He wanted something more for what he gave up.

Well, seems to me that unless somebody reads the act in a different way--it was a foreign policy decision, after the compassionate release, to allow al-Megrahi to physically leave Scotland.

So, if someone were to be considered for, or in receipt of, chemotherapy treatment, it wouldn't be administered in the last 3 months of their lives.

They knew that the Libyans wanted al-Megrahi. They knew about this whole debate upon how the Prisoner Transfer Agreement would be constructed.

If we don't know how a guilty terrorist could go free, then we will not be able to hold international terrorists accountable in the future.

We're absolutely--Mr. Chairman, evidenced by you and by Senator Gillibrand here and people from this committee--determined to find out.

This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order.

We are a nation founded on the rule of law; and when the law and our notion of justice is turned on its head, for whatever reason, we believe it is our obligation to turn it back again.

Many questions surrounding the circumstances of Megrahi's release remain unanswered.

We believe that the fundamental truth remains that the decision to release Megrahi back to Libya was a grievous mistake.

So, in essence, it was our desire to seek a prosecution that had us make the determination, based on what the British were telling us, that this was the best way to move forward.

Mr. al-Megrahi received chemotherapy in Scotland just prior to his release.