Political Quotes

“I will get the page reference for the Senator. I would like to continue my remarks, if I may. The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee reached these conclusions but this report, especially the public version, doesn't go as far as it might. As the vice chairman, the distinguished Senator from West Virginia, and other colleagues wrote in their additional views: The committee's phase II investigation has been significantly limited by the majority's refusal to examine issues and documents relevant to our inquiry when the issues and documents came close to the White House. The point that is being made today, and has been debated back and forth, is how much of this document that has not been released to the public, should be released. As you can see, several pages, many pages, are blacked out. Information is blacked out. The official word is ``redacted.'' So this debate has gone back and forth about how much should have been redacted, how much should have been released. I will not get into the specifics because I wouldn't want to disclose anything that I should not. But I will say the Senator from Nevada asked by his motion, his amendment, that we consider opening at least one or two pages of this report that reflect directly on statements made by the Bush administration. The other side, Senator Bond and others, have suggested that we should not ask these questions, that we are looking in the rearview mirror about things that happened a long time ago.…”