Political Quotes

“Yes. Mr. President, that is the key point. There is a reason why you don't want to adopt the Feinstein amendment: It would preclude us from gaining all the intelligence we could gain by interrogating the individual who has turned on his own country and who would have knowledge of others who might have joined him in that effort or other plans that might be underway. We know from past experience this interrogation can lead to other information to save American lives by preventing future attacks, and it has occurred time and time again. In a moment, I will put a statement in the Record that details a lot of this intelligence we have gathered. It is not as if an American citizen doesn't have the habeas corpus protection--which still attaches--whether or not that individual is taken into military custody. The basic constitutional right of an American citizen is preserved. Yet the government's ability to interrogate and gain intelligence is also preserved by the existing law, by the status of the law that exists today. We would not want to change that law by something such as the Feinstein amendment.”