Thank you for the opportunity to testify. We look forward to working with Senator Wyden and the Committee to address the...
I also believe that all intelligence activities have to be conducted within the boundaries of public law.
That hasn't worked.
I have come to the conclusion they are legitimate.
It is good to have my old seatmate from this committee here.
Those tools include the creation of organic legislation by the U.S. Congress for this agency.
The ball is in your court to do this in a hurry.
I hope that you will do more than work with just the President's task force because I think that is constructive.
Isn't acceptable to me.
When members of the public find out how their government is secretly interpreting the PATRIOT Act, they're going to insi...
The American people are being kept in the dark about their government's interpretation of a major surveillance law.
the government's official interpretation of the law should be public.
if the public thinks that the law is this, and the law ends up actually being that, that's a prescription for trouble.
I don't think our government ought to be able to write secret law.
I think it is absolutely essential to protect the operations and methods that are employed day in, day out by the courag...
I think business as usual is unacceptable.
I think most Members of Congress aren't aware of how it's being applied either, even though they're being asked to vote ...
I think secret law is an increasing, you know, problem in this country.