Angie Craig: “the other morning on the ``Today'' show-- which many of us wake up and listen to as it relates to the morning news or…”

“the other morning on the ``Today'' show-- which many of us wake up and listen to as it relates to the morning news or the late-breaking events--there was a Puerto Rican terrorist who the day before had just been released from prison under the clemency that President Clinton had granted him. During that interview, he was consistently asked if he was remorseful, if he was concerned about the lives of American law enforcement officers that had been taken by him and other terrorists such as himself. In all instances, he did not answer. He went on to speak of the cause and the movement and why independence was more important than anything else--independence as it relates to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, not his personal independence. But never once did he speak in any tone that would suggest he was sorry, only that he was glad to be free. I think anyone who had been imprisoned by a court and found guilty would want that. I listened to him and grew increasingly more angry--and I must use that word ``anger''--at a President who is at this instant once again trying to have it both ways on an issue that I know the Presiding Officer and I are very concerned about--and that is the misuse of second amendment rights in our country by citizens of our country. And oh, by the way, that Puerto Rican terrorist is an American citizen, is a citizen of the United States by birth in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.”