I think the simpler and more logical decision would be to reconsider fundamentally and try this case where it should be, I think, in military commissions.

I think it is pretty clear that the administration has been slow in making those nominations.

We recognized that we are at war and that our normal criminal justice procedures were not designed for and not appropriate for the new threat.

Well, so I would just say that there is not exactly a clean slate and you decide each case based on the facts of that case.

I think it is important that the executive branch strike the right balance between preserving the rule of law and releasing individuals who we know are determined to harm our Nation, and this is a difficult area.

After 9/11, our Nation fundamentally re-evaluated its approach to terrorism.

This is really significant, the whole thing is.

I hope that you will review that, and I hope the New York case will be the beginning of a re-evaluation of that policy.

I think it is fair to say you would make some individual determinations on cases.

I supported your nomination, but your actions have shaken my confidence in your leadership at the Department of Justice.

You declared in this Committee directly that it was going to be tried in New York, and you defended that as an appropriate way.

You are going to get less actionable intelligence than if you did not do so.

It just makes perfect sense to me that these cases would be tried there.

We need a policy, No. 1.

I think that the key is, we can provide the security, but the central government needs to ensure that the government's part of helping that country is in place.

I am so proud of the Marines. I've had the opportunity, as I know Senators Levin and McCain have, to visit with marines in serious combat areas, and seen their performance, their courage, their dedication.

I share his views, in general, there, and was disturbed to read, recently in the Washington Times, that a general--an Army general--General Bostick--who is the deputy chief in charge of personnel matters, spoke before several hundred…

We need to understand that the remote areas of Afghanistan have never been directly ruled by Kabul; and we're going to have to work with local leaders, much in the way that occurred in Al Anbar.

I have great confidence in you and would sincerely wish to express my appreciation for your fabulous service.

In 2008, I supported a feasibility study to determine if the Black Belt should be designated a national heritage area.

This is a great area of our State. It is an area that I grew up in.

As decisively and with as much clarity as possible, the decision needs to be made that a company has a chance to succeed or it does not.

If you sign a mortgage that gives you a guaranteed right upon failure to pay to take the property back, and that is eroded significantly through a bankruptcy rule change, does that ripple through the system, as some have told us in the…

the freedom to succeed is also the freedom to fail, and people who wish to become rich 1 day aren't always to be provided assistance when they have not been successful.

I believe it is a uniquely historical area.