Hearing Tuesday - Cynthia Mongongu

Cynthia Mongongu is one of the analysts at LNDD.

She's French, and testimony is through an interpeter. It's painful to sit through, but makes it easier for the transcription. We'll see how it goes...

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DIRECT BY DANIEL DUNN

q: testified before?

a: no.

q: I know you speak some english, but would you prefer french?

a: yes.

q: If you would like to answer in english, go ahead if you are comfortable. We'll cover four major areas here. One, the analysis you did of the S17 A sample, then analysis of the B sample on which you served as the verifying something. lost, then the reprocessing.

Before we go into any of this, where were you born, citizenship, education.

I hate this stuff, but it helps get the flow with the translator working. Actually, we find problems with the interpretation, and they do some thinking -- headphones? speaker near the interpreter, have him sit next to the witness? Other french speakers in the room have complained to Dunn that the translation is bad, and he warns the panel. They want to make do until lunch, the deal, but it goes on and on.

Nope, it's an early break for lunch!