Chuck Hagel: “If I am confirmed, I look forward to working with you on this important issue that affects so many families.”

This is really authoritarian.

One would have to suspect the motive behind the effort to put together this panel.

There will be consequences. There will be repercussions.

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.