Russ Feingold

I'm concerned that abuses and discriminatory policies by Nigeria's security forces, particularly against Muslim communities, could also feed into extremism.

The proposal to combine NBC Universal and Comcast clearly has both vertical and horizontal competition concerns.

I believe all on the committee agree that it's very real, very serious and the administration needs to treat it as such.

I have proposed an independent commission to do just that, and the Senate Intelligence Committee and full Senate have approved this proposal.

The intelligence community must lean forward in this war, and we on congressional oversight committees must back you up.

This is a global conflict, and yes, it is a war--a war of terror these radicals have declared on America and the West.

As members and witnesses are aware, this will be my last annual worldwide threat hearing, as I intend to depart from the Senate upon the completion of the 111th Congress.

The question of chasing down the financing of terrorism is, to this Senator, a primary concern.

By completely removing all restraints on political spending from corporate treasuries, Citizens United has unleashed a threat of enormous spending.

I would hope we would learn from releasing detainees. That was wrong.

I want to note my strong support for the decision to try Khalid Shaykh Mohammed and Abdulmutallab in federal court.

The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United was a tragic error.

I believe that's a mistake our committee will be closely following and hope we will be able to correct that through the legislative process.

We also need counterterrorism policies that are informed by what is actually happening in these countries.

We must get the balance right if you are expected, Mr. Director, to meet the challenges ahead.

That is why, last week, I joined with the chairmen of this committee and the Foreign Relations Committee to introduce a resolution requiring a comprehensive strategy for Yemen.

The threats we are dealing with are far too dangerous to tolerate any kind of sloppy work or careless mistakes.

The Court has denied the people the power to prevent corporations from dominating the entire political system.

If we are to stay ahead of al Qaeda, we must respond by improving our intelligence capabilities and developing better informed and more comprehensive counterterrorism strategies.

I guess I go back just to comment, do we have the resources? Do we have the capacity to follow this?

We simply cannot afford our current military escalation in Afghanistan.

The Court told us that democratic debate works best when voters know the source of the political messages they receive.

Unfortunately, there are some who still strongly oppose making these necessary changes within the Congress to serve our intelligence community better.

Until we integrate the intelligence community with the ways we openly gather information, radicalization, I think, we'll keep being one step behind al-Qa'ida.

I emphasize enemy combatants must be questioned to the fullest by the intelligence community before--if they are Mirandized, before they are Mirandized and given an attorney.