John Kerry: “There is one thing that is important. My colleague said the President ought to make the decision. He has some amendment…”

“There is one thing that is important. My colleague said the President ought to make the decision. He has some amendment that purports to give the President the chance to make the decision. Please understand that our amendment, the amendment of Senator McCain and I and others, permits the President to make the decision. It totally leaves the choice to the President. It says we believe he ought to do it expeditiously. When the President deems expeditious is up to the President. So we leave this in the President's hands. There is no difference there. As to these films that have been alluded to, it is precisely through the Vietnamese we got the films. I was over there and negotiated with them to get them to turn over 319 films that we have now reviewed. We have been able to look through the films. It is precisely because of that that we now have questions about the whereabouts of this person being buried. Now we now have the list--I showed it a few moments ago-- of where people who died in captivity were buried. They also gave us that. So we are going about the task of tracking each of these people. So, the point to be addressed here is how we are best going to continue this process of accountability, whether we see it shut off or whether we continue.”