John Conyers: “Mr. Chairman, the reason Attorney Generals Levy, Richardson, Katzenbach, and Civiletti have explained they tried hard to…”

“Mr. Chairman, the reason Attorney Generals Levy, Richardson, Katzenbach, and Civiletti have explained they tried hard to explain that what the Members are trying to do is unconstitutional. I know you want to fry them as soon as you can, I know that any time is too long. How dare a Member of Congress that serves on the committee that makes the law on this get up and say in broad daylight that it takes too long to execute a person in America, under the process we have? And instead of bringing this up on its own merits, we wait until we get an emotionally charged piece of legislation and bring up habeas corpus, which has no relationship to terrorism whatsoever. How long is too long? Mr. Chairman, by the way, Attorney General Edwin Meese, did he join the gentleman on that, too?”