9-11 Commission Audio

Audible.com has free downloads of the 9-11 Commission Hearings. The downsides are that you need an Audible.com account and that you get DRM'ed files that should be Free. I know it will show up in a better format soon and I understand that Audible is making them available not as a public service but as a loss leader to get people to make accounts and maybe get an up-sell or two.

Eventually the 9-11 Commission site will have the video archive, and they have the written testimony from the 8th session (the juicy one with Powell and Clarke, etc.) in PDF right now. The video is archives in Windows Media format now and they claim Real format is coming soon. Oh joy.

The good news is that, and I could be wrong, the hearing is public and free of copyright. So we can take what we want from the government's site and transcode everything. Not so much with the Audible format since I'm pretty sure they can copyright their "performance." Again, I can and probably am wrong about this so don't take this as law or anything. I'm just sayin'...