Dianne Feinstein

What I would like to do is really encourage a partnership between DOJ and us in trying to see what we can do to toughen Federal law.

I am embarrassed to say, but in a way, you know, California has been sort of the gang capital and exporting gangs.

I would be very interested in what you think we can do and hopefully to work with me on legislation to protect individual privacy.

I find that untenable that the FBI cannot just send us things straight on, that it has got to go through some review process at Justice.

Oh, it is just the conflict over the seat.

This personal choice of residence, essentially an arbitrary occurrence, should not result and cannot result in a State losing a judgeship to another State.

Simply put, any President has to know which Senators to seek advice from on these appointments.

Thank you, Chairman Murray, for ensuring that California will not be left holding the bag, which is not a fair way for the Federal Government to treat the States. Were an appropriations bill to prevent the Federal Government from honoring…

The NSA has produced and declassified a chart, which I would like to make available to all members.

I would like to begin by putting a couple of letters in the record.

Sure, right. And we could do that in the private sector, too, how often this happens.

I think we would appreciate that.

I remember how little information we had.

Thank you for providing me, a former member of this esteemed committee, with the opportunity to testify on this extremely important piece of legislation.

I asked him, 'Do you want to go forward with this? Do you want to go forward with this and subject yourself to this kind of hearing and this kind of grilling in public under oath?' And he said, 'I am eager to appear.'

The Senate has twice before found him qualified for Senate-confirmed positions, as Senator Feinstein has said.

I believe it is important for us to proceed with the nomination hearing today.

At the end of the day, I am interested in nothing but the truth.

I think it will send a signal that finally we have learned something.

I have believed from the days of Colonel Davis down there that the military commission is an ineffective instrument.

Isn't it true that some of the 80 Gitmo detainees who have not been cleared for transfer now... can only be prosecuted in a Federal criminal court?

Congress has made closing Guantanamo more difficult because of these transfer restrictions.

I also know that Guantanamo contributes nothing positively. It contributes nothing that a Federal prison could not do better.

I profoundly disagree with you.

I believe the facility should be closed.