By John M.
First of all, I want to reemphasize everything Laurie just said. This is not a new threat, and this is not a threat we did not know about. Saddam Hussein has, in many ways, openly dreamed of mass death in the United States. He has shared his dreams with his nation and the world many times. We also know he has actively planned to do so many times, and Laurie’s book is a rather convincing argument that he is active and successfully implemented plans to do so as well. - American Enterprise Institute then- Research Fellow David Wurmser, September 14, 2001
Housing Doom is pleased to report that over the weekend we were able to wrangle the AEI Interns’ Transcripts (all 573 of them, more or less) into date order, with navigation tools. The set is now a section our Page "Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide".
UPDATE (1515 zulu): I’m seeing the following when I click on random links from the list. I have a nasty feeling this may not be temporary.

Dear Mr. AEI webmaster,
I trust that the below list will be of assistance in re-building your collection of broken official transcript links
All the best, John from Doom North
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LATER: Just realized that at least some of the below may still be available for a few hours or days. As an experiment, I chose the dullest looking transcript I could find, used (corrected 9/29) …
right-arrow-> "Copy link location"
… and fed the URL to Google’s generic web search, yielding the Google Cache version, which should be hanging around for a while.

Now if these go away later this afternoon I’ll really start to worry. Meanwhile, Doomers can still enjoy a can’t lose cure for insomnia.
The above remarkable quote is from the transcript for "Press Briefing on Terrorist Attacks" (September 14, 2001). Doomers are invited to datamine the transcripts (heck, just skim the list of titles
) for snippets you’d like to share with us on the comments below. I expect that professional researchers will be again diving into the Institute’s stock of official transcripts once AEI’s webmaster gets them back up on the main part of the site (and at least a couple of unfortunate graduate students will likely be invited to review all of them). However, we can get a sneak peek right now.
My main Doomish task, of course, is to dig into this stuff to find the analysis of AEI bank and fiscal pundits like Peter Wallison, Alex Pollock and their colleagues where it relates to subprime and mortgage finance. Over the years I’ve found lots of good stuff and I’m hoping to dredge up further resources. However, it’s hard to keep from noticing things out of the corner of my eye, like this February 15, 2007 remark from then-POTUS himself.
… Thank you, Mr. President. (Laughter.) That’s got kind of a nice ring to it. (Laughter.) Chris, thanks for inviting me. I appreciate the chance to come and share some thoughts with the men and women of AEI. I admire AEI a lot — I’m sure you know that. After all, I have been consistently borrowing some of your best people. More than 20 AEI scholars have worked in my administration. A few have returned to the fold — you’ll have to wait two more years to get another one to return to the fold. Dick Cheney is occupied. (Laughter.) He sends his best.
So with that evidence for AEI’s influence during the decade when these transcripts were being laid down, here’s the whole list in date order (as usual, navigation links work best when the whole post is exposed).
- Go To Year — 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 20009
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- 1999 -
- 01Dec99 - Export Controls and the Future of America’s Defense
- 09Dec99 - After Seattle: Prospects for the Millennium Trade Round
- 2000 - Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- January
- 04Jan00 - How Would John McCain Govern? Transition to Governing Project
- 11Jan00 - How Would Al Gore Govern? Transition to Governing Project
- 13Jan00 - How Would George W. Bush Govern? Transition to Governing Project
- 18Jan00 - Newt Gingrich: Reflections of a Private Citizen
- 20Jan00 - Do Export Controls Still Matter?
- February
- March
- April
- 13Apr00 - In Praise of Public Life: With Senator Joseph Lieberman
- May
- 03May00 - The Presidential Difference
- June
- 14Jun00 - How Would Al Gore Govern in Foreign Policy? Transition to Governing Project
- 22Jun00 - How Would George W. Bush Govern in Foreign Policy? Transition to Governing Project
- July
- 31Jul00 - How Would George W. Bush Govern?
- August
- 16Aug00 - How Would Al Gore Govern?
- September
- October
- 02Oct00 - How Would Bush and Gore Govern?
- 25Oct00 - Preparing to Be President: The Memos of Richard E. Neustadt
- 27Oct00 - The Permanent Campaign and Its Future
- 30Oct00 - Presidential Transitions: What We Did — The 1980 and 1988 Transitions
- November
- 06Nov00 - Is the Israeli-Palestinian "Peace" Process Dead, and If So, What Next?
- 29Nov00 - Jiang Zemin’s Legacy: Beijing’s Latest Policies on Reform, Succession, and Taiwan
- December
- 01Dec00 - Japan Policy Challenges for the New Administration
- 2001 - Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- January
- 16Jan01 - Assessing the Bush Transition: Transition to Governing Project
- 25Jan01 - The Presidential Appointments Process: Computer Software to Help Appointees
- February
- 14Feb01 - Ethics: The Revolving Door Rules
- 28Feb01 - Productivity and Health Care: The Value of Medical Technology
- March
- 05Mar01 - How Would President Bush’s Tax Plan Affect the Economy?
- 13Mar01 - Korea Policy Challenges for the New Administration
- April
- 18Apr01 - Assessing the Bush Foreign Policy Transition: Transition to Governing Project
- 19Apr01 - Productivity and Health Care: Reinventing a Quality Health System
- May
- 03May01 - Challenges Facing China’s Market Reforms
- 14May01 - Transformational Government versus Managerial Government: The Key Challenge for America’s Future
- 15May01 - How Is Bush Governing? Transition to Governing Project
- June
- 04Jun01 - Updating Nationalizing Mortgage Risk
- 07Jun01 - Are We All "Compassionate Conservatives" Now?
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