Political Quotes

“I thank our leader for giving us the opportunity to continue this colloquy. I just wanted to point out--we were talking about the fact the Army Field Manual is online--that in my experience as New Hampshire's attorney general and prior to that as a murder prosecutor--and I know my colleague served as his State's attorney general as well--no detective or cop on the beat, in a common criminal case--and, of course, we are dealing with a situation where we are at war with terrorists--would ever give a criminal their playbook as to what techniques they would use to question them to get information to see if a crime has been committed and to see that justice is served. Yet here we are in a situation where we have online the techniques from the Army Field Manual while we are at war with terrorists who want to kill us. What we are saying with this amendment is that we need to allow the intelligence professionals to develop techniques, but in a classified annex, consistent with our laws, that would allow them to gather intelligence and not tell our enemies what techniques will be used to gather information from them. Not surprisingly, al-Qaida terrorists have taken advantage of our willingness to tell them publicly on the Internet what will and will not happen during an interrogation should they be captured. Al-Qaida terrorists have familiarized themselves with the interrogation techniques they would confront if captured, and they are training on how to respond.…”