I think it is absolutely essential to protect the operations and methods that are employed day in, day out by the courageous people who serve us in the intelligence community.
I don't think our government ought to be able to write secret law.
if the public thinks that the law is this, and the law ends up actually being that, that's a prescription for trouble.
the government's official interpretation of the law should be public.
The American people are being kept in the dark about their government's interpretation of a major surveillance law.
When members of the public find out how their government is secretly interpreting the PATRIOT Act, they're going to insi...
Those tools include the creation of organic legislation by the U.S. Congress for this agency.
the application of secret law is wrong, because that's what I'm raising in the letter.
It is good to have my old seatmate from this committee here.
I also believe that all intelligence activities have to be conducted within the boundaries of public law.
That hasn't worked.