Eric Holder

I believe these are all new positions. The 1,200 or so, the 1,187 are all new positions with regard to agents and attorneys.

These are, as you indicated, not ordinary task forces.

The task force that is making the individualized determinations on the detainees is supposed to be done by January of next year.

We have to do something on the demand side.

I spend every waking moment of my life now thinking about how I can ensure the safety of the American people.

Profiling is simply not good law enforcement.

I look forward to working in partnership with this subcommittee and with Congress as a whole.

I think our administration shares your concern about the use of that doctrine.

Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to highlight areas of the President's fiscal year 2010 Budget for the U.S. Department of Justice.

I think the billion dollars that the Recovery Act provides will give us a leg up on the efforts that we have to use to reinvigorate the COPS program.

We need to come up with ways in which we coordinate our efforts so that we can be most effective.

it is our intention not to prosecute and not to investigate those people.

We don't have any plans to release terrorists.

Hypothetically, that might be true.

It will not be the intention of this administration or this Attorney General to place anybody in any part of this world who is a risk to the community.

Yes. We support the Walsh Act. We have asked for $381 million, which is a 5 percent increase over fiscal year 2009.

We would obviously be consulting with State and local officials, and Federal officials to do that.

We are not going to put at risk the safety of the people of this country in any determination we make.

I think the billion dollars that the Recovery Act provides will give us a leg up on the efforts that we have to use to reinvigorate the COPS program.

It is something that will be a priority for this administration as well.

I share the concern that you have expressed, and I have raised that with Secretary Napolitano.

I will not permit the criminalization of policy differences.

I spend every waking moment of my life now thinking about how I can ensure the safety of the American people.

We support the Walsh Act. We have asked for $381 million, which is a 5 percent increase over fiscal year 2009.

We want to work in partnership, and I truly mean that--in partnership--so that we establish priorities to carry out the work that we think is important.