Jon Kyl: “We are going to be asking unanimous consent to withdraw amendment No. 3801, which is an amendment Senator Chambliss and…”

“We are going to be asking unanimous consent to withdraw amendment No. 3801, which is an amendment Senator Chambliss and I offered to deal with the problem of overlapping and redundant civil rights and privacy investigations, entities, or individuals that would be added to those that already exist to protect civil rights and privacy in the national intelligence director office and other offices of the intelligence community. The head of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, the Executive Director, noted one of the biggest problems we have with our intelligence collection and analysis when he said: We also found-- 'We' meaning the 9/11 Commission-- that the 9/11 story illustrated the danger of risk aversion from constant worry of being investigated. We gave several important examples of officials who overinterpreted existing legal constraints for fear of exceeding their authority. We were also astonished by the extent to which CIA officials, beyond any others in the Government, already conduct their work in a manner that anticipates and guards themselves for the prospect of future investigations.”