[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   IN FIGHTING ANTITERRORISM WE MUST ALSO PROTECT OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES

  (Mr. McINTOSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McINTOSH. Mr. Speaker, let me rise and say I agree we need to 
take action in order to address antiterrorism in this country. We have 
all been horrified by the bombing at the Olympics and among our civil 
aeronautics. I want to urge the President to go ahead and spend that 
$80 million and build the antiterrorism center at the FBI so that 
Americans can be safer in our travel.
  Second, we need to also protect civil liberties in this country, and 
I am troubled by President Clinton's request for secret wiretap 
authority. As my colleagues know when the President has 900 FBI files 
in the White House basement on his political opponents and still 
refuses to release the list of 200,000 Americans that he keeps track of 
in his big brother database, I am not sure that we can trust him with 
more authority to wiretap Americans who may be innocent of any crime.
  We need to work to fight terrorism, but we also need to protect civil 
liberties in this country and make sure that we are not giving our 
Government authority to harass innocent Americans.

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