[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4118]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        A TALE OF TWO YALE SPIES

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Yale University proudly boasts it has among its 
students a so-called former Taliban leader. The Taliban promotes 
treating women like property, intolerance for religious diversity, hate 
for freedom, and death to America.
  Has Yale let a Taliban spy into its midst? Has elitist Yale 
University lost its way? But Yale did have a spy graduate from its 
university over 200 years ago. He was a 21-year-old. His name was 
Nathan Hale. He was a schoolmaster, a volunteer in the Continental 
Army, and a spy for George Washington.
  While Hale was gathering intelligence on the British in 1776, he was 
betrayed by Tories in New York City, captured and hung by British 
General Howe without a trial.
  Though Hale is rarely mentioned in U.S. history books any more, his 
last words before being hung were: ``I only regret that I have but one 
life to lose for my country.''
  Yale University would do well to recruit and honor students like 
Hale, instead of Taliban radicals who are villains to freedom. And, Mr. 
Speaker, that is just the way it is.

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