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Bob Inglis: “You know, we want to listen to the terrorists. We want to know who they are talking to. If they are talking foreign to…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2006
You know, we want to listen to the terrorists. We want to know who they are talking to. If they are talking foreign to foreign, we clearly have the right to listen in. If they are talking foreign to domestic, we want to listen, but we want a judge to review that. The idea is to have in this separation of powers between the judicial and the executive branch the oversight that the Framers had in mind for our constitutional system. At the end of this war on terror, it is really about whether we have preserved the constitutional system that is going to win the hearts and minds of the world to our point of view. It is crucial that we do that here tonight by voting to see that we have judicial oversight.
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Bob Inglis
South Carolina
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Discussing the need for judicial oversight in surveillance related to the war on terror.

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