Bennie Thompson actually said...

"I am writing to strongly urge you to reconsider holding the narrowly focused and reckless hearings planned by the Committee on Homeland Security."

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

"The claim that prisons will generate scores of terrorists spilling out into the streets of our cities--the position described at the opening of this paper--seems to be false, or at least overstated."

"I am particularly troubled that much of the current vitriol has been directed toward the President and the First Lady."