Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to agree with the comments made by our colleague from California, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and urge all our colleagues, in the time that will exist between now and the time we are able to take up this matter again, to accept her invitation to be briefed and to appreciate some of the things that our intelligence community goes through in order to try to protect the American citizens. The points she made are all valid from my service on the Intelligence Committee. I am aware of what she has been talking about. I would just like to repeat three things. I will not bother to go into all the detail because she made the points very well. Roving wiretaps--the name does not sound very good--are simply the recognition that today you have a lot of throwaway cell phones. It used to be you had one telephone hanging up in the kitchen or someplace, so when the police got a warrant to tap your telephone, that was the only phone you had. Now these guys take phones, use them once, throw them away, and then get another one or they have access to lots of different phones. It is simply a recognition that today people use lots of different phones rather than one, and, therefore, the warrant applies to any of the phones of a particular individual. The ``lone wolf'' terrorist exception Senator Feinstein explained very well. I wrote that provision.…”