On the recordNovember 19, 2013
Well, it certainly is. I think the Senator and I need to be very clear with our colleagues here as well as the American public. When it comes to the cost of detaining terrorists who carried out the horrific attacks of September 11, I think the American people are well prepared to use their taxpayer dollars to house guys such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has admitted to planning the September 11 attacks. If we house him in a prison here inside the United States and he gets Mirandized, I am sure the first thing he is going to do is to get a lawyer. The Senator and I are both lawyers, and we would be foolish not to tell our client to hush up, don't talk anymore. And that is exactly what he would do. So the cost of detaining individuals who ripped this country apart on September 11, 2001, is not a consideration, in my mind, from the standpoint of whether we should house those folks for the rest of their lives.
