Barney Frank: “I think it is important that it be done in the light of day.”

Just as I would say if you say you'd believe in racial discrimination or religious discrimination, any time you are at an agency that's in charge of protecting and enforcing constitutional rights and you express your view that that…

Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.

No one doubts that if a change in administration comes and the new President disagrees with the existing Director, he or she can be removed.

I was particularly pleased that, unlike some others, he did not exclude Muslims from that tradition.