Patrick Leahy

I would also put in the record a number of military and other national security and terrorism experts, their support for the closing of Guantanamo.

We have a compromise bill that restores important protections that I helped craft to protect bloggers and freelance journalists.

I am glad to see finally, after all these years, that they are being prosecuted in the same way Timothy McVeigh, who committed mass murder in this country, was prosecuted.

When people commit murder, commit murder here in the United States, commit murder on this scale, they should be prosecuted.

I expect to direct prosecutors to seek the ultimate and most uncommon penalty for these heinous crimes.

I can assure you as Chairman of this Committee that I want a successful prosecution. I also want to know what happened.

We should and we will conduct responsible oversight.

America's response to these acts is not to cower in fear, but to show the world that we are strong, resilient, and determined.

Will you commit to share with this Committee, if in your investigation--yours, the Justice Department--you find that there were things that were missed that should have been picked up prior to this tragedy?

I am not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial, and no one else needs to be afraid either.

I want the results of the investigation ordered by the President.

We are the most powerful Nation on Earth. We have a justice system that is the envy of the world.

I support the Attorney General's decision to pursue justice against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.

I encouraged the Obama administration and the many supporters of a Federal shield law to work together to reach consensus.

We would have thought that by now we would have seen a curtailing of the rate of post-conviction DNA exonerations.

I have to tell you that that does not mean that the need for post-conviction DNA testing is being diminished.

Not every case has DNA.

Today, the Judiciary Committee is going to focus on a vital component of our jurisdiction, which, of course, is to ensure that our criminal justice system works fairly and effectively to advance justice.

You want to convict the guilty. You do not want to make a mistake on getting an innocent person in there.

I believe that the system works better for all involved when each side is represented well and all evidence is considered.

It is an outrage when an innocent person is punished.

I introduced the Innocence Protection Act in 2000 with the primary goal of making sure that death penalty cases are conducted fairly.

I am especially pleased that we will be able to welcome to the Judiciary Committee today Judge Christina Reiss from Essex Junction, Vermont.

On rooting out fraud you are going to have strong bipartisan support here in the Senate.

I have found over the years that so many times these areas of fraud, whether in this area or in military contracting or any other area, the most important information often comes from an insider, from a whistleblower through the False…