Bennie Thompson actually said...

We live in troubling times. I have heard concerns that today's hearing will stoke a climate of fear and distrust in the Muslim community.

We cannot give this lie a place to rest.

The claim that prisons will generate scores of terrorists spilling out into the streets of our cities--the position described at the opening...

If prisons were a cause of jihad radicalization, even a weak cause, then the country would be rife with terrorists.