Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Department of Justice announced earlier this week that Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, an accused member of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, has been indicted on charges of providing material support to Al-Shabaab and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, conspiring to teach and demonstrate the making of explosives, possessing firearms and explosives in furtherance of crimes of violence, and other violations of Federal law. He will be tried for these offenses in Federal court in New York. Warsame is a Somali national who was captured in the gulf region in late April and taken to a U.S. Navy vessel for detention and interrogation. The Department of Defense has stated that the interrogation was conducted by an interagency team comprised of U.S. military personnel, with assistance from the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. After the completion of this interrogation and a hiatus of several days, Warsame was turned over to a team of FBI officials for law enforcement questioning, and in that he waived his Miranda rights and continued to talk. This case appears to be an example of our national security and law enforcement teams working together in the manner we would hope they would toward the twin objectives of collecting critical intelligence information and ensuring a successful criminal prosecution of the detainee.…”