Political Quotes

“So in a situation where an American citizen goes to Pakistan and gets radicalized in a madrasah, gets on a plane and flies back to Dulles Airport, gets off the plane and takes up arms against his fellow citizens, then goes to the mall and starts randomly shooting people, the law we are trying to preserve is current law, which would say if the experts decide it is in the Nation's best interests, they can hold that American citizen as they were able to hold the American citizen helping the Nazis and gather intelligence. That is a right already given. Senator Feinstein's amendment, even though I don't think it is well written, could possibly take that away. That is 1031. But what we are saying is, we want to preserve the ability of the intelligence community to hold that person under the law of war and find out: Is anybody else coming? Are you the only one coming? What do you know? What madrasah did you go to? How did you get over? How did you get back? We want to preserve their ability to hold that person under the law of war for interrogation. But we also concede, if they think it is better to give them their Miranda rights, they can. That is what the legislation we create will do. Does the Senator agree with that?”