Coleen Rowley Testifies Before The Senate - 6/6/2002 - Part II — Transcript

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1. 0:00measure of raising
2. 0:02have been raised in intelligence and we
3. 0:05can provide you on a classified basis
4. 0:08the some of the material you're talking
5. 0:09about I'd be happy to arrange that I
6. 0:11fully understand that but I tend to be
7. 0:13like Senator Specter sometimes I think
8. 0:16there are too many people in this system
9. 0:18putting too many burdens that go beyond
10. 0:21what the law requires and therefore
11. 0:23makes it um difficult for Public Safety
12. 0:26to be protected thank you thank you I
13. 0:29want to thank
14. 0:31all Senators both Republicans and
15. 0:33Democrats who
16. 0:35have this hearing from the time we
17. 0:37started this morning has been about an
18. 0:38eight hour
19. 0:39hearing Miss Raleigh probably thinks
20. 0:42it's even longer because she was
21. 0:43watching the early hearing before
22. 0:46uh
23. 0:48Asian Riley I have a feeling that it'd
24. 0:52much rather be
25. 0:53in your office doing the things that you
26. 0:55from everything we've been told do very
27. 0:57very well
28. 0:59but I appreciate you being here I
29. 1:01appreciate director Mueller
30. 1:03and Inspector General fine the amount of
31. 1:07time they took
32. 1:08that we have people like Miss
33. 1:10Collingwood who's sat through all this
34. 1:12patiently
35. 1:13uh
36. 1:15these hearings as both her to hatch and
37. 1:18I made very clear not gacha earrings
38. 1:21these are hearings we want to help
39. 1:24us have a terrorist attack
40. 1:26as I said earlier terrorists don't ask
41. 1:29whether you're Republicans are Democrats
42. 1:31or where you're from or anything else
43. 1:33they just strike in Americans
44. 1:35and all of us have a duty to protect
45. 1:37Americans
46. 1:38we also have a duty to protect those
47. 1:40things that have saved our own liberty
48. 1:42as I said earlier
49. 1:43Attorneys General come and go Senators
50. 1:46come and go directors come and go we all
51. 1:48do
52. 1:48Constitution stays constant and we can
53. 1:51protect ourselves within that framework
54. 1:53you're sworn to do that and you've
55. 1:56worked a long career poding that that
56. 1:59oath that I admire you for it
57. 2:01so I thank all my colleagues this is one
58. 2:04of many hearings we've had
59. 2:07and we will stand gratefully in recess
60. 2:20um
61. 2:30all right
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