Bob Wise: “I oppose the President's act of granting clemency to terrorists. The acts that these people were convicted of are not…”

“I oppose the President's act of granting clemency to terrorists. The acts that these people were convicted of are not necessarily all that they would have been involved in. Often a U.S. Attorney in order to get a conviction will bring those cases that are most evident, where the evidence is best, even though there were other cases that could have been brought. The only authority of the law is when wrongdoers know that the penalty will be fully carried out. This becomes doubly important in the act of terrorism because it is also essential to remove those people as quickly as possible from the scene so they cannot carry out other groups and so we send a message internationally. Madam Speaker, these people were part of a group that brought death and destruction. They maimed police officers. They should serve the entire term. There is an old saying: "You do the crime, you do the time," and that applies to this situation especially.”