But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.
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That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,
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And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.
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We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
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What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general.
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And I don’t think Director Comey ever adequately explained why he treated the Clinton investigation one way and the Trump investigation another.
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We cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
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No other nation can do that the way we can, and it’s going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.
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I would strongly urge the Donald Trump administration to pick someone who is completely apolitical, who doesn’t come out of the political process
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If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
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In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.
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The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.
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I think Hillary Clinton is right. I think it isn’t enough to leave [Bashir] Assad in place, because as long as he is there, there is going to be a recruiting magnet for ISIS.
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Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.
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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
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When the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
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I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don’t think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
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We can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.
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And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they’re coming to visit or stay with.
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I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he’s been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops.
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now
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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
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There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people.
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Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.
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The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
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We are trying to do as much of this as we can in the public eye transparently.
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A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas.
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