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.
The intelligence community must lean forward in this war, and we on congressional oversight committees must back you up.
I guess I go back just to comment, do we have the resources? Do we have the capacity to follow this?
Five votes is not a license for vengeance. Five votes is also not a license to do anything that you want to do.
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 com...
This is a global conflict, and yes, it is a war--a war of terror these radicals have declared on America and the West.
We also need counterterrorism policies that are informed by what is actually happening in these countries.
Until we integrate the intelligence community with the ways we openly gather information, radicalization, I think, we'll keep being one step...
The threats we are dealing with are far too dangerous to tolerate any kind of sloppy work or careless mistakes.
I have proposed an independent commission to do just that, and the Senate Intelligence Committee and full Senate have approved this proposal...
We must get the balance right if you are expected, Mr. Director, to meet the challenges ahead.