0e783e9fdc155b85cf910ecd6871359bd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017419.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +as "so proud" and so "endowed with intelligence," but who "have in the main given their +acquiescence or their support to the Nixon ethos" which has led to the death, maiming, +and displacement of "some six million Southeast Asians." Berrigan referred to the ironic +figure of 6 million as "one of those peculiar facts which must be called free-floating" and +concluded with a veiled threat to both American Jews and to Israel: "To put the matter +brutally, many American Jewish leaders... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017420.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017420.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b1fa5a7bf587025aff155f18ce365ea85b40d738 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017420.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The resulting one-sided report, which violated all the rules of an organization that had long +claimed to be a neutral advocate for universal human rights in the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt, was +according to Guild old-timers, designed as a litmus test for its Jewish members: +"Basically ... you had a situation where a bunch of Third World types wanted to ensure +that the Jews in the guild - and the Jews were almost certainly a majority - would be +forced to eat crow, to choose... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017421.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017421.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1beb5d6aec51014ab90cdbfae8905df19db4b2a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017421.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Nor was the Guild alone in shifting from "a purely human rights perspective" to a largely political +perspective that used the label of human rights selectively against its ideological enemies. Other +organizations which were founded on the principles of neutral human rights, such as Human +Rights Watch,1º2 the Carter Center and Amnesty International, +102 As an early supporter of Human Rights Watch and an admirer of its founder, I have taken upon myself +the responsibility of monitoring its actions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017422.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017422.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b756b808f3404a2c4c470a8cdc65c2a3b1dfbe2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017422.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The plight of their citizens who would most +benefit from the kind of attention a large and well-financed international human rights organization can +provide is being ignored as Human Rights Watch's Middle East division prepares report after report on +Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly +attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as +human shields. This incitement to genocide... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017423.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017423.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..427f17e0bc9454cc568d633d26786a51697cce58 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017423.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +When my mentor Arthur Goldberg was appointed as United States Ambassador to the U.N. in +1965, [check year] he asked me to help him in an informal capacity as an advisor on human rights +and matters of international law. In 1967, following Israel's victory in the Six Day War, Goldberg asked me to consult with him on +the drafting of Security Council Resolution 242 which sought to provide a framework for peace in +that troubled part of the world. The Resolution, which was carefully crafted in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017424.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017424.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92f7a71e3f860436ccc8eac7c3d88607e3e4a47d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017424.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The General Assembly, for instance, did not +mention Cambodia in a single resolution until November 1979—nearly a year after the genocide's +end. Activists Gareth Porter +and George Hilderbrnd wrote, "Cambodia is only the latest victim of the enforcement of an +ideology that demands that social revolutions be portrayed as negatively as possible, rather than +as a response to real human needs..." According to the pair, what "was portrayed as [the Khmer +Rouge's] destructive backward-looking policy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017425.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017425.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2022c7e96201b8a9831cbde1378264abebff2648 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017425.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The Zionism-Racism resolution was followed by a deluge of anti-Israel sentiment in the General +Assembly, the Security Council, and the UN Council on Human Rights. At the 1978 session, +"several speakers drew a parallel between Zionism and apartheid," insisting that "those selective +and racist regimes should be outlawed by the international community." In 1979, after the +Cambodian genocide was already completed but before any major UN body condemned the +genocide, there were more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017426.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017426.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18038d4cf0d8d32c1a2c078b8ae18324eec591f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017426.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +the Jews vilified in the pamphlet - declared "I am a Jew" at an NGO dinner there +Wednesday night." +The late Congressman Tom Lantos from California observed: +"whenever the word 'Holocaust' was read during the plenary review of the combined text, +one of the Islamic delegates—usually Egypt—intervened to change 'Holocaust' to +'holocausts.' Adding insult to injury, the same delegates requested that the phrase 'and +the ethnic cleansing of the Arab population in historic Palestine'... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017427.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017427.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed95cfea7744ec09c79f102ab41ff9219988ccd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017427.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +immediately called someone I knew in the Obama administration, who phoned the US Embassy in +Geneva and I was allowed back in the hotel with an apology. The photograph of me being +forcibly removed from the hotel was flashed around the world, with the following caption: +"Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, is led away after declaring he planned to +challenge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about his views on the Holocaust and +Israel minutes before the meeting between... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017428.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017428.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adf3799fb8e42d7a5ae6ce9778f05c49b1392f77 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017428.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Does no one recognize the need for a single, neutral standard of human +rights? As I spoke these harsh words in the shadow on the U.N. building, I wondered what my mentor +Arthur Goldberg, who left a lifetime job on the Supreme Court, to go to the U.N., would think of +what I was saying. I +think he would have approved of the thrust of my talk, if not of every word, as he did when +another one of his mentees, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, used powerful words to condemn the +actions of the U.N. My defense... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017429.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017429.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b081b2631886f64e3a811baf82ff13a95cf1a32 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017429.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Conclusion: The Second Six Million +The sad reality is that the inversion of the human rights agenda, especially at the U.N., has +needlessly cost many innocent lives. Since the time the world promised "never again" at the end +of World War II and built a structure and jurisprudence designed to fulfill that important promise, +another six million innocent victims of preventable genocides have been slaughtered while the +world once again stood silent. The UN has also failed to help... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017430.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017430.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a053ccecaa28755cf8cfdcd65d47b66f25f89ecc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017430.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +While these premeditated and carefully organized killing sprees were taking place, the United +Nations fiddled on about the imperfections of the United States, Israel and other western +democracies. The real victims of this inversion have not been the western democracies that have +been the focus of the U.N. condemnations. The real victims have been those willfully ignored by +the U.N., which has used its focus on Israel and other democracies as an excuse— a cover— for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017431.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017431.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f80b8a44db8a9c5db94871a1004bc8dfac9bdf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017431.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Conclusion-Closing Argument: +Looking back at my 50 year career and forward to the laws next 50 years. As I begin my second half century of law practice and teaching, I look back with fondness, +nostalgia and a heavy dose of surprise on my interesting life and career, as I look forward to my +remaining years. I +have surely lived the passion of my times and I've been very lucky, at least so far. (I don't want +to give myself a "kneina hura."109) Like the fictional Zelig in Woody... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017432.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017432.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98639abcd91efad05b8e2cd9d61e4c934fd99786 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017432.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As we were about to land, I was +invited into the cockpit where I saw the Hoover Dam and other interesting sights on the approach +to Las Vegas. Upon arriving in Las Vegas I was taken to the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson +Educational Campus and shown around the school that they built in a suburb of Las Vegas. Then +I was picked up by Larry Ruvo, who wanted me to see the brain institute that architect Frank +Grary had built in Ruvo's father's memory. After touring the facility, I went to the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017433.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017433.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..65fac2d200a5d625b0947aabc06810b0809f3cc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017433.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +We also discussed the Joe Paterno case +that was then in the news and that raised questions regarding obligations to report serious +misconduct. Following that class I sent an hour preparing for my next seminar which is a class of freshman at +Harvard College. The subject is "Where Does Your Morality Come From?", and we discussed +the moral limits on spying and other forms of subterfuge directed against enemy countries. Straight from class I went to the Huntington Theater where I had been asked to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017434.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017434.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2acd9a739b7e3d8877046ab849dfe2e1481fb60 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017434.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Two weeks later, my wife and I were off to Israel, where +I received the Begin Prize" for my "contributions to the Jewish people," and gave several lectures +in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. During my visit to Israel, I flew to Paris for a talk and to the Hague +on a human rights matter. Then back to Israel for a conference and meetings with the Prime +Minister and other government officials. My granddaughter joined us in Vienna for a few days of +opera and strudel, followed by a visit to Prague as guests... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017435.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017435.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a24442c3cfdd78aa8bbb0409ef7d8b3aedfc000c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017435.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Since the theme of this book is change change in the freedom of expression, change in the way +homicides are prosecuted and defended, change in the nature of media coverage of high profile +cases, change in the uses and misuses of "human rights," change in attitudes toward race, change +in the relationship between religion and government, and change in the way law is taught and +learned—it is appropriate to end with changes I have experienced in my own personal and +professional... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017436.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017436.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..797a250d28c8bbaee5913eb9d214ebb601094eff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017436.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Summarizing my past: The major changes in my life +The questions I am most often asked by others-and sometimes by myself-are about significant +changes in my life and why they occurred. Going back to my teen years, the question is why I +changed, within a few short months, from a C and D student in high school to an A + student in +college and law school. The change was dramatic and sudden—literally over the summer of +1955, between high school and college. What happened in those... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017437.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017437.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2c43d5938f7c7f4887a7671d32f9d3e8022b307 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017437.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I also had a bit of a chip on my shoulder and an "I'll show them" attitude toward my high school +teachers, who told me I'd never amount to anything, and my principle, who persuaded Yeshiva +College not to admit me. I had recurrent nightmares about failing exams +and being exposed as a "phony." I also wondered whether Brooklyn College was easier than +Yeshiva, because half the day was not devoted to religious studies. I loved Brooklyn College; and Brooklyn College loved —and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017438.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017438.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ca2c6d50d678291761106f5357e8e4d5b46de90 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017438.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In my thirties, I made another significant choice. Having spent my first 5 or 6 years at Harvard as +a pure scholar, writing dozens of law review articles, two case books and hundreds of lectures, I +was becoming restless. I "think therefore I am" (even if Des Carte got the +order right) was not enough. My wife always reminds me of the great Yiddish expression: "With one Tuchis (rear +end) you cannot dance at two weddings." Maybe not, but there's no harm in trying. And why +only... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017439.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017439.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d45a090c4d2c6116f0f4b262bda1235f5e82d4ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017439.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +My first book, written in my early 40s, was The +Best Defense, which became a national best seller and is still in print. One of them, +Chutzpah, was the number one best seller on The New York Times and other lists. I appeared frequently with Ted Koppel, Larry King, Katie +Couric and other widely watched shows. As a result, I became something of a public figure (for +better or worse.) I also met my second wife, Carolyn Cohen, and began to live a more stable and +rewarding home life. My wife... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017440.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017440.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33df9c941fce455b14afd3105da5937c35045255 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017440.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Israel, the "Jew Among Nations," was being treated by many on the hard left and on the Islamic +right, in the way the Jewish people had been treated for millennia. In the conclusion to my 1991 book, Chutzpah, I predicted the end of mainstream, top-down anti- +Semitism in America, and its replacement by anti-Zionism. I also predicted "a sharp decline in +support for Israel among college and university students," who will be "tomorrow's leaders." I +should have, but did not anticipate that the new... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017441.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017441.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5ddb0d33f8c10f4dc712bb146a85319893ea2de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017441.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I have experienced similar hatred around the world: in California, Toronto, Trondheim, Cape +town, London and Paris. Even during the worst days of McCarthyism, +there was nothing like this even directed at Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. And there was +nothing like this directed at the German Nazi regime or the Italian Fascist regime in the 1930s. The hatred directed at Israel calling it worse than Nazi Germany and Apartheid South +Africa-is sui genesis. I decided therefore to +prioritize my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017442.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017442.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc84dccfd9e8e0312d2787daf2a09ce028866db2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017442.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +In Waterstones one day I found myself in the Israel and Palestine section. To this day I don't know why I actually pulled it off the shelf, but I picked up a copy of +Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel. In my world view the Jews and the Americans controlled the media, so after a brief look at +the back, I scoffed thinking "vile Zionist propaganda". But I decided to buy it, eagerly awaiting the chance to deconstruct it so I could show why +Israel had no case and claim my findings as a personal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017443.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017443.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62678c274f5b6f30a48eed362c98e6ce424c0994 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017443.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Today, my views on all of the above subjects have remained essentially the same, but because of +my support, critical as it may be, for Israel, I am now widely regarded as a "conservative," a +"right winger," a "sell out," even a fascist. All they know is that is that I defend Israel, and that is enough for them to brand me as +"politically incorrect" and worse. This is the way MJ Rosenberg, an anti-Israel blogger active in +Media Matters, a Democratic think tank, absurdly put... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017444.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017444.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1056c22a59654209bb6916a82df348dcc337a7aa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017444.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +There were not always +understood by those who disagreed with where my principles sometimes took me and who +they led me to represent. I +admit that I have always tried to get the last word. Hence this posthumous letter to the +editor which I promise is my last word. Alan Dershowitz +From I don't know where +I hope this posthumous letter to the editor isn't published for a while, but I suspect it will be +relevant whenever my obituary appears. That's ok—as long as I get the last... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017451.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017451.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3972f8d6221045d4aa893f54a4411720959fd7c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017451.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu +Among the public figures I have counseled is Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We got to know each other +when he served in New York as Israel's representative to the United Nations. Shortly after he first became Prime Minister, he invited me to his office on a Friday afternoon. My wife, our daughter and I stood outside of the King David Hotel trying to hail a cab, but all the +cab drivers were heading home for the weekend. It looked... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017452.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017452.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..668bc8dd36835aa2f2e27370fad50452e7b6a51e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017452.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +about the situation in Israel and eventually about Iran, and invited me to the White House for +lunch to continue our discussion. +365 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017452 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017453.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017453.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..55468928ef2544c941cbbedf837f0e54a0380402 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017453.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Getting back to my invitation to President Clinton to attend Rosh Hashanah services, this was not +the first such invitation I had extended to a head of state. In 1990, I had invited Soviet President +Mikhail Gorbachev to join me at Rosh Hashanah services in Moscow, where I had been invited to +the Kremlin to speak at a conference on law and bilateral economic relations in September of +1990. Shortly thereafter, he announced that "the Democratic Russian public denounces... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017454.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017454.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8dfcec307acbfd505cff9cd67a19a1f0a63ae1ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017454.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Brooke Shields and her mother Teri +When Brooke Shields was 10 years old, her ambitious mother Teri signed a contract with an +equally ambitious photographer to photograph Brooke naked, taking a bath. Brooke was paid +$450 for the photo sessions by Playboy Press, and her mother signed a release giving the +photographer the unlimited right to publish the photographs anywhere and at any time. Seven years later, as Brooke was about the enter Princeton as a freshman, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017455.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017455.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..22ec1204ac5fc465c29705e6a52913af49f6c34d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017455.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I believe that if this case were to come before a court today, in light of the new sensitivity toward +child exploitation, the case would have been cited in favor of Brooke Shields. Eventually the case +was settled and the calendar wasn't distributed to Brooke's Princeton classmates. Brooke Shields +went on to a successful career as a multi-dimensional performer. +368 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017455 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017456.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017456.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0aa4a552394b5e5d85ed5c43dabb78624efa9a0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017456.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Marlon Brando +I have a small apartment in New York, which my wife and I use for weekend trips to the Opera +and other Manhattan events. On this particular weekend, I lent it out to my cousin and doctor, +Harold Solomon. He called me from the apartment and said that while he was out, a message +was left on the machine from a guy who did a pretty good imitation of Marlon Brando. Christian Brando was originally charged with murder, after he shot his half sister Cheyenne's +boyfriend.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017457.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017457.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03164d6bbeb9843bc014f1c77573450456dbae31 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017457.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Turning down Bobby Fisher +One celebrity whose case I turned down was the world champion of chess, Bobby Fisher. He was +training for his world championship match at the Catskill Mountain Resort at Ground.., where my +family and I were spending Passover. I received a note from Fisher asking me to meet with him. At the time he hadn't yet turned the corner into the anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism that +characterized his later years. Since he grew up in Brooklyn and went to high... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017458.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017458.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..633409d278040484e1342a50f8ef2e1a745c3c5b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017458.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Malcolm X at Harvard +Just weeks after I began teaching at Harvard, students from the Harvard Law Forum asked me if I +would introduce the controversial Malcolm X. I readily agreed, despite my disagreement with many of +Malcolm X's views, particularly with regard to the Middle East. He had just returned from a trip +to Mecca and Medina, where he embraced Islam and began to say some pretty awful things about +Israel, Zionists and Jews. They +I was polite in my introduction but... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017459.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017459.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ab71d53471b723810ed56515869fd0b8e447d51 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017459.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Martha Stewart +I knew Martha Stewart in law school. Her then husband was my classmate. When she got in +trouble, she called me and we discussed her situation. She had been indicted for acts she was +accused of committing after she retained top flight lawyers. She then hired another top flight +lawyer, Robert Murcalo, to represent her. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017460.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017460.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b4fd5b390ce13f68c64012d47312018e3da3418 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017460.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Ronald Reagan slept on my shoulder +I was flying back from Washington, DC on Eastern Airlines. A minute before the door closed, Ronald Regan was escorted +onto the plane and seated next to me. His security people seated him and +then left him to fly alone to Boston where he was to be met by other security people. He then asked me if I was a friend of Senator Ted Kennedy. I told him I knew Jerry +Brown from law school and he said, "Great American." We continued the talk until the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017462.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017462.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b3980f957c7f0b97207396eaa89542bdbfcbc12c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017462.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Marsha Clark without underwear +Marsha Clark may not have been the most sophisticated prosecutor I ever encountered, but she +certainly was among the most resourceful, employing everything she had to her advantage. In the +OJ Simpson case, Johnny Cochran was about to make his closing argument. As we walked to the +lecturn, Marsha Clark went over to him and whispered, "when you're up there, I want you think +of only one thing: I'm not wearing any underwear." When Johnny Cochran told... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017463.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017463.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b9a63aef4ae827f4bae4e4b22994d5072cb2a6bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017463.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The case of the Vibrating Beeper +A guy I knew from Yeshiva called me one day to tell me that his son, a medical school graduate +who was interning at a New York hospital, had just been suspended for masturbating in front of a +nurse. The young man was engaged to a +wonderful woman and my friend knew he could not have been guilty of this offense. She was to signal him when she was outside by calling his beeper. Because the +hospital forbade use of the beeper for private calls, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017465.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017465.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5e0484c432a0daf144a9cd1b023216e186debbc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017465.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Pierre Trudeau +When the Canadian government was confronted with terrorism from some people seeking +independence for Quebec, Prime Minister Trudeau invoked an emergency law called "The War +Measures Act" that authorized arrests without trial of dangerous people. The Prime Minister then +convened a conference of Canadian experts to advise him about the implementation of this +extraordinary law. We met at an isolated resort on a frozen lake. Among those in attendance +were the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017466.