Political Quotes

“Absolutely. No question about it. And if you do bring them to the United States, I guarantee that is the last bit of interrogation of any of those individuals that we will ever see. The Senator mentioned bin Laden. I remember at a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee where the issue of bin Laden came up during a presentation by the current administration's Secretary of Defense. I asked the question with regard to Guantanamo Bay, and said: If you captured bin Laden tomorrow, what would you do with him? And to his credit, the Secretary of Defense looked me straight in the eye and said: Gee, Senator, I guess we would have to send him to Guantanamo. And he was right. There is nowhere in America where bin Laden would have been welcomed in the county jail or some Federal institution. I don't think there is any question about that. The 164 who are there today, in my mind, fit in that same category. Some of these individuals have never said one word to an interrogator since they have been there. Some of them--most of them, in fact--have been very open, and we still are gathering intelligence from them. But if we transfer them to the United States, that is the last we will hear from them.”