Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I would say to the Senator from Massachusetts, Amen. Amen. We can't play around with our national security by holding somebody's legislative ideal as a means of holding up the national security and holding the national security of this country hostage. electronic devices and privacy rights Mr. President, I came to talk about another issue. In the first part of the week, the Washington Post had an article that followed a series of articles in other newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, about a device that was given certification by the Federal Communications Commission called a stingray. This device, when used properly by law enforcement--specifically, the FBI--not only can locate and absorb the content of communications over cell phones but can also locate the specific location of that cell phone. It does so by making the cell phone think that it, the device, is the cell phone tower. So instead of the cell phone radio waves going to the normal cell phone tower, they would come to this device called a stingray. If used properly, it can be used to go after the bad guys-- terrorists and criminals. Of course, that is one of the reasons this device was created and certified by the Federal Communications Commission. Part of the protections, as used by the FBI and local law enforcement, to get content is to treat it as if they were going to break into somebody's home to get evidence.…”