We need Turkey working with us not against us.

At the very least--at the very least--we can be true to our values and perhaps we will get the Turkish Government's attention by being public in our censure of their human rights record.

Pastor Brunson's detention is wrong, and if he is being held as a hostage, it even is more problematic as far as U.S. relations are concerned.

It strikes me that it is important for the United States to publicly engage with Turkish officials and the Turkish public about the importance of human rights, about the importance of democratic institutions.

Obviously, the urgency of dealing with the security issues, terrorism, our military-to-military--those issues become dominant in our debate, and we sort of do not put the proper attention on the deterioration of human rights.

If that goes forward, it seems like that is a possible violation of section 231 of the Russian-Iran-North Korea sanctions bill.

I agree with your conclusion.

The question is was there a better way of handling this with Turkey.

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It is clear to me, Mr. Haley, that you do need a new consolidated facility, and I appreciate you can't use the piecemeal approach because of the reasons you just said.

I don't think anybody on this Committee wants to delay the FBI having an adequate facility.

I think all of us are concerned about waste. We would like to have that $20 million spent so the FBI could carry out its mission.

To put $2 billion in 1 year's appropriation for one building consolidation is not realistic.

Do you have any idea how much money has been wasted by what we have done in the last 6 years?

Simply put, the Hoover Building is an aging building that no longer meets the needs of the FBI in the 21st century.

Congress can help you in those decisions.

I want to start by just expressing a great deal of frustration as to how this process has gone forward.