Political Quotes

“Mr. President, there is some validity here, and the bill begins to cover some of it, but there is more we can do to fix this. In Crossfire Hurricane, particularly in the case of Carter Page, the FBI agents lied to the court, and they inserted a dossier that proved to be opposition research, which you no longer can do under the reforms of this bill. You can no longer also include things like press media accounts of the case before them. The function of this would be, on the other hand--and this is a real application because they would have probably brought it beyond that setting. Manuel Rocha was a spy in the Cuban Government, working for us as an Ambassador. Now he would have some advocate there arguing on his behalf in the court, someone who doesn't even have to have an intelligence background, and you may potentially even have to provide that advocate with intelligence information as exculpatory even though it really isn't exculpatory. So this, as drafted, is problematic in the context of what we are trying to fix here, especially in light of the reforms that are already coming in as part of the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Virginia.”