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017466.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..335b169965b3e88dfc4713b1f14da179ff105b60 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017466.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Moshe Katsav +President Moshe Katsav of Israel asked me to come to see him during the last year of his +presidency. He asked me for advice-political and media advice rather than legal, since I am not +an expert on Israeli law-about the sexual harassment charges he was then facing. He told me +that he had been offered a deal by the prosecutor under which he would plead guilty to an +harassment charge, and the prosecutor would not bring rape charges. I do not feel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017467.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017467.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..19447fd79823d4a0aa7e705ac9aa4a58ac324c64 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017467.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Dinner with President and Mrs. Ford +Several years before Gerald Ford died, he and his wife invited me to deliver a lecture in Palm +Springs where they were living. We schmoozed about our common experiences at Yale Law School, our different party +aftiliations, and our mutual love for football and other sports. Then he asked me a question: +"What do you think of Justice John Paul Stevens?" I responded that I thought he was one of the +greatest justices in modern history, that he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017469.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017469.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b8ae1020660cd5bb34f8ba684fe568f2cfc2f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017469.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My only "crime" +I can think of only one crime that I may have committed in my life, and I know that if I had been +tried for it, I would not only have been acquitted, but the jurors would have cheered me. It occurred after my son, Elon, had serious brain surgery for a life threatening illness. Shortly after the surgery, he went back to work +selling newspapers in the subway station at Harvard Square. One day two young hoodlums from +Somerville beat him up, broke his tooth and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017470.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017470.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d10c14a6e99e069e51b718f451ea5954cb3957b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017470.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Jumping a mugger +When I was a young lawyer, I frequently took my kids to Boston Bruin hockey games, which +were rough and tumble affairs, both on the ice and in the stands. At one game, a great lawyer +with whom I have sometimes worked, Joe Oteri was sitting a row in front of me with his teenage +daughter. An older teenage guy began +to aggressively flirt with Joe's daughter. When Joe saw him touching his daughter in an +unwelcome way, he grabbed him. Unbeknownst to Joe, the guy's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017471.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017471.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..878bc6299cea7285ab9687b7061933fb4b269e96 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017471.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +How a frozen tongue saved me +There used to be a deli in New York that named sandwiches after famous people. My sandwich +was "tongue on rye," which I took as flattering, especially since some of my friends had turkey or +ham in their named sandwiches. Tongue was not only appropriate because I talk a lot but also +because a tongue once helped me beat off a would-be mugger. I was coming from my parent's +house in Brooklyn and heading back to school in New Haven on the New York... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017472.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017472.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9eeef9cb298373994c6c7af883bcbbd4a9b2ab5a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017472.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The case of the questionable antiques +My brother Nathan and I were retained to appeal the conviction of a Persian antiquities seller, +who was charged with arranging the theft of his own antiquities. The story, which became a lead +article in The New Yorker magazine, involved a man whose father had been the director of +antiquities for the Shaw of Iran. When the Shaw fell, the son took the family's antiquities and +opened a shop in London. The Metropolitan Museum in New York... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017473.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017473.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2696437e39735dc17bae788497312db7234d12de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017473.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +OJ's glove +I happen to be on the way to Australia to deliver a talk. There was a stopover in Los Angeles and +I decided to pay a visit to the OJ trial. My usual role was to provide legal briefs and memoranda +from my office in Cambridge on two or three occasions I appeared in court to argue motions, but +these appearances were rare and episodic. The man on the witness stand was an expert in gloves, He was +testifying in the most boring and tedious matter ever, about the stitching... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017474.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017474.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d5378699b8dfd176dfded15acca7ef990690421 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017474.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Singing with Vidal Sassoon +I was the guest speaker at a Hebrew University dinner honoring Frank Gary. Among the guests +was the hair stylist Vidal Sassoon. I was +introduced to Sassoon by David Steinberg, the comedian. Steinberg said, "Did you know that +Vidal Sassoon had fought for Israel during its War of Independence?" Sassoon added, "I was in +the Palmach," which was the elite strike force. Sassoon simply didn't look like he was old enough +to have participated in the 1948 war... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017477.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017477.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7873b263e4f063ef11475b81820548fff228e0d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017477.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Throwing out first pitch at Fenway for my birthday and having sandwich named after +you at Bleacher Bar +390 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017477 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017478.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017478.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b4ea535753b52631e6240a4a3acc3356e78ff20 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017478.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Years later, after Anatoly, now Natan, became a leading political figure in Israel, we were both +invited to speak at the celebration of Israel's 60" birthday. One of the events was held in the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem. I got into the elevator and by coincidence both Mikael Gorbachov and Sharansky got into the +same elevator. Gorbachov recognized us (I had met him in Moscow during one of my human +rights trips while he was the Chairman of the Communist Party and the head of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017479.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017479.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a256f980748a3cfb1ac359e6c8014810ffd8fc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017479.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Claus Von Bulow +After we won the case, Claus and his then girlfriend decided to host a dinner party. He +told me among his other guests would be the novelist Norman Mailer and his wife. About halfway through the dinner, Mailer grabbed his +wife's arm and said, "Let's get out of here. When +the movie came out, Claus refused to go to see it insisting that he would never watch Jeremy +Irons play him. After about an hour of conversation with me, she turned to +Claus and said, "Now that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017480.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017480.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2cbe7b4d529ae33cf38585c30830ef02d766882 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017480.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The killing of John Lennon +Another death for which I have long felt some responsibility was the murder of John Lennon by +Mark Chapman in 1980. Lennon was in the United States on that fateful day because I helped +him avoid deportation back to England in 197 Had our legal team not been successful in +stopping the Nixon Administration's efforts to deport Lennon on trumped up allegations relating +to his use of marijuana in England, Lennon would have been deported and banned from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017481.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017481.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..79d94e933d154c1fa41036ae62e2443fb2d25010 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017481.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Mazoltuv Borukhova +In February 2011, I argued the appeal of Mazoltuv Borukhova, whose murder conviction became +the basis of Janet Malcolm's best seller, Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial. Borukhova, a young doctor who recently immigrated from Bukhara in the former Soviet Union, +was involved in a hotly contested divorce and custody suit with her dentist husband, who had also +immigrated from Bukhara. Mazoltuv was accused of hiring a cousin from the State of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017482.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017482.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..633aea3fe0b7837df5a3afc42f313ba715bc103c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017482.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Gigi Jordan +I am currently representing a woman named Gigi Jordan, who admittedly killed her 8 year old +severely autistic child and tried to take her own life at the same time. There is considerable +evidence that her child was being sexually abused by his biological father and Gigi was in great +fear that her former husband was trying to kill her. If he succeeded, she believed that her autistic +child would be left at the mercy of his sexually abusive father. Gigi decided that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017483.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017483.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aeb2eef64190621ecf348529c0d99efc5e688cf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017483.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Leona Helmsley +Leona Helmsley was not a good client. She then +screamed at the waiter, "Now clean it up and beg me for your job." I simply walked away, not +wanting to be associated with that kind of public rudeness. When my daughter was born, Leona had her private jet fly a large stuffed bear to Boston, where it +was placed in a limo and brought to our home. My daughter loved the bear and several years +later had an opportunity to thank Leona for sending it. I +stole it from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017484.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017484.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfcf83468f7c893f0111d59c48288a9dc0645c1d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017484.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +That, in a nutshell, was Leona Helmsley. She cared more about hurting others than helping +herself. +397 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017484 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017485.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017485.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cf2a32a13d689390a23a639b56930be06748d6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017485.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Being mentored by Elie Wiesel +Since the beginning of my career, Elie Wiesel-the world's most famous and influential Holocaust +survivor-has served as a guide, mentor and friend. As a professor of public law, I get to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. In my letter of nomination, I wrote the following: +No one in the world today deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than Elie Wiesel. It is +particularly disappointing that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee which, because of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017486.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017486.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0053310dde762a6ead029476d2fb3ed34ab699d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017486.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Elie Wiesel's work is far more universal. For example, those who have +suffered most in the former Yugoslavia have been the Croats and the Muslims. It +was they who Elie Wiesel risked his life to protect. Yet during the Holocaust, +which took the lives of 6 million of Wiesel's people, the Croats were among the +most barbarous hands-on perpetrators of genocide against Jewish babies, women +and men. The Islamic world has been in conflict with Elie Wiesel's people over +Israel, and many innocent Jews... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017487.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017487.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adb41f0a1592705ab72a1f0b16ec595785641b24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017487.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +whether the joke was funnier in English than in French, and he replied, "No, but Mitterrand +doesn't know how to tell a joke, his translator does." +Recently, Elie had quintuple bypass surgery. I had lunch with him shortly thereafter, and all he +could talk about was the future and how important it was to keep up the struggle for human +rights. Elie Wiesel is truly one of the great men of the 21" Century. When I think of how close +he came to not surviving, and when I think of how... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017488.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017488.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..29eb0c54dabf61fe1608199e1f5a5d0d44a81f17 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017488.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE +FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND +FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA +CASE NO.: 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG +JEFFREY EPSTEIN, +Plaintiff, +vS. SCOTT ROTHSTEIN, individually, +BRADLEY J. EDWARDS, individually, and +L.M., individually, +Defendant, +NOTICE OF FILING TRANSCRIPT IN SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPORT OF BRADLEY +EDWARDS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT +Defendant/Counterplaintiff, BRADLEY J. EDWARDS, by and through his undersigned +attorneys, hereby gives notice of the filing of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017489.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017489.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e3c498f9a56342910f740db24b37e2d962ef77d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017489.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Epstein +Case No.: 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG +Notice of Filing Transcript In Supplemental Support of Bradley Edwards' Motion for Summary Judgment + +COUNSEL LIST +Bradley J. Edwards, Esquire +Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos +425 North Andrews Avenue, Suite 2 +Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 +Phone: (954) 524-2820 +Fax: (954) 524-2822 +Jack A. Goldberger, Esquire +Atterbury, Goldberger & Weiss, P.A. +250 Australian Avenue South, Suite 1400 +West Palm Beach, FL 33401 +Phone: (561) 659-8300 +Fax: (561)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017490.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017490.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfacf2f2d9d040dc71b0d71ab60f9675328f8866 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017490.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Page +1 +IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE +FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN +AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA +GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION +JEFFREY EPSTEIN, +Plaintiff, +vS. SCOTT ROTHSTEIN, individually, +and BRADLEY J. NO. 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG +500 East Broward Boulevard, +Et. Lauderdale, Florida +Thursday, June 14, 2012 +9:14 a.m. - 12:37 p.m. DEPOSITION +Of +SCOTT ROTHSTEIN +(Via Video Conference) +Taken +on behalf of the Trustee +pursuant to +a notice of taking deposition +- - - +FRIEDMAN, LOMBARDI &... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017491.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017491.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31b104d0e5fe64ab65e37f7b044ab3f60d9b7e55 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017491.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +2 +3 +8 +50 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +3 +4 +5 +8 +INDEX +WITNESS +SCOTT ROTHSTEIN +(By Ms. P.A. by +Tonja Haddad, Esq +Attorney for the Plaintiff +ATTERBURY, GOLDBERGER & WEISS. P.A., by +ack Goldberger, Es +torney for the Plaintif +SEARCY DENNEY SCAROLA ET AL, by +Jack Scarola, Esq. Attorney for the Defendant, Brad Edwards. Attorney for Scott Rothstein. +(Appearing via Video Conference.) +U.S. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017492.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017492.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9084d7af0b9c2c705f80391c1ed8657d807dd233 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017492.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +1 +2 +3 +4 +6 +8 +9 +10 +1 +12 +13 +1 +4 +1 +5 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +1 +2 +3 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +different form than it ended because it started as +bridge loans and things of that nature, and then +morphed into the Ponzi scheme. The 2005 time frame, that's when the bridge +loans started? And in 2005 had you moved over to 401 yet or +were you still in the building where Colonial Bank +was? It was definitely +Stu Rosenfeldt, Michael Pancier, and Susan Dolin may +have been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017493.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017493.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71d373d9e7e7755392187e0c9e12006ec3c46699 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017493.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +When you were hiring and bringing in all +these new attorneys, did everyone come in as a +partner? How did you decide who came in as a partner +and who came in as an associate? Depended upon their level of expertise, +practice, book of business. It was a decision Stuart +and I made together on a case-by-case basis. So you and Stu where the -- were in charge +of hiring? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017494.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017494.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0bc4c79c4bf4364245b188cb16f8cd2fefd27f62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017494.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +When you were looking at people to +bring in to the finn to legitimize, as you said. Your +firm had a very unique area of practice and had a very +unique environment to which to work. How did you know +or how did you come to decide what people may or may +not fit into that? I was not bringing the people in to +legitimize the law firm. Are +you looking for how I brought people into the Ponzi +scheme? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017495.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017495.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..626780a0e17caab8119a56927d04664710494e09 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017495.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Do you recall what salary you had offered +Brad to come join the firm? You have to just try to +differentiate that what I knew then is a lot different +than what I know now so ... Did you learn about his book of business or +know what kind of cases he was bringing in prior to +hiring him? I do know that he -- I discussed either with +Russ, well, I know with Russ, and perhaps some other +people, 1 knew about the Epstein case. So was that case your primary motive in +bringing Brad into the firm? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017496.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017496.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13871d68df8aaa054b5cd9664be548d6243e535b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017496.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +From time to +time Russ and the other guys in the tort group would +tell me what was going on in certain cases, but until +I made a decision to utilize that file for an illegal +purpose related to something illegal that I was doing +along with my co-conspirators, I just assumed my +lawyers were going to work the case and eventually it +would hopefully work out well for the law firm. At your firm, when e-mails would go out to +attorneys at RRA or all attorneys at RRA, were you +part of that e-mail group?... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017497.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017497.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9cf8f5633b48baf3ef9bbb00324b6838cb14f9b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017497.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +1 +3 +4 +5 +6 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +what was going on. And I may have spoke to him, I +know I spoke to Russ, but I may have spoke to him as +well within a couple of days just prior to this due +diligence because I was trying to at least get some +information in my head that 1 could use when 1 was +creating this story for the investors. And what was the purpose of this internet +system? To be able to communicate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017498.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017498.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e61e3b170ca06bec39b1525235f0f7a5b84f1a66 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017498.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +1 +2 +3 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +1 +2 +3 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +had audio and/or video surveillance? When you say "capabilities," does that mean +you didn't always turn it on or you just turned it on +when you felt like it? But unless I wanted to see what was going on or listen +to what was going on, I didn't turn it on. You can see it in the -- it wasn't hidden, +you can see it. Did you have +Page... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017499.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017499.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dea426b8aa72c9deda35b26f2490f85f4b608c86 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017499.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +He had had significant -- as you know, he +also had significant political connections and +everyone who is not living under a rock knows I was +doing everything I could to garner significant +political power. Jenne and his +political connections, were you hiring him to utilize +him with respect to any of the police department +investigations? You had stated earlier you had +dealings with police departments. But I also had significant +illegitimate things with law enforcement that had +nothing to do with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017500.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017500.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..715c62dd1d163a1f04b140ab13360344732881ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017500.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I flipped through +certain boxes in the file. Do you know where those files were stored? So you flipped -- sorry, please continue. The day that the investor group +came in, 1 actually had Ken Jenne and some others +actually bring me some more of the boxes actually into +my office while the investors were there. You say "Ken Jenne and others." who were the +others to whom you are referencing? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017501.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017501.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef7d365688e2e96f487bb0ce8949a27d8789f2d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017501.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +I don't recall, but I do recall saying to +the investors -- I recall having a conversation prior +to the investors coming in with Russ Adler and Russ +had told me that Epstein had flown Bill Clinton on his +plane, had flown Prince Andrew on his plane. And ! +don't remember whether that was on any of the flight +manifests or not, but I left that to the investors' +imagination as to what they were being told about +Mr. Epstein and these other famous people that were +cavorting with Mr. Epstein and let... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017502.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017502.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..433e381aa094a47e20ae0e608f63aaaaa97b798f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017502.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +This being said, I was +bringing in legitimate lawyers to form legitimate +practice groups to practice legitimate law, having +nothing to do with the Ponzi scheme. During the year 2009, were there any, to +your knowledge, any big settlements of any cases at +RRA? The year 2009 was just dismal across the +board? Some people did better than others, but yes, +overall it was for a firm of 70 lawyers, it was +dismal. So there were no big wins coming into the +firm as far as a financial windfall other than... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017503.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017503.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c275770978b6492bf121495f140ec6292836e75 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017503.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +2 +3 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +1 +2 +3 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +of 2009 about the Epstein meeting and some additional +investigation into the Epstein case. Does that refresh your investigation as to +when you met with the investors in the +Discala/Clockwork Group? Do you recall if you took Discala and his +other investors to a football game in 2009? Would that be around the time you +were trying to get them to invest in the case? Did you... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017504.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017504.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39f3046b4922df2fd1027d5b05efe96c48f506c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017504.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Cara or Cara, C-a-r-a, Holmes? To the best of my recollection, she was a +former FBI agent or maybe IRS agent. She was a former federal agent. Did you hire her to work for you? Yes, I hired her at the suggestion of Ken +Jenne. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017505.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017505.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..29706e9a525dfa80af56ded1fcb25494c42ac080 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017505.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +It was +labelled the Epstein meeting with an Epstein +conference room reserved. What's your question and 1 will tell +you. To the best of my recollection, I actually +had introduced some of the investors to some of the +people working on the Epstein case, and that is likely +the meeting that you are referring to. But it could be the meeting where you +introduced the Epstein litigation team to your Ponzi +investors? That could have been the meeting in which +you introduced the Ponzi investors to people... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017506.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017506.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ccd5fa9b4214219f148ccdfa757d06953333ecfb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017506.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +So 1 was finally able to +say this is how you know, here is a case file. I may +have, I don't remember specifically one way or the +other, but I may have utilized actual plaintiff names +from the cases filed, but I may have made them up. 1 +have no specific recollection one way or the other. 1 +was totally geared toward simply getting the investor +money into the Ponzi scheme +Q. Were you aware that the day after this +meeting took place on July 24th, 2009, a new federal +complaint was filed against... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017507.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017507.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca8c116b5760ae7e511cd203c242b87b28c99fd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017507.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +And were you filing any cases back in 2009 +in federal court? Do you remember how PACER works? SCAROLA: Which question would like +answered? SCAROLA: Objection, compound +BY MS. Do you remember how PACER worked when you +were filing a case, Scott? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017508.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017508.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0a5281fa74385d762748e7f09582e767abe35d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017508.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Do you recall when you hired her to work for +you? I don't have a recollection one way or the +other. Have you ever seen this e-mail +before? Before that I have no independent recollection of +having seen it. Did you ever have any communications with +Ms. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017509.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017509.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43487a47cf98e4f9389098cc9f9077d96b918ce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017509.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +It says, "The first deposition occurred on +July 27th," correct? And Paragraph 6 clearly delineates that in +August 2009 a phone call was received by the +cooperating witness that explained that this +Mr. You +know, Tonja, just so this record is clear, you know, +as I'm sitting here, I have a vague recollection of +perhaps Ken Jenne coming, talking to me and telling me +that someone in my office was going to cooperate with +someone in this investigation. So much time has +passed, but as I'm reading this,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017510.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017510.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..67168dfbec4e5accb81ce204e907bf9c89fef391 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017510.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Did you always meet with them in your office +or did you do it more socially down at Bova or +elsewhere? Actually, that group of investors were +looking at a lot of different cases or at least +multiple different cases that we were attempting to +lure them into the Ponzi scheme utilizing, so 1 met +with them on multiple occasions, both in my office and +at restaurants. Mike Fisten was a law enforcement officer of +some type that 1 hired. He was a Ken Jenne suggestion. It had nothing to do with what Ken... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017511.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017511.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99f3598cc821b4cc81e48a2803964ca96af252a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017511.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +You said "still require," which would have +meant that I testified -- +Q. Did you require attorneys at your firm to +attend your fundraisers? Do you recall between April and July of 2009 +how many fundraisers you would have had? That wouldn't have been +unusual, but I don't have a specific recollection. Did you ever meet any of the plaintiffs in +the Epstein case? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017512.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017512.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f6367a029ab62ae660172c968447f21271f1383 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017512.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +1 +2 +3 +6 +7 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +2.5 +had to have Curtis Renie or Bill actually come into my +office, set up a special icon to allow me to do that. Who else attended the meetings that you had +with the Clockwork group with respect to the investors +in the Epstein case? There were multiple meetings with what I'll +call the Clockwork investors at various points in +time. Some of the meetings occurred down in Bova. Some of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017513.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017513.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..238f2c3993a40ec799a846fea68fc4323122aff1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017513.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Did Wayne Black work for Ron Cacciatore? Brad might +be able to tell you. THE WITNESS: When you said Wayne Black's +name again and that I hired him to do something, I +seem to think that he may have been associated in +some way with Mr. I don't remember whether or not 1 +met Mr. It would have been +case by case. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017514.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017514.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..154a862eb9dac6e0b6603b2df0c9ec9e3f5fbb1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017514.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Adler was one of your +co-conspirators in the Ponzi scheme; is that correct? Adler become a +co-conspirator in your Ponzi scheme? Adler recommended +that Brad Edwards be hired at your firm? So before Brad Edwards was hired at RRA, +Russell Adler was a co-conspirator of yours in the +illegal part of the RRA firm; is that correct? Edwards was hired after Adler was your +co-conspirator? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017515.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017515.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba0453da00fe3be034687afe18b0255664657f84 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017515.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +5 +9 +10 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +2 +5 +6 +7 +8 +1 +0 +11 +12 +13 +14 +15 +16 +17 +18 +19 +20 +21 +22 +23 +24 +25 +together possible that I gave Russ the okay to hire +him before, I just don't have a specific recollection +one way or the other. At some point, I take it, you learned, +whether you sat in on a meeting when Mr. Edwards was +hired or whether your co-conspirator hired him, at +some point you learned that Mr. Edwards, in fact, had +been hired by the firm; is that correct? Yes, but I don't have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017516.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017516.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9b0ae98cf742b640b25607e8776ae48c055b170 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017516.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +And these young lawyers, would you consider +Mr. And that was during the time period that the +Ponzi scheme was still going on, correct? Did Adler ever the tell you about any +discussions he had with Brad Edwards about the illegal +part of the operations at Rothstein? Did Russell Adler ever tell you -- Russell +Adler is your co-conspirator, we've established that. Page 102 +Did Russell Adler in the furtherance of your +conspiracy ever tell you he had discussed with Brad +Edwards about the illegal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017517.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017517.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c4221695439ee9ebde0574d55827f883d06bf9c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017517.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +And do you remember what Adler told +you specifically about the Epstein case that helped +you have a basis of information to sell it to the +investors? Other than him telling me that it was a +billionaire pedophile, other than him telling me about +the flight manifest, I don't have a specific +recollection of what else he told me. Did you actually look at the flight manifest +at sometime, Mr. And what was it about those flight manifests +that you felt would help you pitch the Epstein case to +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017518.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017518.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe912504c3042ef59114da420acc3fb39355e314 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017518.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +If you are including within that me walking +past Brad in the hall and saying, "Hey, Brad how are +you? How is the Epstein stuff going?" Then it's very +likely that I talked to him about it in that manner. But l have no specific recollection one way or the +other as to having any lengthy conversations with +Mr. I had a co-conspirator who was deeply +involved in the Ponzi scheme that I could go to to get +any information I wanted, Mr. So if you had a question of your +co-conspirator, Russell Adler,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017519.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017519.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cfcb294eeaeb25523273e8a4f6523e580b718da4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017519.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +So we would look at when the Clockwork group +was brought into this and the Epstein case was used +then and then we would look at the payroll records to +see whether Mr. Edwards got a bonus after the +Clockwork group was brought into the Ponzi scheme, +correct? Edwards had nothing to do with the Ponzi scheme, +nor was he rewarded even surreptitiously without his +knowledge for helping me with the Ponzi scheme. The bulk of this law firm had nothing to do +with the Ponzi scheme. So, for example,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017520.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017520.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72b24318ac75c6d61eaa33ec96cfbb3d82d5041a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017520.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Did you ever meet any of the plaintiffs? SCAROLA: That's question that's been +asked and answered +THE WITNESS: 1 do not have a specific +recollection of ever meeting them. Do you know whether any of your +investigators at the firm had any kind of high tech +surveillance equipment or, you know, wire tapping +equipment? What sort of equipment did you know that +Page 118 +they had, meaning your investigators? You know as part of the Epstein litigation, +and I'm talking about now after your using it in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017521.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017521.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b890770894f3adb5e4b3dc8a5e1853470f95b6f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017521.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Do you have any +reason to doubt the accuracy of that testimony? Do you have any +reason to doubt the accuracy of that testimony? I want you to assume that Brad has or will +testify that you did not provide any input whatsoever +into the handling of the legitimate Epstein cases. Do +you have any reason whatsoever to doubt the accuracy +of that testimony? I want you to assume that Brad has or will +testify that you never met any of the legitimate +plaintiffs in the Epstein cases. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017522.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017522.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..84efd432a92a24406c59cf9947522deccb8c6d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017522.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +SCAROLA: Thank you very much. +(Thereupon, the taking of the deposition was +concluded at 12:37 p.m.] +2 +SCOTT ROTHSTEIN +Sworn to and subscribed +before me this +of +day +2012. Notary Public, State +of Florida at Large. Biscayne Building +19 West Flagler Street +Miami, Florida 33130 +Telephone (305) 371-6677 +June 21, 2012 +IN RE: EPSTEIN VS. EDWARDS +SCOTT ROTHSTEIN C/O MARC NURIK +Dear SCOTT ROTHSTEIN: +With reference 10 the deposition of +yourself taken on June 14, 2012, in connection with +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017523.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017523.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23924e290a52d10514644cd07bc010bf1db37552 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017523.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Attachments: +8/18/2012 4:11:07 PM +JEEVACATION@gmail.com +Fwd: Program & Attendee list +SALSS Attendee 2012 FINAL v2.pdf; Untitled attachment 60978.htm; SALSS Program 2012 FINAL.pdf; Untitled +attachment 60981.htm +High +Importance: +Dear Jeffrey, +I am sorry I did not call back Yesterday-I was exhausted from a crazy week and fell asleep +as soon as I came home! Anyway, here is the full program and attendee list attached, this +is the Globalization Summit I invited Bill Clinton to when I met him in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017524.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017524.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa76f142fbab93d2dd4634de521137665f21c64a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017524.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Ernst e Young HQ +Hotell Kung Carl +The Royal Guards +The Museum of Science & Technology +M/S Riddarfärden +GOLD SPONSORS +Danske +Bank +El ERNST & YOUNG +Quarty in everything we Do +DELPHI +) ELEKTA +VINNOVA +McKinsey&Company +SILVER SPONSORS +janssen +Hotell Kung Carl +Stockholm +The Capital of Scandinavia +SWEARE FOUNDATION +OTHER PARTNERS AND SPONSORS +ACCESS +AliveCor GrOCell +• Bactiguard' +BioLamina +CONSU SWEDENERAL +New York +diabetes tools +duHaan Groupe Inc. DiA GENiC ++ HOTEL... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017525.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017525.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b9637ee9d558d194b0ed234bbda7148adf01c73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017525.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Haseltine, +President, ACCESS Health International +9:20 a.m. Welcoming Remarks +Michael Treschow, +Chairman, Unilever & Former Chairman, Ericsson +9:30 a.m. Special Guest Speaker +Zhiping Cui, +SVP & Head of International Investment, +Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group +9:45 a.m. The Role of Multi-stakeholder Collaborations +in Improving Global Health and Care +Di. Gary Phillips, +Head Healthcare Industries, World Economic +Forum +Bactiguard +Dia Genic +Laurent Leks +CEO, Kindstar +12:00 noon Luncheon +Yva... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017526.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017526.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..830a450c12c0ab4e1437be88ca2fe34fc50c371d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017526.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +wwW +www +INTELLECTUAL JAZZ +DAVID AGUS +DAN ARIELY +KEITH BLACK +DAVID BLAINE +MIKE BLOCK +ADAM BLY +SCOTT BOLTON +DAVID BROOKS +MARK CUBAN +ANTONIO DAMASIO +JACK DANGERMOND +DAVE GALLO +FRANK GEHRY +MATT GRONING +HERBIE HANCOCK +DANNY HILLIS +BJARKE INGELS +QUINCY JONES +MARY JORDAN +JON KAMEN +JEFFREY KATZENBERG +NORMAN LEAR +YO-YO MA +JOHN MAEDA +JOHN MAZZIOTTA +NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE +TODD OLDHAM +CRISTINA PATO +STEVEN PINKER +LISA RANDALL +PETER RAVEN +MOSHE SAFDIE +MEGAN SMITH +BENEDIKT TASCHEN +JULIE TAYMOR +CHARITY TILLEMANN... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017527.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017527.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76717ce6cefdf4889e361081d55151d0e752d5ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017527.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +WWW +wwW +SCHEDULE +TUES18SEPT +Mission Inn Hotel and Spa +3649 Mission Inn Avenue +Riverside, CA 92501 +Tel: 951.784.0300 +www.missioninn.com +5:00PM OPENING in the St. Francis of Assisi Chapel at The Mission Inn +RICHARD SAUL WURMAN +YO-YO MA and will.i.an +C. WILLIAMS AND STEVEN PINKEF +7:20PM WINE and hors d'oeuvres in the Atrio adjacent to the Chapel +8:30PM DINNER in the Galleria at The Mission Inn +WED19SEPT +Esri +380 New York Street +Redlands, CA 92373 +Tel. 909.793.2853 +www.esri.com +7:00AM Transport... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017528.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017528.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..65a4b57349cec8761322cbc8dddd808dce28491a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017528.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +DAVID AGUS +David Agus (born January 29, 1965) is an American physician +and a co-founder of Navigenics, a personal genetic testing +company, and Oncology.com, the largest online cancer +resource and virtual community and Applied Proteomics. Agus completed his residency training at Johns Hopkins +Hospital and completed his oncology fellowship training at +the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He spent two years at the National Institutes of Health as a +Howard Hughes Medical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017529.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017529.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d815b746ba61b15e2bc2cc2ba66ad9dc211b239 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017529.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +DAN ARIELY +Dan Ariely (born April 29, 1968) is an Israeli American +professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He +teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The +Center for Advanced Hindsight. He is the author +of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, +both of which became New York Times best sellers. Dan Ariely was born in New York City while +his father was studying for an MBA degree at Columbia +University. In his senior year of +high school, he was active in Hanoar... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017530.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017530.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..306b0db470f12ed27b975ce572c4a6c9bd953ce7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017530.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +He is chairman of the neurosurgery department and +director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at +Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. His +mother, Lillian, was a teacher and his father, Robert, was the +principal at a racially segregated elementary school in Auburn, +Alabama; prohibited by law to integrate the student body, +Black's father instead integrated the faculty, raised standards, +and brought more challenging subjects to the school. Later in +his childhood,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017531.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017531.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d29e1cd22d88baaa2e1a3543d653c70e07e605c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017531.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +For more than a decade, David Blaine has been attracting +the world's attention with his high-profile endurance stunts. To that end, he's been buried +alive in New York City for a week, barely survived being +encased inside a six-ton block of ice for three days and three +nights, stood atop a 100-foot-tall pillar in Bryant Park for 36 +hours without a safety net, survived inside a transparent box in +London on nothing but water for 44 days, and spent one week +submerged in a sphere-shaped aquarium at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017532.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017532.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50bb8efbfbaceeb547a2d8fa5d76754624317c55 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017532.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +MICHAEL GLEN BLOCK +VAI +Michael Glen Block (born May 25, 1982) is an American +cellist, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the +ideal musician of the twenty-first century" by cultural icon +Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby +McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, +Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and +other notable musicians. Paul Sunday, +Regis and Kelly, VH1, the Disney Channel, WNBC-TV +with Chuck Scarborough, and the CBS Early... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017533.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017533.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b1cc5c94fd2f9633caa03967e2eff1cde730aa21 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017533.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +He is the editor of "Science is Culture: +Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + +Society" (published by HarperCollins) and the creator +of the data visualization platform Visualizing.org. Together with Paola Antonelli he co-founded a +monthly gathering of scientists, architects, and designers +that laid the foundation for Design and the Elastic Mind, +an exhibition about science and design at The Museum +of Modern Art. He is a recipient of the +Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017534.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017534.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96c6014e5e9dc0cbfd20505cf32e520c93331d41 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017534.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +DAVID BROOKS +David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural +commentator who writes for The New York Times. He worked as +an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times; +a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal; +a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a +contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly; +and as a commentator on National Public Radio. Brooks, who is Jewish, was born in Toronto, +Canada-his father was a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017535.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017535.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8d7588b8547b1612988524401b0af29a87caaf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017535.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +MARK CUBAN +When Mark Cuban purchased the Dallas Mavericks on +January 14, 2000, the face of the organization began to +change immediately. Once again Mavericks games had +a party atmosphere as Reunion Arena rocked with the +return of the "Reunion Rowdies." Mavericks games +became more than just ordinary NBA games- +they were a total entertainment experience. It was through this personal touch that +fans throughout the Metroplex, and around the world, began +to notice Cuban's energetic personality and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017537.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017537.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68b853961930e9e092d8660600a6e18f7388d495 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017537.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +OUR HOST +JACK DANGERMOND +Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri, the +world's fourth largest privately held software company. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Redlands, California, +Esri is widely recognized as the technical and market leader +in geographic information systems, or GIS, pioneering +innovative solutions for working with spatial data. Esri has more than one million users in over 350,000 +organizations representing government; nongovernmental +organizations (NGOs);... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017538.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017538.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68c83b18eae065063847812930584efd791f7c2b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017538.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +DAVE GALLO +David Gallo is an American oceanographer and Director +of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic +Institution-a preeminent, globally recognized scientific +laboratory. He has been +described by TED Conferences as "an enthusiastic ambassador +between the sea and those of us on dry land." With more than +8 million views his TED presentation "Underwater +Astonishments" is among the top s TED Talks viewed to date. Most recently he co-led an expedition +to create the first detailed and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017539.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017539.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac16de104d3e31759eb5b505cec6476cfb37006e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017539.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +FRANK GEHRY +Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family +to Los Angeles in 1947. Gehry received his Bachelor of +Architecture degree from the University of Southern California +in 1954, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University +Graduate School of Design. Brunner Memorial Prize +in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and +Letters. In 1989, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture +Prize, perhaps the premiere accolade of the field, honoring +"significant... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017540.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017540.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dbdf9a472f21cac4c3ccb72dccde77ba02c26149 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017540.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Groening attended Evergreen State College +in Washington State, where he studied philosophy and +continued his interest in cartoons, comics and music +After his graduation in 1977, Groening headed to +Los Angeles where he struggled in immobilizing but irksome +poverty. Their popularity +encouraged Matt to syndicate, and in April 1980, Life In Hell® +formally debuted in the Los Angeles Reader. Life in Hell® has also been collected in a best- +selling series of books with over two million copies in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017541.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017541.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..93d62dbd46572b1f30ffcd0f37ae54403d0bcf0b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017541.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +With an +illustrious career spanning five decades and 14 Grammy® +Awards, including Album of the Year for River: The Joni +Letters, he continues to amaze audiences across the globe. As the immortal +Miles Davis said in his autobiography, "Herbie was +the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and I +haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him." +Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child +piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto +with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. After... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017542.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017542.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ceb80532610a8da356d5396e42fba4187e0b6c70 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017542.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The future has been shrinking by one year per year +for my entire life. This clock became the Clock of the Long +Now, a name invented by the songwriter and composer, +Brian Eno. Hillis wrote an article for Wired magazine +suggesting a clock that would last over 10,000 years. The project led directly to the founding of the Long Now +Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart +Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor. It will +be a gradual process, and that's been happening +This... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017543.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017543.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6a606e6b284d81759b1dfb57c3b5a9ac6c8fcbb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017543.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +BJARKE INGELS +QUINCY JONES +Bjarke Ingels started BIG Bjarke Ingels Group in 2005 after +co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA +in Rotterdam. Bjarke has received numerous awards and +honors, including the Danish Crown Prince's Culture Prize +in 2011, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, +and the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. In 2011, the Wall +Street Journal awarded Bjarke the Architectural Innovator +of the Year Award. In 2012, the American Institute of +Architects... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017544.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017544.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..983086ed5b8369337eeec522802937917f96d6a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017544.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense +of the word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the +roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, +arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record +company executive, magazine founder, multi-media +entrepreneur and humanitarian. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block- +named "Album Of The Year" at the 1990 Grammy Awards- +brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah +Vaughan and Miles Davis together... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017545.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017545.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..371968cde55f54e59d992c32f2dd566a9aac8749 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017545.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +In 2001, Quincy Jones added the title "Best +Selling Author" to his list of accomplishments when his +autobiography Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones entered +the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal +Best-Sellers lists. Released by Doubleday Publishing, the +critically acclaimed biography retells Jones' life story from +his days as an impoverished youth on the Southside of +Chicago through a massively impressive career in music, +film and television where he worked beside... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017546.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017546.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ed537a34b7fe86d64f2060d5b5bb2700ebfbb62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017546.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +MARY JORDAN +Mary Catherine Jordan (born November 10, 1960) is a Pulitzer +Prize-winning American journalist for the Washington Post. With her husband, Post journalist Kevin Sullivan, Jordan +ran the newspaper's bureaus in Tokyo, Mexico City and +London. She graduated from +Georgetown University in 1983 and earned a master's +degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of +Journalism in 1984. Currently, Jordan moderates many high-profile +forums for the Washington Post including the "The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017547.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017547.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f656c5b7cff4a9823026016cdd32c530318fb323 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017547.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950) is an American +film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation. He +is perhaps most known for his period as chairman of The +Walt Disney Studios when Disney produced some of its +biggest hits, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the +Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. As a founder and CEO +of DreamWorks Animation, he has overseen the production +of such animated franchises as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu +Panda, Monsters vs. Katzenberg began his career as an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017548.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017548.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fabd73ce8302aeac02040d7d4ee142aad8ed1660 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017548.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +All in the Family +was followed by a succession of other television hit shows +90 +Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film, +and as a political and social activist and philanthropist. Lear began his television writing career in 1950 +when he and his partner, Ed Simmons, were signed to write +for the The Ford Star Revue, starring Jack Haley. After only +four shows, they were hired away by Jerry Lewis to write for +the Martin and Lewis Colgate Comedy Hour, which they +continued to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017549.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017549.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5ea0daafea09dadbef1367abb209b8d5cd864fb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017549.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Ma established +the Silk Road Project, a nonprofit arts and educational +organization. Under his artistic direction, the Silk Road Project +presents performances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble, +engages in cross-cultural exchanges and residencies, leads +workshops for students, and partners with leading cultural +institutions to create educational materials and programs. In the 2011-2012 school year, +with ongoing partnerships with arts and educational +organizations in New York City, it continues... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017550.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017550.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2ccc7a3732f6e98342b45bc6d4e888e9841da4e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017550.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +JOHN MAEDA +IREMENT +XX +іід +E SHOT +se of Learning +Pays Dividends +Darati +Finnind +Ain +Team Performance Cur +STATE +HIGHER EDUCA +John Maeda (born 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is a +Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, +academic, and author. He is +the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. Maeda was originally a software engineering +student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when +he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel +Cooper. After... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017551.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017551.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edb828b4dbd637f2caf89443f8047316d75ef32e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017551.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +John Mazziotta is Chair of the Department of +Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, +and Director of the UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain +Mapping Center. After receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees +from Columbia University in 1972, he obtained an M.D. +and Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy and Computer Science from +Georgetown University in 1977. Mazziotta chairs one of the nation's largest +Neurology departments, which for nine of the last ten +years achieved the distinguished position of being first... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017552.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017552.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7987477d22c8f0a1789082e4a7e84b6ea83a6073 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017552.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Distinguished as an innovator of accessible +design, Todd Oldham is the founder of Todd Oldham Studio, +a multifaceted, full-service design studio based in NYC. Originally a New York fashion designer, the host +of "Todd Time" on MTV's House of Style, Todd's career has +evolved to include all areas of design, from interior design, +film and photography, to furniture and graphic design. Todd is currently working on his 19th book Charley +Harper's Animal Kingdom. His previous books include a 672- +page... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017553.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017553.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae8cadaa21624c62dafae80f57f60507d5e8df25 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017553.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +In 1998 Cristina Pato became the +first female Gaita player releasing a solo album and since then +she has collaborated with world music, jazz, classical and +experimental artists (including Chicago Symphony, Yo-Yo Ma, +The Chieftains, Arturo O'Farril, World Symphony Orchestra, +Paquito D'Rivera). Her dual careers have led to performances throughout major +stages throughout the world, including USA (Carnegie Hall, +Lincoln Center), India (Kamani Auditorium), Terusalem +(Jerusalem Festival), Angola,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017554.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017554.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96e95101e2243cd5d054b64fe5b26d5da8f11ee7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017554.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +STEVEN PINKER +CT Cl +72 +73 +Pinker +even +15 Banstea +intl +18-09-54 +Show this card when paying f +Montrez cette carte en payant le prix c +EXPIRATION: JUIN/JUI +Steven Pinker was born in 1954 in the English-speaking Jewish +community of Montreal,Canada. He earned a bachelor's +degree in experimental psychology at McGill University and +then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976, where he +has spent most of his career bouncing back and forth between +Harvard and MIT. He earned his doctorate at Harvard in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017555.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017555.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..194eb7aa964a71c4a1e5f6b7c1ab99fb41bfd435 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017555.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +LISA RANDALL +Professor Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics +and cosmology at Harvard University. Randall's +books, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's +Hidden Dimensions and Knocking on Heaven's Door: How +Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the +Modern World were both on The New York Times' list of 100 +Notable Books of the Year. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the +American Philosophical Society, the American Academy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017556.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017556.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0871af7295fdc07c8a605ffb87f34d75eb9b1a0a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017556.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Major projects by Safdie Architects currently under +construction or recently completed include Mamilla Alrov +Center, a dynamic urban center near the Old City in Jerusalem; +Marina Bay Sands, a mixed-use integrated resort in Singapore; +Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, the national museum +of the Sikh people in the Punjab, India; the United States +Institute of Peace Headquarters on the Mall in Washington, +D.C.; the National Campus for the Archeology of Israel in +Jerusalem; Golden Dream Bay, a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017557.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017557.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a66da1087838d6559788ff53a307c73be0b5842e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017557.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +MEGAN SMITH +BENEDIKT TASCHEN +Megan recently joined Google's advanced products team, +Benedikt Taschen, 1961, Cologne, Germany, is a German +Google [x], where she is working on range of projects including +publisher. His professional life started at age 18 in a +co-creating/hosting SolveForX, a forum to encourage and +250-square-foot (23 m) store in Cologne, Germany, named +amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork +TASCHEN COMICS. For nine years before that she +copies of a Magritte... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017558.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017558.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..616b7a553d15b1efcf5b0573a09e18b7cf5e4ee5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017558.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +JULIE TAYMOR +In 1998, Julie Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony® +Award for Best Direction of a Musical, and also won a Tony® +for Best Costumes, for her landmark production of The Lion +King. The musical has won three Molière Awards including +Best Musical and Best Costumes, garnered Drama Desk, +Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards for Taymor's +direction, and myriad awards for her original costume, mask +and puppet designs. Other theater work includes The Green +Bird, Titus... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017559.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017559.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2d0ab7ce0d9e74c5e13f807fb6b407886d34e0c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017559.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Genomics Inc (SGI), a privately held company dedicated +to commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address +global needs such as new sources of energy, new food and +nutritional products, and next generation vaccines. +of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 t0 1968. After earning both a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and a +Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of +California at San Diego, he was appointed professor at the State +University of New York at Buffalo and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017560.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017560.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b709b9775c347f4c046b1400eaf3e1f2e1a781b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017560.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Charity has +performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues +as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York +City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall +in Cleveland, Ohio; Il Giardino Di Boboli in Florence, Italy; +the National Palace of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary; the Tel +Aviv Opera House in Israel; the American Embassy in Beijing, +China; the United Nations in New York; and National Statuary +Hall in the United States Capitol. She has collaborated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017561.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017561.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3cfb00007ea191a70e65cefe540eb8b84196a95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017561.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Known for his +work with The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31 million +albums and 58 million singles worldwide, he also works +with some of the industry's biggest names including +Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Britney +Spears, David Guetta, and film composer Hans Zimmer. Frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas +william has released two songs from his upcoming solo +cd, #willpower on Interscope Records. The first two singles +from the cd released in 2012 are: "T.H.E (The Hardest... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017562.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017562.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98180834385db3a83a32db90e6050a29524ae058 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017562.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Williams (born Charles Kenneth Williams on November +2, 1936) is an American poet, critic and translator. Flesh and Blood +won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair +(1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National +Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book +Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and +in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He subsequently taught +at many other universities, including Columbia, NYU,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017563.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017563.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b04770e2b3ffc1c738b87d8f22c67894edf0a45e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017563.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +He has received two Pulitzer Prizes in general non-fiction +for his books On Human Nature (1979) and The Ants (1991); +the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of +Sciences; the International Prize of Biology of Japan; and the +Nonino and Serono Prizes for Letters and Sciences of Italy. He is the +author of 28 books including the recent novel, Anthill, set in +the woods of South Alabama; The Social Conquest of Earth; +the soon-to-be-released profile of his boyhood hometown, +Why We Are Here:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017566.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017566.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eeac1b3f80621c951563f331f708f121b5111005 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017566.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"Well, one thing I've always really enjoyed is making +things. It started with modeling as a kid, +building models. When computers came along, I started +learning programming and realizing the computer was this +great tool for making things, making models, dynamic models, +and behaviors, not just static models. You know, what is it, what kind of kind of world +does it live in, what's its purpose? What are you trying to do +with this thing that you're creating? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017567.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017567.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f7c0a1c5649ab1e7a4aae54554aa1c9e281f57ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017567.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Naturally, I moved on to a +party school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) +to search for a better social life. Then after some +aimless additional years in school I dropped out for three +years, working for the Air Force on nuclear winter computer +simulations and other cheery subjects. Returning to MIT, +learned my Doctorate and moved to Colorado to work at +the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on +bistatic radar networks, a new type of weather radar system +that I had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017568.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017568.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8709bd543dca332f5f2ac0610051982e57f1b420 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017568.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +TELEPRESENCE CONVERSATIONS TENTATIVE +MAO YUSHI +Chinese economist, 2012 Milton Friedman Liberty Award. +(He wrote an online column criticizing the communist +and totalitarian policies of Mao Zedong (Chairman +Mao) in China, attacked by Maoists in China.) +http://www.cato.org/special/friedman/yushi/index.html +YAO MING +Retired Chinese basketball player who last played +for the Houston Rockets of NBA; investor. TAN DUN +Grawemeyer, Oscar, and Grammy awarding winning +Chinese contemporary classical... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017569.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017569.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01956da355fbc1e70ea234a2facdf31a57101b5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017569.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +RICHARD SAUL WURMAN +Described by Fortune magazine as an "intellectual hedonist" +with a "hummingbird mind," Richard Saul Wurman +seeks ways to make the complex clear. In doing so he has continually sought to put himself +in the presence of extraordinary people, including (all now +all deceased), Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Jonas Salk, +Eva Zeisel, Louis I. Kahn, Charles Eames, Frank Stanton and +Schuyler van Renssalaer Cammann, and Arnold Toynbee. As a result, Wurman has had many lives: as an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017570.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017570.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dc32b7889ab0dcb0beadc50f00fb8ddfb3d9b83 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017570.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Anxiety, Follow the Yellow Brick Road) and in medicine (6 +books on healthcare and creator and chairman of TEDMED, +1995-2010), and as a conference convener. The acknowledged father of Information +Architecture, Wurman has written, designed and published 83 +books on a range of topics, while creating conferences and new +mapping projects. The +first featured models of so world cities all constructed on a +uniform scale, the other was the first book to be written on +Louis Kahn. His latest book... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017571.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017571.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8335c09a3262c1927286cee7903a05a370123fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017571.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Several of you have asked 'well what are the new +guidelines as they relate to the WWW Conference'? +1 Participants have all been sent the schedule +listing the person with whom they have +been paired, attached again below. +2 If you go to the participants page on the web +site, you can click on that person's name and link +to his or her biographical information. +3 I have developed a list of 30 different premises or +postulations that will begin you in improvised conversation. +4 I have tried this and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017572.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017572.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc4797edb8c036826ec5ccb1e4fc7d0588f98ce0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017572.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +wWW +wwW +THANKS & TEAM +HOST +ESRI +SPONSORS +GE +WILLIAM R. 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HEWCOMERENCE.COM +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017573 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017574.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017574.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..449cb7cf4d846765c4b4edd943ed7a372e49c911 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017574.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Lisa Randall +11/28/2012 4:17:19 PM +Jeffrey Epstein lieevacation@gmail.coml +Fwd: Invite to Dialog 2014 (16 months away) +Importance: High +Is this worthwhile? +subject: original Me sae +Invite +to Dialog +Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:05:58 -0800 +2014 (16 months away) +Auren Hoffman +Dear Fouad, +Dear Lisa Ï2k +You are invited to join us at Dialog 2014 -- a two-day bipartisan +retreat discussing how to change the world. And we design the agenda around your +ideas and needs. +please let us know... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017575.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017575.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c16d7d0aa23f9fb91469eacc2cd9638dd2417ca7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017575.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Dialog participantsi ¿½ +/i¿½ partial list of people who will be participating in the 2013 Dialog +Retreat (all are references): / +Peron de allende or are ds Faundid Advanced Techi logines uments. ch, +Nutrition, Mercado Libre, ISmart Foundation. Athey"-- Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Chiet +Economist, Microsoft. 2007 Winner of John Bates. Clark Medal +Auguste-- Director and Head of social Sector Office, McKinsey +lope Street Group.Boards: William and Flora Hewlet +oundation; Pacific... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017576.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017576.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3146979d8986b261efd37cd1d9e34ba6607ae7d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017576.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Fmr Director, Office of Management and Budget +i2½ President, Purdue University. Lanny Davis-- FmrSpecial Counsel to the President (under +Clinton) .Author of Scandal and The Emerging Democratic Majority. Ken Denmani¿½ CEO, Machine Perception Technologies. Fmr CEO, Auraserv Communications. Marc Eckoi¿½ Chief Creative Officer, Marc Ecko Enterprises. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017577.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017577.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75d19f65e755891e0a1996397a9dd4a9066be2a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017577.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +David Kamenetzky| 2½ Group Head, Mars & Co. Andy Karsneri¿½ CEO, Manifest Energy. Asst Sec of Energy for +Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy +(2005-2009). Fmr Managing +Director, Enercorp. Garry Kasporovi¿½ Fmr World Chess Champion. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017578.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017578.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5498124c424b65346e89abca6a7a8fe4fe97713 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017578.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +CarDomain, +Flixster, Focus, Kixeye, Kongregate, LivingSocial, Playdom, +RockYou, +ShoeDazzle, and others. Doreen Lorenzo 2½ President, Frog +Design. Bob Luskin-- Partner and Co-Chair of Litigation Dept, +Patton +Boggs. Fmr Chief Counsel to +the Organized Crime & Racketeering Section of DOJ . John Maedai¿½ President, Rhode Island School of Design. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017579.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017579.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a3eaf04504231386994aff981e2736bca882dc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017579.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +house-oversight-017579 + +Mark Penni ¿½ Corp VP of Strategic Projects (reports to the CEO), +Microsoft. President, +Schoen ard Berland, surate, ste thief sesadegist, hillary clinton tor +President 2008. Fmr pollster to President Clinton. Emr pollster to Prime Minister Tony +Lois Quam12/ Executive Director, Global Health Initiative 122 part of the +State Department and she reports +directly to Secretary Clinton. Fmr CEO +of Public and Senior Markets, UnitedHealth Group ($30 billion division). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017580.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017580.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..817661edd2c001be50ae87ec6924ce9733a16f92 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017580.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +house-oversight-017580 + +Paul Wolpei ¿½ Director +Center of Ethics. Co-Editor, American Journal of Bioethics. +of Bioethics, Emory. Sr +Jed Yorki¿½ CEO of San Francisco 49ers. Lauren Zalaznicki¿½ Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and +Integrated Media, NBCUniversal. She oversees Bravo +, Oxygen Media, Style, +PBS Sprout, Telemundo, iVillage, Swirl, Daily Candy, and Fandango. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017581.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017581.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6bf133a1b429f8c79fb045da8336ee783664442 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017581.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +11/28/2012 5:28:55 PM +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Re: Invite to Dialog 2014 (16 months away) +Importance: +High +So let me understand. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry +From: Jeffrey Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> +Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:28:51 -0500 +To: Lisa Randall™ +Subject: Re: Invite to Dialog 2014 (16 months away) +sundance is nice » go +On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Lisa Randall - +Is this worthwhile? +wrote: +-- Original Message... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017582.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017582.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6451419f274fc6321513eaeb7d580b4993bd97bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017582.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Dates: March 13-15, 2014 +Location: Sundance Resort, Utah (40 minutes from the Salt Lake City airport) +/We've rented out the entire resort/ +Register at: +http://dialog2014.eventbrite.com +password: dialog2014 +You qualify for a significant discount on the retreat fee. On the registration page, click on the link that says +'Enter promotional code' and enter: +AcademicDialoger +/note: the invite is only for Lisa Randall and is not transferable as we are limited to only 150 participants. Dialog... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017583.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017583.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b1b8f3a73965f41b44fdccafd3760055d3af0b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017583.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +house-oversight-017583 + +Nicolas Berggruen-- President, Berggruen Holdings. Elizabeth Blackburn- Prof of Biology and Physiology, UCSF. 2009 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine. President, American Association of Cancer Research. David Bonderman- Founding Partner, Texas Pacific Group (TPG). Boards: Continental Airlines, Bowe Bell & Howell, Ducati Motorcycles, Credicom Asia, National Education +Corp, Beringer Wine, Carr Reality, Virgin Cinemas, CoStar Group, GemAlto, RyanAir Holdings,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017584.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017584.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24ed72dc192ffd7f021a44696166e9f79ef1de61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017584.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-017584 + +Juan Enriquez - CEO, Biotechonomy. Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project, Harvard Business +School. Boards: Cabot Corp, Craig Venter Institute. Fmr CEO, Mexico City 's Urban Development +Corporation. Author of /The World's Banker: The History of the House of +Rothschild/,/The Cash Nexus/,/Empire, Colossus//The War of the World, The Ascent of Money/, and others. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017585.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017585.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bbb3c57cd1abd2cc02f60573ad7a8a32a5869e97 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017585.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-017585 + +Daisuke Iwase- cofounder and COO, Lifenet Insurance (top life insurance company in Japan). Christian Johansson- Secretary of Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), State of +Maryland. Fmr CEO, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore. David Kamenetzky- Group Head, Mars & Co. Asst Sec of Energy for Energy Efficiency and +Renewable Energy (2005-2009). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017586.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017586.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ce3e83eec7fc706cff67c379dc4d0e137bc4252 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017586.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-017586 + +Jenna Lee- Anchor, Fox News. Host, /Happening Now/ on Fox News. Jorge Lemann- Fmr Owner, AmBev (largest brewery in Latin America) and now one of the largest +shareholders in Anheuser-Busch InBev. Boards: Lojas Americanas, Gillette, Swiss Re, Burger King. Jonathan Levin- Prof and Chair of Dept of Economics, Stanford. 2011 Winner of the John Bates Clark +Medal. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017587.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017587.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64eeb57c63e298e86474115b96fe72013ffeecf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017587.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-017587 + +Chris Michel- GP, Nautilus Ventures. Boards: International Data Group, Dale Carnegie, Kixeye, CastlightHealth, +USO, MarineCorps University Foundation. Katie Mitic - Fmr Head of Platform Marketing, Facebook. Fmr VP Product Strategy, +Yahoo! Fmr +Director of Information Operations, 82nd Airborne Division, US Army, Afghanistan 2005-2006. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017588.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017588.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e884e50c46f46d386f80c396d4013b90f15130a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017588.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Ken Sawyer-- CEO, Saints Ventures (manages over $1 billion in capital). Boards: Continuous Computing, HK Systems, Cleargauge, Travel Intelligence, Envivio, Alliance Consulting, +Acsis and Laureate Pharmaceuticals. Jessica Schell- EVP BD and Strategic Planning, Universal Pictures. Fmr SVP Digital Strategy and Business +Development, NBC Universal. Josh Silverman- President of US Consumer Services, American Express. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017589.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017589.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b1ecb7ee23c44bdd7010732110b5d9435ccbb19d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017589.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-017589 + +Lauren Zalaznick - Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, NBCUniversal. She +oversees Bravo, Oxygen Media, Style, PBS Sprout, Telemundo, iVillage, Swirl, Daily Candy, and Fandango. Fmr Sr Partner, Apollo +Management. Boards: Central European Media Enterprises, Dish TV India. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg- fmr Minister of Defense, Germany. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017590.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017590.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a07a3b1c606e758b31c678ca5460915d8623d2c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017590.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +jeffrey E. ljeevacation@gmail.com] +7/4/2017 4:53:13 PM +Weingarten, Reid | +Re: Fw: The new iterations of Ghislaine Maxwell +Importance: +High +On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:46 PM Weingarten, Reid 1 +Number? From: +Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 12:49 PM +To: | +Cc: Ainbanklaw Info; +wrote: +Patrick M. Regan; +Denyse Sabagh; +Michael Baxter; +• Robert Barnett; Weingarten, Reid; +Ellen Kerns; +Subject: Re: The new iterations of Ghislaine Maxwell +We know of course that Saturdays are reserved... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017591.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017591.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c09e5948db33b5c606762d9aff425fd2f97fea03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017591.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"Toward a New World Order" speech by Pres. One of those would be the Halloween Massacre. The older people remember the Saturday +Night Massacre which happened under Nixon. I'm talking about the Halloween Massacre of October +31, 1975, and probably people watching this show have never heard of it. Bush who then went on to authorize something that Colby had refused to +authorize - the Team B report - the Team B to recalculate the Soviet threat and it was pre- +determined. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017592.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017592.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50fb22eaee92f71660d75900e2c654888329cce4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017592.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Well there are the legitimate roots that go back to fear of an atomic +decapitation of the government back in the Truman era, so legitimate COG planning goes back to +Truman and Eisenhower, but the illegitimate use of COG to deal with any emergnecy you like, that +goes to the Reagan administration and it really goes back to the [Halloween] Massacre where +Rumsfeld and Cheney put their thumbprint on American politics for the first time. +- interview of Peter Dale Scott, @ min.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017593.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017593.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c47ee4e42ac17aee69fd2e8666ed08d47132070 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017593.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As for Scalia's passing, it was decidedly +suspicious as noted by William Ritchie: (The Washington Post prints) "As a former homicide +commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia," William O. Ritchie, former +head of criminal investigations for D.C. police, wrote in a post on Facebook on Sunday... My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas." +As for SAIC, the following also pertains: +(| write) "If you first see SAIC as what's called a systems integrator... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017594.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017594.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24fdf751258776a2048fa29c0ab2a48d8e70295e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017594.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +(4) and that the award Bud Horton helped secure just as Sue's contract was coming to an end was +not only born from what looks like Franklin Scandal compromises, but it is this contract that seems +intent on implementing bioterrorism as the new form of explosive terrorism." +(Note that both members of this family were awarded BILLION dollar contracts; that's quite +exceptional, no?) +As for terrorism as an US industry, it's hardly better seen than through the following which is +information of course... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017595.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017595.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8d77308bcce46d2217ebd1a34493eddea6e9f68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017595.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, whose presence in the +United States was concealed from the FBI by ClA officers for months before 9/11. In reality, as I shall show, royal family +protection from Qatar and Saudi Arabia (concealed by the 9/11 Commission) was repeatedly given +to key figures like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "principal architect of the 9/11 attacks." The +establishment claims that the wars fought by America in Asia since 9/11 have been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017596.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017596.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06e939a632ed11bb4b25a620606a22be72a85eb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017596.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +perpetration of an attack.) I just tweeted this morning actually the following in regards to US +coordinations with the Russians: "One must know a renowned Rus mafiaso was granted entry +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav Ivankov#Moving to the United States ... be4 the real +story of today's US-Rus relations is slowly known" in response to the following comment +@turndeaux: Peter Dale Scott, who writes about the Deep State, says Russia issue is "a bona fide +security issue, not a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017597.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017597.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3303ea65b3fa196822dbe0610bfea1b776470e30 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017597.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As you may know, she was once close with an individual named Matthew Horton with whom she +attended George Mason University, and through Matthew, Ms. Simms became well-acquainted with +Matthew's parents Henry "Bud" Horton and Sue Popovich Horton who helped secure her a position +at IBM upon her graduation from GMU. Both of these latter individuals (Bud and Sue Horton) were +involved in the 2007 murder of my son, and they in collusion with their son Matthew continue in the +exploitation of children... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017598.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017598.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4eb39e045c8e562cb8ee9fce73d83571697d0bf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017598.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The story of this sabotage and what followed is (briefly) this: +I've long-alleged that John and Avery Gunther (whose children I used to babysit) agreed to a quid +pro quo exchange of financial compensation for help destroying my credibility on behalf of IBM +against whom I'd filed a 2010 EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) charge and a +subsequent May 2011 civil suit. Per the May 11, 2011 Complaint, McGuire V. On April 6, 2011 Mr. and Mrs Gunther, with uncontrolled greed and total... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017599.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017599.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a868082877f95dfdb56db5a925dc019cf92cfda5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017599.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +IBM, et al, Case No.: 1:11CV528, US District Court of +Virginia - Eastern Division, Alexandria, Judge Leonie Brinkema presiding +This is to say that John and Avery Gunther helped IBM defend against an allegation of murder, and +in this way they are accomplices to a cover-up. This is also to say that the characterization provided +by John and Avery Gunther in their April 2011 Superior Court filing for a Protection Order against me +and their admissions in this filing of having provided derogatory... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017600.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017600.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..922a4f6a2e219760613ab4ab9e7a9d270186bacd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017600.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +military/security companies in state courts "because the comprehensive regulatory scheme enacted +by Congress and the President grant military contractors like Blackwater immunity from state-court +litigation." (pp. 234-235, Blackwater). (Author Ken Davis writes) "The four men had spent the night +before they set off at marine base Camp Fallujah. Had they spoken to the marines, the Blackwater team might have learned that the +Americans were already in the midst of a major offensive meant to assert... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017601.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017601.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c3d54570ca18a18875aa5f15895d4c8a932ee02 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017601.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Beach and personally financed the formation of Blackwater Worldwide in 1997. He bought 6,000 +acres (24 km2) of the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and set up a school for special +operations" (Wikipedia) +Erik Prince is (becoming) no less an Amer. intelligence success story than bin Laden (in support of +Terrorism as Geostrategy & a New World Order - see below). In short: (we note the repeating 9/11s, +every 11 years): "Toward a NWO" speech by Bush #41 - Sept. 11 ('90); The WTC - Sept. 11... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017602.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017602.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d54a032c8cf555cea868ea2e3f89a1a7d52a39d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017602.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +the people who were, you know, doing these interrogations, because the logic, which I think Mark +had mentioned, is, you know, this circular logic. So long as there are trained psychologists from +the SERE program who are on site at these interrogations who are saying that these detainees can +withstand this treatment, are not being harmed psychologically, then it's not torture. So, you know, +you've got this sort of [inaudible] tortured - tortured logic, which is the phrase that has come up,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017603.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017603.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..185a3eb5c04d7683d2b6ee17e934d16e9a09573f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017603.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +LexisNexis® +User Name: DAVID SCHOEN +Date and Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:26:00 AM EST +Job Number: 83852792 +Document (1) +1. CRIMINAL LAW: CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS DURING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS? APPLYING THE +CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS ACT BEFORE CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE FILED, 104 J. L. & Criminology +59 +Client/Matter: -None- +Search Terms: cvra and sixth amendment +Search Type: Terms and Connectors +Narrowed by: +Content Type +Secondary Materials +Narrowed by +Sources: Law Reviews and Journals +'LexisNexis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017604.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017604.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0798955d3b6204067d1eadeacfd4b208ea99b942 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017604.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law, S.J. Associate, Snow, Christensen & Martineau (Salt Lake City, Utah). Partner, Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.). The authors thank Douglas Beloof, +Patricia Cassell, Meg Garvin, Jay Howell, James Marsh, and Stephen Twist for their assistance with this Article. Highlight +This Article addresses whether crime victims should have rights during criminal investigations, using the Crime Victims' +Rights Act (CVRA) as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017605.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017605.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7291d0fac1de37427be284a289277949db8fc222 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017605.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 59 +[611 +Introduction +In recent years, federal and state enactments have given crime victims extensive rights to participate in criminal cases. As one example, the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) ' extends to federal crime victims the right to "confer" with +prosecutors. But can victims exercise this right before charges have been filed? In 2010, the Department of +Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) weighed in on the issue and released a legal opinion arguing that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017606.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017606.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e681e990e1a4aafd41060d15bf6ebee4d79496f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017606.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 62 +Part II reviews the CVRA's purpose, text, structure, and legislative history. The Department's proffered arguments do not withstand close scrutiny, particularly in light of the fact that the CVRA covers +federal agencies involved in the "detection" and "investigation" of crime, +4 and specifically authorizes crime victims to file +CVRA motions in situations where "no prosecution is underway." S +Part IV then proposes a specific approach for determining when crime victims'... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017607.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017607.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..329e27734ef317523a3cde5b59fb623622cb549c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017607.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The recommendations were designed to allow crime victims to receive information about, and to participate in, criminal cases. +11 +In its most far-reaching recommendation, the Task Force proposed amending the U.S. Constitution to protect victims' rights. +12 +The proposed amendment would have built on existing constitutional rights for criminal defendants by extending similar rights +to crime victims. +13 +After the publication of the report, crime victims' advocates secured the passage of a series of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017608.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017608.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d1c6f9bf9d41e8ee5fba20703ec7dca5093e01c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017608.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 65 +encompassing" +statutory victims' bill of rights. 21 Victims' advocates sought to expand on the protections found in other +previously-enacted victims' rights statutes, including, notably, the Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990. 22 That statute +had also included a bill of rights for crime victims, yet because of limited enforcement mechanisms, crime victims had been +unable to secure court protection of the rights listed in the statute. 23 +The statute that Congress... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017609.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017609.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5738f20745f43a45e4f78cebf102e19cbf04a8c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017609.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Through +the CVRA, Congress intended to make victims "independent participants" in the criminal justice process. +33 The CVRA +extends to crime victims a series of "rights" in the criminal justice process - rights that the victims have |67] independent +standing to assert. 34 Congress viewed these provisions as establishing a victim's right "to participate in the process where the +Congress appears to have had both intrinsic and instrumental reasons for wanting crime victim participation. District... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017610.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017610.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c65070cdc5d43a412c00daa3b1b99f8c31180ef4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017610.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 68 +developed considerable evidence that Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire with extensive political and social connections, 41 had +sexually molested more than thirty young girls between 2001 and 2007 at his West Palm Beach mansion. 42 The U.S. Attorney's Office entered into contentious plea negotiations with Epstein over how the case should be resolved. After entering those guilty pleas, +Epstein was sentenced to only eighteen months in state jail. 44 No federal charges were... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017611.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017611.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63d5b310846d610792e8c9b171ec966c18522cea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017611.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +THE CVRA'S PURPOSES +An analysis of the CVRA's application before prosecutors have filed charges must begin by assessing the CVRA's purposes +because any interpretation of the CVRA that is divorced from the statute's purposes would run the risk of defeating the statute's +aims. It is axiomatic that courts should "give faithful meaning to the language Congress adopted in the light of the evident +legislative purpose in enacting the law in question." 49 +As discussed above, +SO one important goal of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017612.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017612.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e7f5e3684d5abee8f2cf623c7c68e644073e030 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017612.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 71 +a sound basis for interpretation. +54 But the CVRA's plain language makes clear that Congress intended for the law to provide at +least some rights to crime victims throughout the criminal justice process, even before the filing of criminal charges. According to its text, the CVRA provides eight specifically enumerated rights for crime victims and an additional right to be +reasonably notified of these rights. 55 Some of these rights presuppose the formal filing of criminal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017613.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017613.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b0715af41cd12bf8312bd03e07337d2e8c72341b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017613.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Perhaps the leading case to date to assess this question is the Fifth Circuit's decision in In re Dean. 63 There, a wealthy +corporate criminal defendant reached a generous plea deal with the Government - a deal that the Government filed for approval +with the district court without conferring with the victims. Citing procedural rights under the CVRA, the victims requested that +the trial court reject the plea agreement. +64 The District Court for the Southern District of Texas specifically... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017614.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017614.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cde06805b2109216080bfaa58815a1ddd930e0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017614.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Similarly, in United States v. Oakum, 72 the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia considered a claim that CVRA +rights did not apply until after a defendant had been convicted. In rejecting that argument, the court agreed with the Dean court +that victims acquire rights even before a prosecution begins. +73 +The District Court for the Northern District of Indiana held to the same effect in In re Petersen. +74 There, the court held that a +victim's right to be treated with fairness and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017615.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017615.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3cd91fd962eb7fc482f55f02c847dd3bdfbdd16d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017615.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Justice Department's Unpersuasive Position +Despite the CVRA's broad remedial purposes, its expansive language referring to investigations, and the unanimous case law +extending rights to victims prior to defendants being charged, the OLC released a memorandum in 2011 concluding that CVRA +rights attach only "from the time that criminal proceedings are initiated (by complaint, information, or indictment)." 82 OLC's +analysis is unpersuasive. The Department routinely makes such determinations at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017616.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017616.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..969d90e28d93bee8e3b624397f15fc6dc45e7e25 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017616.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 77 +the VRRA, the Justice Department must inform victims of federal crimes of services that are available to them, including +"emergency medical and social services," counseling, and support. 91 The Department is further obligated to keep victims fully +informed about "the status of the investigation of the crime, to the extent it is appropriate to inform the victim and to the extent +that it will not interfere with the investigation." 92 These rights to notice about "emergency... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017617.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017617.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4954ed7e88d715c7fc51eff53202c2f477aef6b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017617.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The +full sentence reads: "While the offense charged against a defendant can [79] serve as a basis for identifying a "crime victim' +as defined in the CVRA, the class of victims with statutory rights may well be broader." 107 +Paletz and Skinner similarly provide scant support for the Department's position. In Skinner, a prison inmate attempted to bring +a pro se civil suit against another inmate for allegedly attacking him during incarceration. 108 In dismissing the suit in an +unpublished... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017618.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017618.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af882243ed2a7d3fa3e9ee8837f8db7b4b5a589b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017618.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 80 +that "most courts ... have declined to extend enforceable rights under the CVRA to alleged victims of conduct that did not lead +to criminal proceedings." 115 All the courts that have actually reached the issue have concluded exactly the opposite. 116 +B. Indeed, OLC appears to recognize that at least three of the rights listed in the CVRA could easily apply before charges are filed: +(1) the "right to be reasonably protected from the accused"; (2) the "reasonable right to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017619.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017619.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2872cd6a6d44458d3ee83f6f7d128028b2400590 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017619.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +With +regard to the CVRA provision that victims have the "reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the Government in the +case," 124 OLC contends that "the phrase "in the case' implies the pendency of a judicial proceeding." 125 To bolster its +conclusion, OLC then cites Black's Law Dictionary, which includes among its several definitions of the word "case" the +definition "a civil or criminal proceeding." 126 But OLC does not acknowledge that Black's Law Dictionary also defines... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017620.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017620.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46031227fb370d51197ed3b1511d421261e356f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017620.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Shortly after +shepherding the CVRA through the Congress, Senator Kyl cowrote a law review article about the Act. 136 In that article, he +directly indicated that the CVRA applies before charges are filed. For example, the right to be treated with fairness, the +right to be reasonably protected from the accused (who may qualify as the accused before his arrest), and the right to be treated +with respect for the victim's dignity and privacy each may arise without regard to the existence of legal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017621.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017621.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fc991f893c5140b9818fbd1fe06118737d76cda3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017621.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 84 +which a defendant will plead guilty to certain charges. 145 Then, the parties jointly present to the district court a criminal +"information" (that is, a recitation of the charges drafted by the prosecutor but never presented to the grand jury 146) and a plea +agreement, asking the court to file the criminal information and simultaneously accept the guilty plea. As the OLC +memorandum acknowledges, a crime victim would have the right to object to the plea agreement, because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017622.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017622.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8a5125127715f25ee695237af93c3c00e348455 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017622.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 85 +emphasized that it conferred a "broad" [86] right. 155 The reason for adopting such a broad right was that "too often victims +of crime experience a secondary victimization at the hands of the criminal justice system. This provision is intended to direct +Government agencies and employees, whether they are in the executive or judiciary branch, to treat victims of crime with the +respect they deserve." 156 OLC's failure to consider the purposes underlying the CVRA is a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017623.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017623.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20f67b416dad93e33cb2eaf762db9108d45226a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017623.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 87 +Given this continuing active role that agents typically play during criminal prosecutions, we find the fact that the CVRA assigns +responsibility to them, together with the attorney for the Government, to ... accord them their rights under the CVRA to be +entirely consistent with our conclusion that those rights arise only once the Government has initiated criminal proceedings. 163 +But OLC's contorted position never explains why Congress found it necessary to break out... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017624.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017624.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4b06838dea3fed72bc539da9377ddd8185de297 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017624.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Even limiting the focus to felony cases, OLC misleadingly describes the Sixth Amendment case law. The Amendment also extends, for example, a right to a +speedy trial in all criminal "prosecutions." 172 The case law on the speedy trial right makes clear that the right "may attach +before an indictment and as early as the time of arrest and holding to answer a criminal charge." 173 +In any event, the right to counsel cases are quite clear in providing that a Sixth Amendment "prosecution" can (and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017625.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017625.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8585d5dc6730602c87030ec0a455c87372dbdd27 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017625.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 90 +instance, has noted that if there are any doubts about how to construe the CVRA, this venue provision "sweeps them away." 181 +Once again, the language that Congress used leads inexorably to the conclusion that the CVRA extends rights to victims before +the filing of criminal charges. When Pre-charging Rights Attach Under the CVRA +The zeal with which OLC argues against applying CVRA rights before charging raises the question of why it protests so much. This approach... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017626.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017626.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d52d612f8f2141c76ced60f68d8e3c26ed732367 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017626.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When such a target is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury, the Department of Justice will advise that target of his rights, +such as the right to refuse to answer any question that might be incriminating. +188 The Department of Justice defines a "target" +of a criminal investigation as "a person as to whom the prosecutor or the grand jury has substantial evidence linking him or her +to the commission of a crime and who, in the judgment of the prosecutor, is a putative defendant." 189 +If the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017627.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017627.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45726e3189656f70641a23d6071670ea83607ee4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017627.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 93 +In 2006, Epstein's acts of abuse came to the attention of the Palm Beach Police Department, which began investigating the case. +195 At this point, once again, the victims would not have had rights under the proposed CVRA test. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. In 2007, the Office +contacted counsel for Jeffrey Epstein and began negotiating a resolution of the case against him. 198 +Under our proposed test, the victims would not have had CVRA rights... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017628.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017628.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fc3b7763932dff40963cf3e2ad340c67234024a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017628.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 95 +rights until after the time "when criminal proceedings are initiated by complaint, information, or indictment." 202 The +Department, however, provides hortatory guidance that Justice Department employees shall make "best efforts" to notify crime +victims about their CVRA rights "as early in the criminal justice process as is feasible and appropriate." 203 +Of greater interest, however, is the Department's mandatory policy regarding notification regarding crime victim... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017629.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017629.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66ec1dd2e7e39846c3640339171a3ec3ac24ab92 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017629.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 96 +In view of the Department's existing notifications and provision of services before charges are filed under the VRRA, it is hard +to conceive how any viable claim could be made that it would be difficult to provide similar rights under the CVRA. The four +rights that would be potentially in play before charging would be the right to reasonable protection, the right to fair treatment, +and the right to confer with prosecutors, along with the predicate right to notice of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017630.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017630.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..093878d13695bcb4362b0239758de7c2f8a03812 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017630.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 98 +Notably, while the strength of these rights varies from state to state, +220 nearly forty states require the prosecuting attorney to +notify or confer with the victim regarding plea negotiations. 221 +Several jurisdictions involve the victim in the charging +decision. +222 In some states, law enforcement and prosecutors must involve the victim at any "critical" 223 or "crucial" +224 +stage of the criminal proceeding; and in a minority of jurisdictions, the judge must ascertain... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017631.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017631.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26fe999d6def38213851451120480f422bf77613 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017631.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 99 +advise the victim about any plea negotiations. 233 Interestingly, however, the Hawaii legislature defined "major developments" +as "arrest or release of the suspect by the police, case deferral by the police, referral to the prosecutor by the police, rejection of +the case by the prosecutor, preliminary hearing date, grand jury date, trial and sentencing dates, and the disposition of the case." +234 The usage of the term "case" and the plain language of the provisions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017632.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017632.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d828de2d290bd3f4712d5692d6c23f737c631717 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017632.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For example, Louisiana constrains the conferral right to criminal matters "in which formal charges have been filed by +the district attorney's office." 245 Yet, unlike the federal CVRA, this statute specifically excludes pre-charging situations. And, +in any event, despite Louisiana's limitation on a particular right within the statute, the legislature in this state still often saw fit +to provide the victim with notification rights, even in the absence of the formal filing of charges. +246 +Very... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017633.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017633.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd83c371994c0c33b9d33b56593d30bf9b5affad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017633.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 102 +In other words, while few state judiciaries have addressed the precise timing of state crime victims' rights, those that have +addressed the question have typically found that the rights do extend to pre-charging situations. Despite the relative dearth of state court cases, it is worth noting that most state statutes unequivocally provide for notification +rights early in the criminal process. 251 For example, the Illinois statute imposes a limited duty on law enforcement... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017634.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017634.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99181c52a50246dbc851e1f537eafba3ae52a4f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017634.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +L. & Criminology 59, 103 +Copyright (c) 2014 Northwestern University, School of Law +Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology +End of Document +DAVID SCHOEN +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017634 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017635.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017635.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc362f578af5dabc4c5747b2c898843df499376c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017635.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +LexisNexis® +User Name: DAVID SCHOEN +Date and Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:27:00 AM EST +Job Number: 83852897 +Document (1) +1. ARTICLE: Treating Crime Victims Fairly: Integrating Victims into the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, +2007 Utah L. Rev. 861 +Client/Matter: -None- +Search Terms: cvra and sixth amendment +Search Type: Terms and Connectors +Narrowed by: +Content Type +Secondary Materials +Narrowed by +Sources: Law Reviews and Journals +'LexisNexis | About LexisNexis | Privacy Policy |... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017636.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017636.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb11fbd74a9024e2d086911789c9d3c605c20530 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017636.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ARTICLE: Treating Crime Victims Fairly: Integrating Victims into the Federal Rules of +Criminal Procedure +2007 +Reporter +2007 Utah L. Rev. 861 +Length: 59852 words +Author: Paul G. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah, Judge, U.S. Thanks to Sara Sun Beale, Doug Beloof, Doug Berman, Russell Butler, Matt Cannon, Meg Garvin, Nancy King, Erik +Luna, Peter McCabe, Benjamin McMurray, Ross McPhail, Dan Medwed, Wendy Murphy, Daphne Oberg, Jim Oleson, Judge +James Orenstein, Alice Ristroph, Greg... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017637.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017637.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9ed5919f5158a04192ac3e402d41f2516cf8b61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017637.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 863 +as I argued at length in an earlier article. 4 After receiving my suggested changes, the Advisory Committee agreed with some, +but declined to adopt many of the others. At issue for the Advisory Committee was whether to proceed narrowly by changing +only a few rules to track specific congressional directives or to proceed more broadly by reworking the entire body of federal +criminal rules to ensure that they are all fair to crime victims. The Committee opted for the narrower... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017638.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017638.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e70cee4da8f13f6b15b816c918657a3e2d6034f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017638.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The Crime Victims' Rights Movement +The Crime Victims' Rights Movement developed in the 1970s because of a perceived imbalance in the criminal justice system. The victims' absence from criminal processes conflicted with "a public sense of justice keen enough that ... it has found voice +in a nationwide "victims' rights' movement." 6 Victims advocates argued that the criminal justice system had become +preoccupied with defendants' rights to the exclusion of considering the legitimate interests of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017639.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017639.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37f0b2dc1f89af358e037a07586000da76257b88 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017639.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 866 +The Crime Victims' Rights Movement was also able to prod the federal system to recognize victims' rights. In 1982, Congress +passed the first federal victims' rights legislation, the Victim and Witness Protection Act, which gave victims the right to make +an impact statement at sentencing and provided expanded restitution. I4 Since then, Congress has passed several acts that +further protected victims' rights, including the Victims of Crime Act of 1984, 15 the Victims' Rights and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017640.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017640.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58dcea03b4bc1880f58840942f129eb1ad2b78d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017640.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +In their view, such statutes "frequently fail to provide meaningful protection whenever they come into conflict +with bureaucratic habit, traditional indifference, [or] sheer inertia." 28 As the Justice Department reported: +Efforts to secure victims' rights through means other than a constitutional amendment have proved less than fully adequate. These significant state efforts simply are not sufficiently consistent, comprehensive, or +authoritative to safeguard victims' rights. 29 +To place... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017641.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017641.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5fac52d7d0d37c5b5f35586dc013dfe01829c8c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017641.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +On April 15, 2002, Senators Kyl and +Feinstein again introduced the amendment. 45 The following day, President Bush announced his support. 46 On May 1, 2002, +a companion measure was proposed in the House. 47 On January 7, 2003, Senators Kyl and Feinstein proposed the amendment +as Senate Joint Resolution 1. The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings in April of that year, +48 followed by a written +report supporting the amendment. 4 On April 20, 2004, a motion to proceed to consider the amendment... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017642.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017642.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e5f493c44d3d97bbbfbb32fab64b54c4b56df91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017642.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +My Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure +In the wake of the CVRA, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure needed to be significantly amended to comply with the +statute's mandates. With this goal in mind, I prepared a comprehensive set of proposed amendments to the Rules and submitted +them to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Criminal Rules Committee Proposals +The Advisory Committee took up my proposed rule changes in the summer of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017643.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017643.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..35f22b23403014c06e9a32c9264fbabc9796cd5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017643.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 871 +The full Advisory Committee took up the Subcommittee's proposals at its meeting on October 24-25, 2005. 68 It largely agreed +with the Subcommittee's proposals, approving a limited set of changes to the Rules to implement the CVRA. The Advisory +Committee sent a report of its proposed changes to the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure in December, +2005. 69 The Advisory Committee described its changes as seeking "to incorporate, but not go beyond, the rights created... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017644.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017644.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e162443c18a289b3c91bfca55c6444be76944b6d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017644.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 873 +meaning of the statutory terms on a case-by-case basis, and [we] did not attempt to use the rules to anticipate and resolve the +interpretative questions that will arise. 75 +Before debating the merits of the Advisory Committee's position, it is useful to step back and look at the forest rather than the +trees. Reflecting that view, for the last twenty years Congress has passed a series of laws extending rights to crime victims. +76 Even without a single word in the CVRA mentioning... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017645.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017645.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ce95faa153546b9070189be23746d4382fc6d6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017645.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +To be sure, it is a broad right - akin to the defendant's broad right to "due process of law." 81 +But to implement that right in the criminal rules is not "creating new victims rights not based upon the statute," as the Advisory +Committee puts it, but simply implementing a clearly articulated congressional command. It is a "cardinal principle of statutory construction" that effect must be given to every word in a statute. 82 Under the Advisory +Committee's approach, the congressional directive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017646.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017646.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f650134f95f8246c30bbc80ed71e2a3e4d498399 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017646.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 876 +history even once in a twenty-page subcommittee report, in four pages of minutes of its discussions, or in twenty-six pages of +proposed amendments and accompanying Advisory Committee Notes. 88 Perhaps the Advisory Committee took a different +approach than the CVRA's drafters because it did not consider their stated intentions. It is standard practice for the Advisory Committee, no less than courts, to look to legislative history in +crafting the Rules. +89 With respect to the CVRA in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017647.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017647.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8133ae10199c58ad98d5cb73cf9442a7ed1bab9b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017647.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 877 +witnesses, but also the victim as well. 96 Notably, the Advisory Committee's rationale for this change was to "implement] the +victim's "right to be treated with fairness' under the Crime Victims' Rights Act." 97 But if a change to the relatively obscure +Rule 18 is appropriate in light of the victim's right to fairness, why aren't changes to many other, more significant rules also +appropriate? For example, the Advisory Committee proposed an amendment to prevent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017648.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017648.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc2afc7fe1f50a4ac2e2c712e334307f57ffd82f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017648.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 878 +In 1983, the Advisory Committee changed Rule 11(a)(2) to eliminate a split of authority on conditional guilty pleas. One of the +reasons for the change was to "produce much needed uniformity in the federal system on this matter." 105 +In 1994, the Advisory Committee amended rule 32(b)(2) to give detense counsel an opportunity to be present when probation +officers interviewed their clients while preparing a presentence report. 106 The Advisory Committee Notes explained that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017649.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017649.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ecd48e0234a38de7b79f52ef6ca666b0b8cfad48 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017649.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +For all these reasons, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure should be amended not only to implement the narrow rights +articulated in the CVRA but also its more open-ended rights, particularly the victim's right to be treated with fairness. Specific Rule Changes to Comply with the CVRA +Against the backdrop of the statutory command that victims should be treated with fairness, the balance of this Article will +compare my specific proposals for amending the Rules with those of the Advisory... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017650.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017650.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15d99231713e29eddbd188d0090f5fbd7439a4a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017650.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 881 +The differences between the two approaches might seem modest until one recognizes that another provision in the Advisory +Committee's proposals appears to intentionally omit any reference to a victim representative. Proposed Rule 60, the Advisory +Committee's "global" provision dealing with victims' rights, explains who may enforce victims' rights. 122 In clear contrast to +the CVRA's governing provision, this proposed rule omits any reference to a crime victim's representative.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017651.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017651.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0af24c05add0360b6ebbf2443f2366431d07cc00 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017651.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +To eliminate any doubt about the ability of corporate entities to assert their interests, the Rules should be +amended to clearly state that a victim's representative can enforce victims' rights. 133 +Rule 2 - Fairness to Victims The Proposals: +I proposed amending Rule 2 to require fairness to victims in construing the Rules as follows: +These rules are to be interpreted to provide for the just determination of every criminal proceeding, to secure simplicity in +procedure and fairness in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017652.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017652.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e1f2f5a92c073f6dc42727fd08e98e9c70059b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017652.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 884 +ambiguous rules, but the Court has used it as a basis for deviating from the Rules in some circumstances. 140 Indeed, in some +lower court cases, Rule 2 has proven outcome determinative. For example, in United States v. Broadus, the United States +District Court for the District of Columbia used Rule 2 as a basis for deviating from the time limits imposed by Rule 29(c) for +the defendant to seek a new trial. 141 Relying on Rule 2, the court determined that "a seemingly plausible... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017653.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017653.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a464815ca18d1ff1b7d8865a26a72d7dec3824d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017653.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 885 +remains what the court should do with the victim's statement. Currently Rule 11(a)(3) specifies that the court must consider +"the parties''' views on a nolo plea - but it makes no mention of the victim's views. 149 The CVRA now mandates that victims +must be "reasonably heard" at any proceeding involving a "plea." 150 It is hard to see how anyone could argue that a victim is +reasonably heard when, after making a [886] statement about the nolo plea, the court is not required to even... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017654.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017654.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..265e27db7dd77330bf2c036ef1a6ec1c49694de3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017654.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 887 +concerning ... [a] plea." 157 But this brief mention in the rule is inferior to my specific proposal for several reasons. For example, is a victim reasonably heard when allowed to be +heard only through written submission? 158 Is a victim treated "fairly" if the court is required to address the defendant in open +court but not to address the victim? Rule 11(c)(1) - Prosecution To Consider Victims' Views on Pleas The Proposals: +I proposed that the prosecution should be required to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017655.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017655.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..28aabcb7a48004304a9a7a0af51d8ca71bb1affd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017655.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 888 +Perhaps the Advisory Committee overlooked this proposed change. +right to be heard at plea proceedings but also the rights to "confer with the attorney for the government" 164 and to be "treated +with fairness." 165 Given that victims have the right to confer, the conferring should take place at the most salient points in the +process. As Senator Feinstein explained, "This right [to confer] is intended to be expansive. For example, the victim has the +right to confer with the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017656.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017656.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5595869ed0b59a26d563912fb6f171ce3c0e794f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017656.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +When the issue reached the Utah Supreme Court, the court +concluded that the prosecutor had an ethical obligation as an officer of the court to convey that information to the judge: +Prosecutors must convey such requests [to be heard] because they are obligated to alert the court when they know that the court +lacks relevant information. The prosecutor is the representative not of an ordinary +party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017657.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017657.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3dfcf90096d807bc98afa2e373116cd98f1225d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017657.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Unless the court directs otherwise, an attorney for the government must give its Rule 12.1 (b)(1) +disclosure within 10 days after the defendant serves notice of an intended alibi defense under Rule 12.1(a)(2), but no later than +10 days before trial. +(c) Continuing Duty to Disclose. Both an attorney for the government and the defendant must promptly disclose in writing to +the other party the name of each additional witness, and the address and telephone number of each additional witness... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017658.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017658.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bef07b52e5dfe68390da591d8f26edfae1e4cd10 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017658.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Both an attorney for the government and the defendant must promptly disclose in writing to the other party the +name, of each additional witness and the address, and telephone number of each additional witness - other than a victim - if: +(A) (1) the disclosing party learns of the witness before or during trial; and +(B) (2) the witness should have been disclosed under Rule 12.1(a) or (b) if the disclosing party had known of the witness +earlier. +(2) Address and Telephone Number of an Additional... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017659.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017659.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa864583303d62afb56e0f2d40f628366ad4f1b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017659.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 894 +defendants are treated fairly - even in the absence of an overarching statutory command to that effect - while not doing the +same for crime victims, even where the CVRA directly commands that victims be treated "with fairness." 186 +In any event, the Advisory Committee's proposal is decidedly unfair. The Committee proposes a two-pronged approach: +If the government intends to rely on a victim's testimony to establish the defendant's presence at the scene of the alleged +offense and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017660.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017660.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3336a2a6b2acef44f8ce1eee645f8dfd300c8540 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017660.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For example, in +United States v. In response, the government filed a sealed, ex parte application under Rule 12.1(e) seeking +an exception to its obligation to disclose its alibi rebuttal witness to the defense. 194 Based on the defendant's violent history +and apparent ability to "induce others to commit crimes on his behalf," the court allowed the government to delay the +disclosure of the witness. 195 +The Wills court noted that two other circuits had addressed or commented on the issue. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017661.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017661.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed236551f697568c12f36ce1d4b52cd9b276699c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017661.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 897 +This may be a convenient place to highlight another defect in the Advisory Committee's proposal - crime victims have no right +to be heard on whether their address should be given to the defendant. The Advisory Committee waters down that proposal, +recommending only that the victim must "be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court concerning release, +plea, or sentencing involving the crime." 205 Under the Advisory Committee's formulation, therefore, crime... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017662.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017662.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..735a715b5b5cfc8543b529fb151543fa93929e6d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017662.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Finally, however one ends up on the proper formulation of the address issue under Rule 12.1 (governing alibi defenses), the +same formulation ought to be used in Rule 12.3 (governing public-authority defenses). Tracking my recommendations for Rule 12.1, I recommended +a parallel amendment to Rule 12.3 as follows: +[899] +Rule 12.3 Notice of a Public-Authority Defense +(4) Disclosing Witnesses. +(A) Government's Request. An attorney for the government may serve the request +when the government serves... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017663.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017663.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d8df92803545b6c4d3533dddb3ea284a7f7334b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017663.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rev. 861, 900 +The Advisory Committee did not propose any change to Rule 15. 216 +Discussion: +Rule 15 authorizes depositions for the purpose of preserving evidence for trial, 217 thus, such depositions are an extension of +the trial. The Advisory Committee declined to adopt this recommendation, concluding that depositions "do not fall within the CVRA, +which refers only to the victim's right not to be excluded from "public court proceedings.'' 219 But here, again, the Committee +has taken too narrow... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017664.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017664.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fee7096efa80eeaf38a5d28d8697a2adfc61bb95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017664.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rule 17 - Victims' Right to Notice of Subpoena of Confidential Information +The Proposals: +I recommended amending Rule 17 to ensure that subpoenas to third parties seeking personal and confidential information about +crime victims would not be [902| abused. Initially, I proposed requiring a court determination of relevance at trial and notice +to a victim as follows: +Rule 17(h)(2) - Victim Information. On motion made promptly by the victim, the court may quash or +modify the subpoena if compliance... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017665.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017665.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25f9d800beff9381fd85a38656643919bf64b631 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017665.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 903 +The amendment seeks to protect the interests of the victim without unfair prejudice to the defense. In exercising its discretion, the court +should consider the relevance of the subpoenaed material to the defense, whether giving notice would prejudice the defense, +and the degree to which the subpoenaed material implicates the privacy and dignity interests of the victim. 233 +Having seen the Advisory Committee proposal and accompanying note, I am concerned that the limits on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017666.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017666.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a800b5f6a8d36d81c48689a29248fbf80d488b1e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017666.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +A recent federal case illustrates the problem under the current rules. 240 In an assault case, defense counsel used Federal Rule +of Criminal Procedure 17(c) to obtain a subpoena for the victim's medical records held by the Veterans Administration. 241 +The federal district judge approved the subpoena and issued an order, ex parte and under seal, directing the VA to provide +defense counsel with [905] the records. +242 Defense counsel then obtained the records, all without knowledge of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017667.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017667.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7607daf590683ebc6c754e0a34d25a700965dc87 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017667.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The only justification the Advisory Committee gives for the +extraordinary step of allowing ex parte procedures is to avoid forcing "premature disclosure of defense strategy to the +government." 249 But when a victim's confidential information is at stake, some interest in concealing "strategy" from the +opposing party can hardly be sufficient grounds for ex parte issuance of a subpoena. The American Bar Association raised this point quite +effectively in its comments to the Advisory Committee on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017668.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017668.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4766bde63800f4bea76afef8971140261909ff77 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017668.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Due process is satisfied as long as the prosecution and +the defense have reciprocal rights and courts apply the Rules consistently. 257 +The objectionable feature of the Advisory Committee proposal is that the subpoena could be issued without notice to a crime +victim. Even if there is some tangential defense interest in conceding strategy, the Advisory Committee proposal addresses it in the +most haphazard way. Consider the Elizabeth Smart example mentioned earlier, in which the defense sent ex... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017669.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017669.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..638465556e40ba3f5861c8827aa02cdc576a6630 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017669.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 908 +for disclosing the fact of the subpoena to the victim, because of both ethical and legal considerations. 262 Thus, the Advisory +[909] Committee's use of ex parte procedures will only randomly protect defense strategy from disclosure. For example, in United States v. Urlacher, the defendant sought to use Rule 17 to subpoena financial, family, and +employment information concerning an individual believed by the defendant to be the government's main witness at trial. 263 +The court... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017670.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017670.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d967d8eeecf1929ab11065f375688c71afa516fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017670.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Such +subpoenas can also implicate a victim's right to "be reasonably protected from the accused." 273 For example, a defense +subpoena to the Department of Motor Vehicles for address information could very directly jeopardize a victim's safety. 274 Yet +the Advisory Committee Note makes no mention of such legitimate factors - factors the CVRA requires courts to consider. Such an order +is far preferable to the ex parte procedure proposed by the Advisory Committee. For the above reasons, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017671.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017671.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2a5d2dbd9f0b748fb359e332176118342746d0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017671.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +In contrast, the Advisory Committee seemingly enlarges the +substantive rights of defendants by failing to reference even a single Nixon factor in its proposal. Thus, unless a court takes it +upon itself to ensure the relevancy, specificity, and admissibility of the subpoenas, [912] the Advisory Committee proposal +might provide the defendant with license to conduct the very "fishing expedition" that Nixon forbids. Current law clearly limits Rule 17 subpoenas to evidence that is admissible at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017672.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017672.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c3dca5fd71e68168b1b70a96a37ebf74bbbabea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017672.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 912 +court's refusal to issue subpoenas designed to uncover documents relating to the mental health of a victim and various +289 The court described the broad and speculative nature of the request directed toward a hospital, observing that the +defense was ""hard- [913] pressed' to describe the information it hoped to discover in the materials." 290 Consistent with +Nixon, the court found the defendant's request "exemplified his "mere hope' that the desired documents would... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017673.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017673.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6738059ea3399c43fb399f12c1093b45865165d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017673.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rev. 861, 914 +Brady's requirements are incongruous with traditional discovery, as Brady does not even apply at pretrial stages. +303 Rule 16 +of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure was built on this foundation. The assumption that no right to discovery exists "is +still the underlying predicate for Rule 16." 304 +Because there is no constitutional right to discovery, discovery is determined largely by statute and court rule. 305 Discovery +statutes typically apply to exculpatory material within... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017674.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017674.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7775bb85185c83fc8d9b83b49abc88fba249ab12 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017674.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rev. 861, 915 +evidence, the court reasoned. 322 Similarly, a Maryland appellate court, in Goldsmith v. The Jencks Act, +325 for example, restricts access to statements by [916] +government witnesses. +326 It specifically mandates that only after a government witness testifies on direct examination shall +the statement of the witness be the subject of discovery. 327 The Jencks Act does not even allow access to all statements - a +witness statement need only be produced if the statement "relates to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017675.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017675.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b28ca4234505b516e47b1875c1de8d352f582d9a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017675.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 916 +court determined "this remedy does not address the Government's justifiable concerns regarding the risk of witness tampering +in circumstances where there is no evidence that the life or safety of a prospective witness is in danger." 334 In other words, +Jencks Act protection is not limited to situations where the government shows an actual danger to witnesses - its witness- +protective qualities reach much further. 335 +[917| The lack of grounds for subpoenas seeking victim... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017676.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017676.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f974cc2629d6a0a406001760d6cc4705e070e806 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017676.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +For instance, in United States v. Armstrong, the Ninth Circuit recognized no authority exists in the federal rules for requiring the government to disclose the +names of its witnesses. 342 Still, the court held that district courts have authority to require such disclosure based on Federal +Rule of Criminal Procedure 57(b). 343 This rule acts as a stopgap: in the absence of controlling law, it allows judges to +"regulate practice in any manner consistent with federal law, these rules, and the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017677.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017677.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a76c9fb877c08352945c4597d4e60dfdbdf6c98 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017677.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Moreover, +some courts and commentators suggested the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures +applies to (and may prohibit) court-mandated discovery of victims. The Advisory Committee must ensure that through casual drafting it does not inadvertently invite more defense +subpoenas for such information. The Advisory Committee's current draft may well have that effect, by seemingly authorizing +such subpoenas without regard to the numerous restrictions governing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017678.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017678.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edf371ed3468cb3f946dd75afd88c1fa950a70b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017678.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The court must set the place of trial within the district with due regard for the convenience of the defendant, any +victim, and the witnesses, and the prompt administration of justice. 353 +The Advisory Committee adopted this proposal verbatim. 354 +[921] Discussion: +Little needs be said about the Advisory Committee's agreement with my proposal here, other than to note that the Committee's +rationale for this change was "to implement the victim's "right to be treated with fairness' under the Crime... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017679.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017679.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a88994e2074c287c07b0f112d2592b3c25d10386 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017679.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The Subcommittee was not +persuaded that the rule should disturb this statutory balance by requiring the attorney for the government to advise the court of +a victim's objection to a Rule 20 transfer. The Advisory Committee is able to claim that the CVRA does "not specifically address transfer" only because it reviewed an +amputated CVRA - that is, a CVRA without a right to fairness. Even under its truncated view of the statute, the Advisory Committee does envision that the prosecutors will confer... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017680.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017680.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b91e59149ea90685bebec91853c44e5045da45a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017680.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Rev. 861, 923 +The Advisory Committee recommended no change to this rule. 367 +Discussion: +The Advisory Committee rejected this change because, in its view, the fact that the CVRA did not specifically address transfer +decisions precluded any amendment: +[924] +Judge Cassell grounds his proposal on the general provision of the CVRA that gives a victim a right to be treated with +"fairness." 18 U.S. The Subcommittee was not persuaded that this general language warranted an amendment +that would require... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017681.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017681.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9381aa2e8e12ceea820d60f7bf583b91a65ec75 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017681.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Supreme Court's decisions on right of public access to trials bolsters the understanding of the Article Il's provision to +protect the community interest. In cases such as Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia, the Court has held that implicit in the +First Amendment is a guarantee of the public's right to attend trials. 374 Compelling victims' interests underlie this guarantee. Timmendequas, +379 +state law provisions similar to the CVRA's, the New Jersey Supreme Court explained that the trial... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017682.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017682.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6a2daf3cbd5fcb93f6ed6cce5b6729064b44963 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017682.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Rule 21 ought to be amended to allow victims to provide that kind of information to the judge +before any transfer decision is made. +382 +[927] Rule 23 - Victims' Views Considered Regarding Nonjury Trial The Proposals: +I proposed that the court should be required to consider the views of victims before allowing waiver of a jury trial as follows: +Rule 23. Jury or Nonjury Trial +(a) Jury Trial. If the defendant is entitled to a jury trial, the trial must be by jury unless: +(1) the defendant waives a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017683.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017683.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37a83e4f02b620fd15a3a880ea9cce707226321a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017683.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This is a "serious and weighty responsibility." 390 +To discharge that serious and weighty responsibility, the Advisory Committee should draft Rule 23 so that the trial court should +receive as much relevant information as possible. The proposed rule change takes the modest step of allowing the victim to be heard before the +court approves any nonjury trial. +(New) Rules 32(e), (f), (h), and (i) - Disclosure of the Presentence Report to Victims and Opportunity for Victims to Object and +Be Heard 391... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017684.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017684.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d790caa4c5c5bf500462dec5d034f7b6e95bc310 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017684.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rev. 861, 929 +(3) Sentence Recommendation. By local rule or by order in a case, the court may direct the probation officer not to disclose to +anyone other than the court the officer's recommendation on the sentence. 392 +I further recommended that victims be given the opportunity to object to and be heard on disputed issues in the presentence +report as follows: +(f) Objecting to the Report. +(1) Time to Object. The attorney for the government or for the victim shall raise for the victim any... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017685.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017685.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15993551b004d062cb3a73e5f9ebf0e599b06e7c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017685.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 930 +(B) must - for any disputed portion of the presentence report or other controverted matter - rule on the dispute or determine that +a ruling is unnecessary either because the matter will not affect sentencing, or because the court will not consider the matter in +sentencing; and +[931] (C) must append a copy of the court's determinations under this rule to any copy of the presentence report made +available to the Bureau of Prisons. The Advisory Committee recommended no changes to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017686.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017686.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0faa182d668c38f40ce75dc1f69164b235260e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017686.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 932 +In addition, an independent basis for victims reviewing presentence reports is the victim's broad right under the CVRA to be +"treated with fairness" 402 and right to restitution, as I argued in my earlier article. 403 +Thus, the CVRA should be understood as giving victims the right to relevant information in the presentence report about the +Guidelines and to be heard before a court makes any final conclusions about Guidelines calculations and other sentencing +matters. Since I made... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017687.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017687.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..936efb2880696f85fb198c8227cf51714b6650cd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017687.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 933 +But the CVRA already gives victims the right to "confer" with prosecutors +409 - and presumably they will be conferring +regarding the important topic of sentencing. The Advisory Committee declined to adopt my proposal, opining that "the prosecutor should remain the victim's source of +information regarding the sentencing process and the contents of the presentence report, and the prosecutor should have +discretion to determine what information from the presentence report should be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017688.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017688.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f75e53780a6b4872fd3353b2453db6653980089 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017688.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Advisory Committee's view on this point is curious. The Advisory Committee did not directly quarrel with the position +that victims should have the opportunity to be heard on disputed sentencing issues. Instead, the Advisory Committee would +only go so far as to suggest that it +felt it would be desirable for the courts gradually to flesh out what the right to be heard means in this [sentencing] context +(determining, for example, when the right to be heard would include the right to introduce... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017689.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017689.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f5df629afb6d80c7186f4e1ab3d06c663c41238 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017689.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 936 +intended to pass a law establishing "fair play for crime victims, meaningful participation of crime victims in the justice system, +protection against a government that would take from a crime victim the dignity of due process...." 425 +By building victims into the Guidelines process, my proposal would also provide an important procedural protection to +defendants. Dozier, the Tenth Circuit held that a district court is required to give notice to a defendant before +departing upward... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017690.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017690.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ef08b144689844eaa34c4ff9533de4f67735326 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017690.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 937 +Focusing specifically on the issue of victim impact information, the [938] Third Circuit is correct that, under the current +rules, it is "unworkable" to provide advance notice of upward (or downward 433) departures based on victim allocution at the +sentencing hearing. Regardless of whether the Guidelines are advisory, this is the fairest way to proceed for +defendants, the prosecution, and victims. +(New) Rule 32(i)(4) - Victims' Right to be Reasonably Heard at Sentencing The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017691.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017691.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d222af6e834e8967ff8eed073120f23f363f2b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017691.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 939 +both approved broadening that rule to give all victims the right to speak. 437 (The Judicial Conference withdrew this proposed +rule to allow reconsideration in light of the CVRA.) The CVRA gave victims the right to be "reasonably heard" at sentencing. The Advisory Committee should directly state that victims have the right to speak at sentencing, as the only courts to have +reached the issue have held. +439 For [940] instance, in United States v. Kenna, Judge Kozinski 440 explained... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017692.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017692.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c067af7840e1e34e54a63326ca7fd1c8b6250847 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017692.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rule 44.1 - Discretionary Appointment of Counsel for Victim The Proposals: +I proposed that the court's discretionary authority to appoint counsel for a victim should be included in a new rule as follows: +Rule 44.1 Counsel for Victims. When the interests of justice require, the court may appoint counsel for a victim to assist the victim in exercising his or her +rights. 149 +The Advisory Committee did not propose any change in the Rules on this subject. 450 +Discussion: +The Advisory Committee never... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017693.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017693.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f6ca436d43e6862526c99e39e5117c3d0f7010b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017693.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Presumably, that same power extends to requesting assistance +for crime victims. 457 In light of all these facts, federal courts have the inherent power to request attorneys to represent indigent +crime victims. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in +United States v. Stamper. 458 In this rape case, a dispute arose over the admission of certain psychiatric reports concerning the +victim that the defense alleged demonstrated a pattern of making false allegations of sexual... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017694.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017694.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a0540d7b79fd138922529d39a364808aa53d7f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017694.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Victims +(a) Rights of Victims. +(3) Right to Be Heard. The court must permit a victim to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court concerning release ... +involving the crime. 466 +Discussion: +The Advisory Committee's global proposal gives victims the right to be "heard" on release decisions; but it fails to spell out +what effect, if any, the [944] victim's statement would have after the court heard the victim. In contrast, my proposal would take the straightforward and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017695.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017695.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5464700bf00432a7d2c60ed88ce6cefc72bfd9d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017695.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 945 +In light of the statutory statement in 18 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(6) that nothing in the CVRA "shall be construed to impair the +prosecutorial discretion of the Attorney General," as well as the separation of powers issues raised by judicial review of the +government's decision to terminate a prosecution, the Subcommittee was not persuaded that the rule should be amended to +require the court to consider the victim's views on dismissal. C. § 3771(a)(5). 471 +The Advisory Committee's opening... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017696.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017696.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eec7c22eaaf2cba39ddce782ef51a99ccb171586 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017696.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Rev. 861, 946 +The Advisory Committee's next argument is that to allow victims to be heard on dismissals would violate the CVRA's +requirement that nothing in the Act "shall be construed to impair the prosecutorial discretion of the Attorney General." 480 But +it is hard to understand how allowing information from a victim to go to a court "impairs" the government's discretion. The Advisory Committee's final argument is that "when there is no public court proceeding, the victim's views will be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017697.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017697.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96a0e30feed5cd6f22485f5295a843641a19923a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017697.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 947 +beyond, the rights created by statute" and that it "adopted the statutory language whenever possible." 488 Yet under the +Advisory Committee's proposed changes, victims' speedy trial rights under the CVRA are not incorporated into the Rules. As Senator Kyl explained: "This +provision [in the CVRA] should be interpreted so that any decision to schedule, reschedule, or continue criminal cases should +include victim input through the victim's assertion of the right to be free from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017698.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017698.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a54e0e9194f081356e0e1a534ec5f951a4816a33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017698.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +This was the procedure followed in the Oklahoma City bombing +But tracking the CVRA is not enough. The language for my proposed rule comes from another statute, 42 U.S.C. § 10608(a), +which authorizes closed-circuit transmissions "notwithstanding any provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to the +contrary" in cases in which a proceeding has been transferred more than 350 miles. 499 The Advisory Committee repeatedly +proposed folding language from the CVRA straight into the Federal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017699.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017699.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c8f945b613c71fdc10880e102d1e0de6d92a8073 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017699.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rev. 861, 950 +(1) The scheduling, including scheduling changes and/or continuances, of each court proceeding that the victim is either +required to attend or entitled to attend; +(2) The release or detention status of a defendant or suspected offender; +(3) The filing of charges against a defendant, or the proposed dismissal of all charges, including the placement of the defendant +in a pretrial diversion program and the conditions thereon; +(4) The right to make a statement about pretrial release... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017700.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017700.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4732c68e39758e5bc70639e386e04265d580495 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017700.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 952 +their rights [in the CVRA]." 507 Because the Advisory Committee's promised approach was to "incorporate, but not go beyond, +the rights created by the statute," 508 it is surprising to see that the Committee decided not to incorporate the CVRA's right for +victims to be "notified of ... their rights." Here again, perhaps it simply overlooked this right of victims. Just as criminal defendants receive advice of their Miranda +rights, victims should receive advice of their rights.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017701.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017701.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d5a599baf3296f4af9c9e69f2abab4b229074fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017701.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 953 +prosecutors and their agents to provide notice to crime victims for their rights, +, 516 as do some states. 517 To ensure that the +Justice Department has sufficient resources to provide notice, the CVRA authorizes $ 25 million over the next five fiscal years +to the Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice for enhancement of victim notification systems. 518 The +Advisory Committee should therefore add language to its proposed rule change to require prosecutors to give... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017702.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017702.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..482fe21842a120ef88d9772358cc155b1b53f62c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017702.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 955 +materially altered by attending the trial. 523 Because the Advisory Committee proposal essentially tracks my proposal, it is not +necessary to discuss this issue here. +(New) Rule 60(a)(3) - Victims' Right to be Heard on Bail, Plea, Sentencing and Other Issues The Proposals: +I proposed not only specific rules allowing victim to be heard at release, plea, and sentencing hearings but also a general rule +giving victims the right to be heard on all issues directly affecting their rights... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017703.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017703.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9787eddc833c77cdfc6d3f12fcb413d0a9619f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017703.