Chuck Schumer: “We know what will not be in it: the two things law enforcement requested, roving multipoint wiretaps and taggants to…”

“We know what will not be in it: the two things law enforcement requested, roving multipoint wiretaps and taggants to trace black powder explosives. These are the two things that law enforcement wanted. These are the two things the Republican majority will not put in this bill. It is a rerun of the last antiterrorism bill, where they could not bring themselves to do what the law enforcement people wanted. There has been a big reversal, my fellow Americans. Democrats stand with law enforcement, Republicans are running away from it. The bill today will be a weak Milquetoast bill just like the one we passed 3 months ago, and the only people who will suffer will be the American people.”