[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18480]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       RULE OF LAW AND PRISONERS

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. We are having a very important debate in this country 
on how we deal with terrorist prisoners or so-called terrorist 
prisoners and the way that we try them and the way that we present 
evidence.
  Many of you will remember that in the Oklahoma City bombing when 
Timothy McVeigh was captured no one in the United States of America 
said, We are not going to give him all the rights under our 
Constitution, we are not going to show him the evidence that we have 
against him; we are going to deny him all his full rights to a jury 
trial.
  If you think about it, no matter how heinous the crime is, when it 
occurs here, Americans say we have the rule of law, that is who we are. 
And no matter how horrible and horrifying it is, each individual has a 
process.
  It seems to me that when we deal with this war on terrorism that we 
are talking about so much, that we owe it to ourselves as a country 
that established the rule of law that we make sure that those who are 
accused get the charges against them and the right to defend 
themselves.

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