Dianne Feinstein

It is time to lift those restrictions and move forward with shutting down Guantanamo.

But if you are going to keep them in Guantanamo, they cannot be tried by a military commission.

Presidential leadership is essential, but Congress needs to trust the Commander-in-Chief to make these decisions.

I believe it violates international norms and medical ethics.

This is a massive waste of money.

This is not the American way, and I would submit that Guantanamo has been a recruiting tool for terrorists.

I think as most people know, the way I do these judgeships is that we have a bipartisan screening committee of attorneys on both sides.

We have a law that has essentially taken the courts out of any adjudication in this issue.

The so-called enhanced interrogation techniques should never be used--past, present, or future.

This goes on week after week and month after month.

Well, let me just say it is within all of our job scopes to care about how the United States of America acts.

They have been adjudged so, and they have no place to go.

It was the urging of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, she being a camper, that moved us to start a petition to gather support for repairing the flood damaged campgrounds as funded by Congress.

I, as you do, believe that both these programs are legal, that they are carefully overseen.

I have come to believe that the only way we prevent these attacks is good intelligence.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Why would elected officials reward gangbangers who are in the country illegally with amnesty and a pathway to citizenship?

The NSA only uses section 215 for phone call records, not for Google searches or other things.

I think it is really very important to show the cases where this has been used and has been effective.

Cyber legislation is needed for that. We need to be able to share that information, and all of us need it because we all will have a role there.

The section 215 business records provision was created in 2001 in the PATRIOT Act for tangible things.

The President of the United States in his budget message to the Congress has asked for $13 billion in order to execute the cybersecurity strategy across the agencies of the Federal Government.

Director Mueller of the FBI said that cyber crime will eventually surpass terrorism as our number one threat to America.

If I may quickly, Senator. It is my understanding you have the metadata.

The President has issued an Executive order. But just because authorizing has not happened does not mean that nothing is happening.