Claire McCaskill actually said...

"I don`t think there`s any question that the fear and the desire to show dominance played into policy decisions that were made in the years, weeks, months following 9/11."

"And that obviously, is a very dark mark against the American values that most of us, I think, would like to think that we still hold on to in this country."

"But that`s something that this country was willing to embrace, because of the fear and vulnerability they felt as a result of those attacks."

"I think I felt vulnerability, emotional vulnerability. And I think that was an overriding sense in this country in the days after the attack."