[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5900-S5901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION

  Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I wish to follow up on some comments that my 
colleague from Colorado made. First, however, I should like to address 
a subject briefly which has relevance to one of the bills we will be 
taking up, if not today, then later this week, and that is the 
intelligence authorization bill.
  This is a bill which should not have a great deal of controversy 
surrounding it. It provides for the funding of the intelligence 
agencies of the United States and the substantive policy that governs 
our intelligence activities, but it is especially relevant and 
propitious, I think, that we take up that bill this week following the 
news accounts of the arrest and incarceration of a man whose name is 
Kanzi, ostensibly from Pakistan, who is the alleged perpetrator of a 
violent crime against employees of the CIA a few years ago here in the 
Washington, DC, area.
  The reason I bring this up now is to make two points. One, we 
frequently hear the stories when things go wrong in law enforcement and 
in particular in operations involving our intelligence agencies. We try 
to learn from those lessons, but there have been bitter experiences 
with which we have had to deal. What we do not hear so much about are 
the many, many successes that go unreported, frequently because they 
involve law enforcement or intelligence activities that simply cannot

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be disclosed publicly. They involve classified material, sources, and 
methods of collection of information which we simply cannot discuss or 
we would be compromising those sources and methods.
  So these stories are not told, and it is too bad because I think the 
American people, in order to support our law enforcement and 
intelligence agencies, need to appreciate the work that they do and the 
danger that they frequently face and the many times in which by their 
actions American lives are saved and yet we do not even know about it.
  In this case, the details will have to come out later. We have been 
briefed, and certainly there is a very fine story to be told here. But 
the details will have to come out later. What we can say at this point 
is that this will be found to be yet another example of where American 
law enforcement officials played a key role in bringing to justice a 
terrorist, a person who at least allegedly has committed a heinous 
crime and hopefully, as a result of that information coming out, we 
will be supportive of agencies such as the FBI, such as the CIA, the 
DIA, and the other agencies, some of which we will be discussing in the 
intelligence authorization bill a little bit later.
  The second point is that we will find, track down, take into our 
jurisdiction, and prosecute terrorists. They can run, but they cannot 
hide. And they should note that we do not rest until we bring these 
people to justice. If you look at the number of terrorist incidents 
over the last several years, in many, many cases we have found and we 
have gained jurisdiction over and in some cases already prosecuted the 
people who have perpetrated heinous crimes against society in general 
and frequently against Americans. We will continue to be successful in 
doing that and in protecting American people if we are able to 
adequately fund and provide proper policies to guide our law 
enforcement agencies.
  So when we take that bill up later, I hope that my colleagues will be 
supportive and the American people will appreciate the continued 
necessity of providing that kind of support. In the end it is what will 
preserve our democracy as well as peace around the world.

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