John Ensign
The Public Record
I just wanted to make sure that if we had intercepted a conversation between the two of them overseas, even if it---- it would never be protected by First Amendment.
It doesn't make any sense to me that somebody would have to go through secondary screening to get into the country, but they didn't have to go through secondary screening to get on an airplane.
Well, if radical Islam is what is--they've called for this jihad against the West--against us, against American values-- we'd better recognize that.
If there is an ideology that is underlying what is happening here, we'd better recognize that, and we'd better call it what it is.
I wanted to make a couple of points on this because I do think it is so serious a matter, that is seems too often that people are not thinking through things or whatever on our security.
I think what Senator Lieberman talked about, if these policies and procedures are in place, it does take pressure off somebody in the future.





