Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
Charles Patrick "Pat" Robertsis the senior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he has served since 1997. He previously served as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 April 1936
CountryUnited States of America
daily executive ought regards subject talked talking
This is not a subject that we ought to be talking about daily in regards to a confirmation hearing. If anything, it ought to be talked about in executive session. But it's not, it's out, and so there you have it.
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I think ultimately you have to go right up the chain to the secretary of defense or to the civilian leadership of the military,
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not needed, not necessary and, in my personal opinion, was a stunt.
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I think we ought to raze that prison,
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Kansas producers got an early present this holiday with the long overdue decision by Japan.
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not really relevant to what we are trying to do to detain and interrogate the worst of the worst so that we can save American lives.
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I issued an open invitation to anybody who believes their analytical product was skewed in any way, or if they were intimidated or if they were coerced, that they can come to us, ... Face the Nation.
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He indicates his analysis could have played a critical role
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You don't want to have a situation where you have capability that doesn't work well with the FISA court, in terms of speed and agility and hot pursuit. So we have to solve that problem.
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We have several working drafts that we will give to members as of this week,
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
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Why is it that on our number one security threat, we balk?
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unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence.