Welcome to Part II of today's SJC hearing LiveBlog.  The hearing is titled
"FISA Amendments: How to Protect Americans’ Security and Privacy and Preserve the Rule of Law and Government Accountability."

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SJC hearing notice w/ RealPlayer webcast link

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GO TO PART II

Welcome to Day Two of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General.

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Welcome to Part II of a Liveblog of the Senate Committee on Appropriations Hearing on the Iraq War Supplemental, beginning at 2:00 p.m. EDT.  Chairman Robert Byrd (D-WV) has already strongly noted that he isn't ready to hand the President another blank check.  We'll see.

Liveblog Part I is here.  Thanks to gchaucer2 for putting it up.

BREAKING! Senator Byrd suspended the hearing when protesters exploded in response to General Pace's remarks "clarifying" his belief that homosexuality is "immoral".  Byrd ordered the room cleared, and the hearing has now resumed.

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It's McConnell redux on the Hill today, this time with SJC.  I'm wondering if anyone will pursue McConnell's "selective declassification" from previous hearings as summarized in drational's diary from yesterday.

Links:
C-SPAN3
SJC website with webcast link

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 12:30 pm – 345 Cannon (Caucus Room) - Open

The Joint Full Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee will meet to receive testimony on the status of the war and political developments in Iraq.

Witnesses:

General David Petraeus,
USA Commander, Multi-National Forces—Iraq

Ambassador Ryan Crocker
United States Ambassador to Iraq

Streaming available at C-SPAN3 or MSNBC or CNN (follow link) or Foreign Relations Committee website (click on "live webcast").  offred also reported that NPR is also carrying it; check your local stations.

Scott Jennings is appearing today pursuant to subpoena before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Like Sara Taylor, he is refusing to answer questions considered covered by "executive privilege", and his attorney is keeping him company at the witness table.

Available on C-SPAN3 or via the SJC website

Karl Rove was also subpoenaed to appear today, but his fat ass is nowhere to be seen.

That pesky House is at it again with the oversight thing.  Today they're revisiting the safety of our food supply.

List of witnesses here

Watch on C-SPAN3 here

Committee is back from a voting break.  Second panel has just resumed giving opening statements.

First panel was testimony from the Committee's investigators.  Although both sides of the aisle participated in this investigation, only the Dem side guys showed up to present.

I'll give some updates of what I caught from the first panel in the comments or on edit.