I support your nomination and I wish you well.

You're going to start tongues to wagging, so just a -- just a word of friendly advice.

I'll be interested in what Mr. Gates has to say about that. I'll be more interested in that than I will controversies of a generation ago.

At some point we have to ask ourselves the question, do they have it in them to forge one country in a common destiny, or is that beyond their capabilities?

I believe the courts have already ruled, have they not, that you have the ability to, for example, if someone puts their trash out on the curb, the courts have ruled you've got no privacy expectation on that; is that correct?

So one of the things here is whether mail should be treated as other things that are put out and once it leaves your zone of privacy.

I look forward to hearing from Chairman Greenspan, and I will reserve other comments until the question period.

The Pentagon simply failed to anticipate the magnitude of the challenge that we face there.

the Pentagon simply failed to anticipate the magnitude of the challenge that we face there.

It's a level of obstruction that can make it understandable why the MPs would be confused.

What exactly does that mean? How do you have control over a facility but not the people who are running it?

They put these MPs in there, undertrained, overpopulated and put them in a very difficult situation.