I wish the President would also follow your advice because when he said there is not a smidgen of corruption on national television talking about an ongoing investigation, not only did he undermine people's confidence in the efficacy of…

But why not just exercise your prosecutorial discretion and not prosecute the case period?

But you do not have discretion on whether to follow the law or not. That is my point.

I think he should have taken a pass and said the exact same thing that you said when Jimmy Jordan just asked you the question.

Your Department is asked to enforce certain statutes, Title 18 statutes. You have prosecutorial discretion.

I just think you are putting your AUSAs in a tough position, but as is always the case, I could be wrong.

I would just ask you under this general heading of respect for the rule of law that you would come to like-minded Members of the Judiciary Committee and say we need to expand the safety valve because we have a law that does what your memo…

But we are wonderful friends I think, in part, because we hold out this hope that the law will trump politics, that it is the greatest equalizing force in our country, and it is the greatest unifying force in our country.

Doesn't that make more sense?

We would have to trust the Libyan Government and Administration to appropriately vet which Libyans would be allowed to learn to fly planes and study nuclear technology.

has enough changed to lift this longstanding ban? Why now? Is post-Revolutionary Libya secure enough to justify the change?

the visa restriction simply does not differentiate between the Libyan forces we are trying to help and the forces we are trying to defeat.