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 956 +Part of the confusion here may stem from two different ways in which victims can be heard. The CVRA directly gives +victims and their representatives the right to "assert" their rights. 532 These rights can be asserted by a victim's representative +(that is, an attorney). 533 The CVRA also allows victims to file motions asserting their rights which must be taken up +"forthwith." 534 These are all ways in which victims can properly be heard. 535 +The CVRA's legislative history makes it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017704.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017704.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..358f1ff701761048ad55e350690c8db9eab09be4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017704.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Rev. 861, 958 +(b) Preserving a Claim of Error. A ruling or order that admits or excludes evidence is governed by Federal +Rule of Evidence 103. 540 +The Advisory Committee proposed incorporating some of the language of the CVRA dealing with enforcement of victims' +rights as follows: +Rule 60. Victim's Rights. +(b) Enforcement and Limitations. +(1) Time for Decision. The court must promptly decide any motion asserting a victim's rights under these rules. +(2) Who May Assert Rights. If the court finds... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017705.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017705.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..306cacff6733881431bdc5ab9a5cff98beb3d86d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017705.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 959 +First, in Proposed Rule 60(b)(1), the Advisory Committee has watered down the CVRA's directive that a court must decide any +victim's motion "forthwith" S42 to "promptly." While there is nothing wrong with this change as a matter of style, 543 it does +appear to reduce the speed with which courts will have to act to enforce victims' rights. "Forthwith" can be interpreted to be +more exacting requirement than "promptly." 544 Given that the Advisory Committee's premise that, where... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017706.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017706.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1db7ff66bad094613d01292ac942fdfa142a9ea4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017706.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Rev. 861, 960 +This resulted in the Advisory Committee proposing a rule that recites only half of the CVRA's venue provision. The rule as +proposed by the Advisory Committee provides that "the rights described in [the rules] must be asserted in [961] the district in +which a defendant is being prosecuted for the crime," 552 leaving silent what a victim should do if no prosecution is underway. Once again, the confusion that the Advisory Committee discovered in the statute stems from the committee's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017707.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017707.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..274eebf05f9f567059b02018c842cb951b3e02e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017707.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 962 +It is important to emphasize one argument the Advisory Committee does not appear to make: that the CVRA applies only to +charged crimes. Discussing the CVRA's +definition of a crime victim, 559 Senator Kyl said the statute used an "intentionally broad definition because all victims of +crime deserve to have their rights protected, whether or not they are the victim of the count charged." 560 +At least one federal magistrate judge has suggested, in dicta, that - in spite of Senator... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017708.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017708.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b66777d57977cdac701fdbc70b7efc2893fc4394 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017708.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +A defendant who +simply complained about a victim designation would lack "standing" under Article III of the Constitution, because there would +be no "threatened or actual injury resulting from the putatively illegal action." 568 Moreover, to give defendants free license to +cross-examine victims about whether they were truly victims would obviously create a right to discovery in a criminal case that +contradicts current law 569 and circumvents the stringent limitations on depositions of witnesses... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017709.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017709.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75b69094d209c630671dd4169ddf4881d21c3f91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017709.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Rules of Criminal Procedure are an +important part of that system and must fully reflect the congressionally protected interests of crime victims. Indeed, Congress will be looking carefully at the CVRA's +effectiveness in changing the system in 2008, as it directed the General Accounting Office to "prepare and submit to the +appropriate committees a report" on the effectiveness of the act at that time. 574 +It would be unfortunate if initiative for rules on crime victims were to pass from the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017710.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017710.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..016a920daa53b0c8642f6bafdf34ec82db85c36d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017710.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 966 +In response to this Article and to other public criticisms of its rules, the Advisory Committee made several modest changes to +its proposed rules. The Advisory Committee has submitted them all to the Supreme Court and, unless +the Court takes the unusual step of disavowing them, they will go into effect on December 1, 2008. In apparent response to my criticism that the definition of "victim" found in Rule 1 intentionally excluded a victim's +"representative," +on April 16, 2007, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017711.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017711.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5475545814e494ea5069726b239782863165b7a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017711.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 861, 968 +of subpoenas for confidential information and thus violated important due process principles. 589 The new rule is an +improvement, in that it limits ex parte procedures to "exceptional circumstances." The Committee note then offers two +illustrations of exceptional circumstances. Also at its October 1, 2007 meeting, the Advisory Committee approved a very modest change to Rule 21(b), regarding +transfer of cases for convenience. Transfer for Trial +(b) For Convenience. While the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017712.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017712.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..870e941b769ece5cccb3ee90205bbe7b4708e759 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017712.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Legislation to Fully Implement the CVRA +Unsatisfied with the timid approach taken by the Advisory Committee on the CVRA, Senator Jon Kyl introduced legislation to +comprehensively amend the federal rules on June 29, 2007. Senator Kyl explained that the Advisory Committee's amendments +"do little more than reiterate limited parts of the statute." 600 Agreeing with the major premise of this Article - that crime +victims must be treated fairly in the criminal justice process - Senator Kyl noted: "Of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017713.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017713.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7848971a753af722bffe09b7cf09373fb6e3d4c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017713.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 861, 970 +As of this writing, the ultimate disposition of Senator Kyl's bill remains uncertain. But what is certain is that congressional +interest in crime victims' rights will remain strong. Congress has been working on far reaching crime victims' rights legislation +for several decades now and, indeed, many in Congress favor an amendment to the United States Constitution to protect +victims' rights. 611 Against that backdrop, it is unlikely that Congress will permit the Federal Rules of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017714.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017714.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43e1ac7085f9ca3cd0726f418e74d98482b33e4b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017714.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +LexisNexis® +User Name: DAVID SCHOEN +Date and Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:28:00 AM EST +Job Number: 83852970 +Document (1) +1. ARTICLE: Recognizing Victims in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: Proposed Amendments in Light +of the Crime Victims' Rights Act, 2005 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 835 +Client/Matter: -None- +Search Terms: cra and sixth amendment +Search Type: Terms and Connectors +Narrowed by: +Content Type +Secondary Materials +Narrowed by +Sources: Law Reviews and Journals +'LexisNexis | About... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017715.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017715.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8df2ae6db67a18a5c440bbe9b32b32393726f5a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017715.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +ARTICLE: Recognizing Victims in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: Proposed +Amendments in Light of the Crime Victims' Rights Act +2005 +Reporter +2005 B.Y.U.L. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah and United States District Court Judge for +the District of Utah. Thanks to Doug Beloof, Janna Tucker Davis, Meg Garvin, Wendy Murphy, Judge James Orenstein, and +Steve Twist; to my able law clerks Ann Bauer, Tim Conde, Tyler Green, Felise Thorpe Moll, Justin Start, and Stewart Young; +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017716.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017716.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36f1a7c05e3fc5b65456967bdc763f569b066f7d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017716.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 835, 837 +Part II then discusses the crime victims' rights movement and concludes with a brief sketch of the events leading to the CVRA's +enactment. +[838] Part III discusses why it is necessary to amend the federal criminal rules to incorporate victims. Given that Congress was particularly concerned about integrating victims into the fabric of the criminal justice +system, the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules should amend the rules to directly reflect the CVRA's requirements. Part IV... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017717.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017717.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63da5cd8b26af5454d9182e9f16c2f5ebad83201 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017717.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 835, 839 +information is subpoenaed from third parties - such as schools or medical providers - even though victims have compelling +privacy interests to protect. & And the rules do not protect the victim's right to attend trials, despite [840] victims' long +history of having at least some protected interest in observing trials and other proceedings. 9 +One provision conveniently encapsulates the surprising absence of victims from the rules: Rule 32(d)(2)(B). Rule 32(d)(2)(B) directs that a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017718.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017718.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8805ed54238809968e9e18671f752349de6805b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017718.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The victims' rights movement received considerable impetus with the publication in 1982 of the Report of the President's Task +Force on Victims of Crime. +17 The Task Force concluded that the criminal justice system "has lost an essential balance .... This oppression must be redressed." 18 +The Task Force advocated [842] multiple reforms. The Task Force proposed adding to the Sixth Amendment's protections for defendants' rights a provision allowing crime +victims to be present and heard: "Likewise,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017719.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017719.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7069890e32b63f54bac85c1aeea2ecc28620ff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017719.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In 1982 Congress passed the first +federal victims' rights legislation, the Victim and Witness Protection Act (VWPA). 27 The VWPA had three primary goals: (1) +to expand and protect the role of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice process; (2) to ensure that the federal government +used all available resources to protect and assist victims without infringing defendants' constitutional rights; and (3) to provide +a model for state and local legislation. +28 Since passage of the VWPA,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017720.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017720.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1dad1d626cad6fba6b62096409b84c2f2b4f2c29 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017720.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Curiously, the 1990 Victims' Rights and Restitution Act was codified in Title 42 of the United States Code - the Title dealing +with "Public Health and Welfare." Such placement effectively limited the Act's effectiveness because federal practitioners +reflexively consult Title 18, the Title that covers "Crimes and Criminal Procedure," 44 for guidance on criminal law issues. More prosaically, federal criminal enactments are bound together in a single West publication entitled the Federal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017721.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017721.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c2e17f0248b18da7bc99cc17e5c3131e5fdf334 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017721.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit seeking +review of the district court's ruling. +54 Three months later, a Tenth Circuit panel rejected the victims' claims. 55 The circuit +found "a number of problems with the excluded witnesses' reliance on the Victims' Rights Act." 56 Indeed, the circuit found +that the Act created no obligations for courts: +1÷847| +The statute charily pledges only the "best efforts" of certain executive branch personnel to secure the rights listed. Indeed, the Act's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017722.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017722.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..caa470acd3c855787a5bacd2a6ac0467a59d416f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017722.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +These significant state efforts simply are not sufficiently consistent, comprehensive, or authoritative +to safeguard victims' rights. 63 +To place victims' rights in the Constitution, victims advocates - led most prominently by the National Victims Constitutional +Amendment Network 64 - approached the President and Congress regarding a federal amendment. 65 On April 22, 1996, +Senators Kyl and Feinstein with the backing of President Clinton introduced a federal victims' rights amendment. +66... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017723.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017723.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..145f156bf88d4b0b0b699bbd937869cc912fed48 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017723.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +On April 15, 2002, Senators Kyl and +Feinstein reintroduced the Amendment in the Senate, 79 and the following day, President Bush announced his support. 80 On +May 1, [850] 2002, a companion measure was proposed in the House. +81 On January 7, 2003, Senators Kyl and Feinstein +proposed the amendment as Senate Judiciary Resolution 1. The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings in April of that year, +82 followed by a written report supporting the Amendment. 83 Shortly thereafter, a motion to proceed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017724.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017724.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..195463726c2d71909d3b4acaf1574808d95302c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017724.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Rev. 835, 851 +(4) The right to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court involving release, plea, sentencing, or any +parole proceeding; +(5) The reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the Government in the case; +(6) The right to full and timely restitution as provided in law; +(7) The right to proceedings free from unreasonable delay; +(8) The right to be treated with fairness and with respect for the victim's dignity and privacy. 89 +Rather than relying merely on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017725.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017725.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c602e4ca6bbab2cb93e092412aafb5ab314511b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017725.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Congress intended that the CVRA's new rights not be "simply words on paper," but rather "meaningful and functional" +reforms. 100 To that end, Congress mandated that courts shall "ensure" that crime victims are "afforded the rights" conveyed +by the CVRA. 101 To effectively ensure that victims' rights are protected, these rights must become part of the warp and woof +of the criminal process. Judges and practitioners frequently refer to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure for guidance as to how... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017726.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017726.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1abc342d3f6153432c7d0f71b075bc818897dff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017726.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Congress is watching to see whether the Judiciary (and the Executive) will +fully and fairly implement this new Act. As Senator Leahy warned, "Passage of this bill will necessitate careful oversight of its +implementation by Congress." 112 +Construing the CVRA to require changes is also appropriate because the Act is remedial legislation. As the Supreme Court has +instructed, "When Congress uses broad generalized language in a remedial statute, and that language is not contravened by +authoritative... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017727.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017727.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dad3c54f78aa5996fd8106be4f5e6f3f90f78bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017727.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +For +convenience, this Article discusses the proposed changes sequentially, beginning with Rule 1. Rule 1 - Definition of "Victim" +The Proposal: +Rule 1 should be amended to include the following definition of a victim: +'Victim" means a person directly and proximately harmed as a result of the commission of a federal offense or an offense in the +District of Columbia. The Rationale: +The CVRA directly defines "victim" using this language, +120 which ought to be folded into the rules for convenience.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017728.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017728.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..386414ed53fc486e58a0d85c45371186aaa54dd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017728.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rule 2 - Fairness to Victims in Construction +The Proposal: +Rule 2 should be amended to require fairness to victims in construing the rules as follows: +These rules are to be interpreted to provide for the just determination of every criminal proceeding, to secure simplicity in +procedure and fairness in administration to the government, defendants, and victims, and to eliminate unjustifiable expense and +delay. The Rationale: +The CVRA broadly mandates that victims have the right to "be treated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017729.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017729.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d410f2ea16576a527f0da8624d605e871b43544 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017729.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rev. 835, 859 +(a) Identification of Victim. During the prosecution of a case, the attorney for the government shall, at the earliest reasonable +opportunity, identify the victims of the crime. +[860] +(b) Notice of Case Events. During the prosecution of a crime, the attorney for the government shall make reasonable efforts to +provide victims the earliest possible notice of: +(1) The scheduling, including scheduling changes and/or continuances, of each court proceeding that the victim is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017730.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017730.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9777b3acd335be7dc061f7226228d8b0454f5e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017730.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 835, 861 +Second, prosecutors and their agents continue dealing with victims throughout the course of a prosecution. United States Attorneys' offices, including the victim- +witness components in those offices, are well situated to provide that assistance. As the President's [862] Task Force of +Victims of Crime concluded, the prosecutor is "in the best position to explain to victims the legal significance of various +motions and proceedings." 134 For all these reasons, prosecutors should... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017731.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017731.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..30b20917bbfe3828a97970ea9959f0d6d32a6c23 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017731.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 835, 863 +To avoid creating only significant new responsibilities for prosecutors and their agents, the proposed new Rule 10.1 is lifted +essentially verbatim from the 2000 Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance. The 2005 revisions to the +Guidelines continue essentially the same requirements. 138 +The drafters of the CVRA also appear to believe that the notification obligations will fall primarily on prosecutors' offices, as +the CVRA authorizes an appropriation of $... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017732.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017732.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2f375bdf284df722422876d620d59de308c9c8f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017732.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 835, 865 +Furthermore, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure already direct executive branch actions less directly connected to court +hearings. For instance, Rule 16 directs that prosecutors must turn over various discoverable items to the defendant. 147 Rule 41 +directs federal agents serving a warrant to leave a copy for the person whose premises are searched. 148 And, most +controversially, Rule 5 directs that federal agents making an arrest "must take the defendant without unnecessary... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017733.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017733.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d366352f8e3a261bf6a9127d77e2c9a7e2164e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017733.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The court is under no obligation to accept a plea proposed by the +154 After hearing from the victim about the plea, the court can determine what weight to give to the victim's views. 155 +To implement the victim's right to be heard regarding a plea, the proposed rule change requires the court to directly address any +victim present in court. This is consistent with the CVRA's legislative history that explains that "this provision is intended to +allow crime victims to directly address the court in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017734.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017734.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8a8a7c25e397692fc23bc83ec00f1d148ff39ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017734.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 835, 868 +of, and consider victims' views about, prospective plea negotiations." 158 Twenty-nine states already require prosecutors to +"consult with" or "obtain the views of" victims at the plea agreement stage. 159 +The proposed rule helps to implement not only a victim's right to be heard at plea proceedings but also the right to "confer with +the attorney for the Government." 160 Given that victims have the right to confer, the conferring should take place at the most +salient points in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017735.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017735.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5fc9bcb6fde62f5f3f27277ef70f13e6e68b897 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017735.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The victim then obtained legal counsel and appealed to the Utah Supreme Court, +urging that under the Utah Victims' Rights Amendment, her right to be heard regarding a plea had been violated. In rejecting the State's argument, the Utah Supreme Court explained that prosecutors, no less than other +actors in the criminal justice system, were required to assist victims throughout the process. +165 More important for present +purposes, the court also concluded that prosecutors had ethical obligations... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017736.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017736.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1ed06c35ce9f516120f08e4c828eebb17eb9043 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017736.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 835, 871 +must review that [872] statement. +173 Finally, before an Arizona court accepts a plea, the prosecutor must advise the court +that reasonable efforts were made to confer with the victim about the plea and the victim's view regarding it. 174 +The rule proposed here is narrower than these state formulations: it requires only that a prosecutor confer with the victim about +the plea and inform the court if the victim objects. Rule 12.1 - Victim Addresses and Phone Numbers Not Disclosed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017737.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017737.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26e08da7fa3db71941a4569cdcdcbd389cfd9188 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017737.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Nothing in the rule, however, would bar the defendant from requesting that +information by filing an appropriate motion. The court could then determine whether any such motion had merit. 176 +[874] +Rule 15 - Victims' Right To Attend Pre-Trial Depositions +The Proposal: +Rule 15 should allow victims to attend any public deposition in a case as follows: +(i) Victims Can Attend. A Victim can attend any public deposition taken under this rule under the same conditions as govern a +victim's attendance at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017738.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017738.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d432cad53353abeddfeef505520f502b24e7413e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017738.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 835, 875 +criminal proceedings involving the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Elizabeth was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, +Utah. She was found nearly nine months later with a local transient and his wife, who had taken Elizabeth at knifepoint. 180 +Attorneys for Elizabeth's alleged kidnapper subpoenaed class records from her high school - class and teacher lists, report +cards, and disciplinary and attendance records - and medical records from her hospital. 181 While the hospital... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017740.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017740.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d996b42cdfecf3ce9556de9a5d3037222bd783a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017740.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Rev. 835, 879 +This change helps to implement a victim's right under the CVRA to be treated "with fairness." 196 The rule change is modest. Rule 20 - Victims' Views Considered Regarding Consensual Transfer +The Proposal: +Rule 20 should be amended to allow the court to consider the victims' views in any decision to transfer a case as follows: +(a) Consent to Transfer. If any victim +objects to the transfer, the United States attorney in the transferring district or the victim's attorney shall advise... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017741.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017741.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..861950aaaf5cfadc3290166a73fc834c28941814 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-017741.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Rev. 835, 880 +Article IlI and the public's First Amendment right of access to trials give constitutional dimensions to the victim's interest in +transfer decisions. Under the Sixth Amendment, "in all criminal prosecutions, the +accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall +have been committed ...." 201 This right might be viewed as the defendant's to assert or waive as circumstances dictate. Instead, Article Ill... \ No newline at end of file