Russ Feingold: “I was pleased to hear the Attorney General's announcement of the first indictment of a co-conspirator to the terrorist…”

“I was pleased to hear the Attorney General's announcement of the first indictment of a co-conspirator to the terrorist attacks on our Nation on September 11. Zacarias Moussaoui, who was detained by the FBI for carrying a false passport before September 11 and has been in custody since that time, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia. I commend the Justice Department, the FBI, and our intelligence services, for their tireless work in seeking to bring Moussaoui and other terrorists to justice. We have known about Mr. Moussaoui since a few short days after September 11, but we still do not know the identities of hundreds of other individuals still held in detention, the vast majority of whom have no link to September 11 or al-Qaida. And so I rise today to speak about the Justice Department's detention of these individuals in connection with its investigation of the September 11 attacks and the administration's continued refusal to provide a full accounting of who these people are and why they have been detained.”