The Geneva Convention to me has always been a warehousing agreement between the signatory nations.
I am so afraid that what we are doing here today is going to chill out the legal advice to come in the future.
This is not the whole story.
I also want to acknowledge the tireless work of Senator Feinstein...
Let's have both sides of the story here.
What happened on September 11, 2001, was unprecedented. It was the most vicious attack on our homeland by a foreign entity in the history of...
I believe in the Geneva Convention. I believe that the moment we capture somebody, the obligation falls upon us to abide by the Convention.
I do not question the Chairman's motivation. He is a very fine man, and I think he is rightly disturbed by some of the decisions that were m...
It is intensely frustrating.
The idea that you would read your political opponents into your crime makes no sense.
I do not doubt that you are trying to help the country.
It is not really fair to sit here in the quiet peace of the moment and put ourselves in such a holier-than-thou position, because you do not...
Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, OK? That is part of his legacy, is he thought the Nation was coming apart, and he was right.
If we are going to find out who did what when, we need to find out who was told about it and when they were told about it.
Hopefully it will be bipartisan, not to serve our goals, but to serve those folks who trust us every day for their safety.
It seems that we're in rare agreement here as a committee and everyone who has been in front of us that we need to move ahead with NextGen a...
I think we are absolutely convinced and have indicated as much to the DOT and the Administration, that if we can find a way to have an addit...
The court pushed the country to do something politicians were not brave enough to do.
