Political Quotes

“I was assigned to the Pentagon the day 9/11 happened. It was very obvious, sitting there at dead center, that the world had changed. We in the military used to like away games. We liked our wars over there. Suddenly we had a home game and things had to change. A few days later, I was appointed to be head of the Navy's antiterrorism unit. Shortly after that, I was on the ground in Afghanistan flying in with a fellow from the CIA with a suitcase filled with millions of dollars. I wanted the best insurance, the best intelligence. But I felt I always had that because I had worked at the National Security Council, where in counterproliferation and antiterrorism efforts there, I was able to see that whether it had been President Reagan, President Clinton, or the first President Bush, FISA provided that ability. I like this bill. It is very similar to the Senate bill. If someone in Saudi Arabia is talking to someone in Germany and it routes to the United States, we can listen in without asking questions. I remember being in the White House and being frustrated, because if somebody was doing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, we couldn't, under FISA, get a warrant for them. This bill fixes that. And then I step back in emergencies. This bill fixes it in an emergency situation that you don't even have to ask permission; you can just do it. And it extends from 3 days of having to come to the court till 7 days.”