José E. Serrano: “The least important thing I can think of, the least important, is that the American public doesn't think too well of…”

“The least important thing I can think of, the least important, is that the American public doesn't think too well of Congress right now, and going into a secret session is not going to help that. But that is the least important thing. It almost sounds like we need a secret session prior to the secret session to tell the membership what we are allowed to do and say after the secret session. Some of us who oppose many of the things that have happened since September 11 have already drawn conclusions as to what we think is happening or not happening. I am not privy to all the intelligence and I don't think anyone is, and there are some folks in our government and some agencies historically that I don't trust. So I will never really know what the truth is. But I have a sense of what the truth may be and what the danger is of what we are doing in this country at this point. So my concern is, at what point does what I feel and know become part of what is discussed at this session, and therefore if I keep discussing it in public I have now violated the secret session that I wasn't supposed to violate?”