[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2463]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 QUIT HIDING BEHIND BLAMING GEORGE BUSH

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, my good friends on the other side of the 
aisle are hiding behind a cloak that I believe is unfair. They're 
blaming the President of the United States for protecting this country. 
They're blaming the President of the United States for something that 
he is doing to protect this country to make sure that we have the 
flexibility to make sure that we can listen to enemies who are trying 
to do us harm. The President, as well as intelligence officials, have 
fought for the last 3 years to make sure that we can hear those things 
that were intercepts on the battlefield and turn them around to protect 
our troops.
  Make no mistake about it, my good friends the Democrats today are 
here on the floor of the House of Representatives saying that they 
don't want to be a rubber stamp for protecting this country. I want to 
be a person that says that every single person should understand that 
today the lawful use of the ability to be effective and efficient in 
protecting not only our troops but this country has been taken away. 
Yes, we can still listen, but it's got to go through another process, 
back through FISA, that takes a month's worth of work through a bunch 
of judges that help protect this country. We need to get this done. 
Quit hiding behind some bit of blaming George Bush.

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