Senate Proceeding on Nov 19th, 2009 :: 7:00:20 to 7:06:20
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Christopher S. Bond: objection. the presiding officer: the senator from missouri is recognized mr. bond: madam president, i thank the cha my remarks be continued in the record as if read without the interr the presiding officer: without objection. without objection, it will appear in the rec uninterrupted.

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Speech By: Christopher S. Bond

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Christopher S. Bond: mr. bond: success on the war on terror cannot simply be defined as getting a guilty verdict against k.s.m. in a civilian federal court. if the department of justice jeopardizes our methods, inoccurs unnecessary security risks and creates a high-profile public platform for k.s.m. to

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Christopher S. Bond: spew h hatred, they will only increase the likelihood that these detainees will pros lel ties fellow inmates in federal prisons and convert followers worldwide. that is not success that. is failure of the worst kind. an avoidable failure. now, these resident hypothetical hypothetical -- are not hypothetical guam tbhealz some have -- gambles that some on the left

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Christopher S. Bond: have dismissed casual. one judge as stated that we kno the domestic terror trials have exposed sensitive classified information and given importa intelligence information to al qaeda, allowing them to go undetected in more ways than they need. a few examples.

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Christopher S. Bond: the east africa embassy bombing trials made osama bin laden aware that cell phones were being intercepted, prompting al qaeda to alter its methods of communication. the trial of the first world trade center yousef topped off -- tipped off terrorists to a communications

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Christopher S. Bond: link that provided enormously valuable intelligence but was shut down after disclosure. third, within days of being provided to the defense in the omar abdel-rahman, or the blind sheikh trial, a list of unindicted coconspirator including osama bin laden, was provided to bin laden. four, during the trial of

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Christopher S. Bond: zacarias moussaoui, 48 classified documents, reports of f.b.i. interviews with witnesses witnesses, were inadvertently provided to moussaoui as part of the government's pretrial discovery response. in ordering the u.s. marshals to seize the documents from moussaoui's cell, the judge noted that significant national security interests of the united states could be compromised if

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Christopher S. Bond: the defendant were to retain copies of these classified information. closed quotes. i believe these examples ample evidence that the public trials of these types of terrorism cases are a clear win for trorists seeking to learn more about our intelligence sources and methods. were there no alternative, we would provide -- we would

7:03:11 to 7:03:31( Edit History Discussion )

Christopher S. Bond: proceed with this type of trial despite the risks because our nation values due process. however, the military commissions process first approved by congress in 2006 and again just last month ensures a fair trial with rights to counsel, discovery and appeal but without the federal civilian trials. the concept of military

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Christopher S. Bond: commissions is one our nation has relied upon before. when congress created the military commissions process after september 11, it established a framework to ensure methods would not be jeopardized jeopardized. ile changes have been made over the years to the process itself in light of supreme court decisions, the general framework

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Christopher S. Bond: and principles remain solidly in place. this process isn't new to this administration either. the administration is not only using this general announced the u.s. cole bomber will still be tried in the with congress to make the changes to it themselves. yet in the case of 9/11 conspirators, the administration has chosen to

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Christopher S. Bond: reject the true and tried method of prosecuting enemy combatants in a venue where intelligence sources and methods are unlikely to be compromised in favor of circuses that will make the trial of zacarias moussaoui, with its endless motions and moussaoui challenges of a duel to former attorney general

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Christopher S. Bond: ashcroft seem like a mundane proceeding. this is an unnecessarily dangerous gamble. while the decision to take this gamble with our national security is clearly a matter for the executive branch, the administration has found a willing ally in many of my colleagues here in congress. earlier this month, i joined 44 other senators from both sides of the aisle in supporting an

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Christopher S. Bond: amendment to prohibit taxpayer funds from being used to prosecute the 9/11 perpetrators. unfortunately, we were outvoted. the amendment did not pass. i encourage my colleagues to rethink their opposition. when the appropriate time comes, i hope they reaffirm that our national

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Christopher S. Bond: have priority over politically correct prosecutions. america is rightfully a different nation today than it was before september 11. we were attacked in a way and a magnitude that we hope never to experience again. but we simply cannot rely on hope alone. following these terrorist

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Christopher S. Bond: attacks, we look -- we took critical steps to try to ensure we are never attacked like this again. we made sure that we gave our intelligence professionals the tools they needed to fight terrorists, not just criminals. we gave them the tools they need to fight a war and keep america safe. we must rember the lessons of september 11. we owe it to the victims of

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Christopher S. Bond: these and other terrorist attacks to keep our nation safe. i call on the floor -- i call on the president from this floor to reverse thi disastrou decision by the attorney general and reaffirm his commitment to our national security and to winning