Senate Proceeding 05-19-09 on May 19th, 2009 :: 3:01:50 to 3:06:10
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Richard Shelby: president's reckless campaign promise to shut down the guantanamo bay detention facility and determine the fate of the 241 tear riksz held there -- terrorists being held there. i also believe that the funding for the department of justice to carry out the president's executive orders is just the beginning of efforts to begin the investigation o

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Speech By: Richard Shelby

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Richard Shelby: officials who interrogated terrorists that killed or attempted to kill american?? cizens. in a department of justice hearing before the appropriations subcommittee on may the 7th, i asked the attorney general if he knew about or sanctioned any of the renditions that occurred when he served as the deputy attorney

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Richard Shelby: general during the clinton administration. he said he did but could not provide specifics and would get back to the committee with a response. we're stem cell waiting for that response. yesterday, in following up with that, i sent a letter to the attorney general many of the unanswered questions

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Richard Shelby: left after the hearing. i ask unanimous consent that the letter be printed at this point in the record, mr. president. renditions and interrogations were carried out under attorney general holder's watch when he was the i have serious concerns that the attorney general could eventually be leading

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Richard Shelby: investigations and prosecutions against u.s. officials who carried out the very same actions he approved during his time as deputy attorney general. yet the executive orders failed to include any investigation of his role in the proven renditions of detainees and terrorists that occurred during the previous -- his previous

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Richard Shelby: tenure at the justice department. mr. president, just go back in time. the first terrorist attack on the world trade center occurred on february the 26th, 1993. we later saw the bombings of the of the u.s. cole, the embassies in

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Richard Shelby: africa, khobar towers, take place before the caked tack on the world trade -- the attack on the world trade center. many of the terrorists who completed his attacks trained at the very same camps as those held at guantanamo bay. when i asked the government whether he had the immediate

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Richard Shelby: authority to admit someone who had received terrorist training into the united states, he would not answer the question directly. he indicated he would not release anyone who he thought was a terrorist in the united states. "who he thought." all of the detainees being held at guantanamo bay i believe are terrorists. does anyone but the

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Richard Shelby: administration and the attorney general really believe anything to the contrary? mr. president, i think it's misguided to close a facility housing terrorists when there is nolan. all of the prisoners housed at guantanamo bayre terrorists. terrorists attacked our nation

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Richard Shelby: and killed our citizens and pose a threat still national security. we should not, i believe, mr. president, let this attorney general or anyone else brand these terrorists as victims worthy of living in the united nor should we follow t plans of the director of national

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Richard Shelby: intelligence, dennis blair, who suggested the terrorists -- that terrorists being provided with taxpayer-funded subsidies to establish a new life here in america. until we're clear about attorney general holder's role in renditions and in interrogations prior to 9/11 and what this administra

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Richard Shelby: do with these terrorists once guantanamo is closed, mr. president, i believe it's premature to provide this funding. and chairman for his action today, and i believe the senate is on the right track and i hope we stay there. i yield the

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Richard Shelby: absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll.