Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, the amendment that I have put forward here requires the FBI to report to Congress on a quarterly basis rather than an annual basis the number of U.S. person queries conducted. We simply want to have more information. We simply want to have the ability to look at this and understand whether the FBI is actually conducting these the proper way. We think quarterly is more efficient and more effective. By the way, we extended it, it does not kick in for 1 year. The FBI was complaining it was too burdensome. The FBI couldn't get this done. They got a $200 million new headquarters, but they couldn't figure out how to get this done, so we gave them 1 year. Great, so you have a year; quarterly reporting. It also grants the chairs and ranking members of the Committees on Judiciary and Intelligence in the House and the Senate, the ability to go to the FISC. Now, the problem is the chairman is going to say they oppose this. I know this because they put out their propaganda last night saying: This amendment would result in an unprecedented expansion of access to details on the most sensitive and highly classified current intelligence operations being undertaken by the government to numerous congressional staff which raises significant counterintelligence concerns. We can't have congressional staff in the FISC. No, no, no, that would be terrible.…”