Durbin: We need to think long and hard about members of the judiciary committee endangering the lives of innocent people to pursue this line of questioning.
[panic]
Durbin: We need to think long and hard about members of the judiciary committee endangering the lives of innocent people to pursue this line of questioning.
[panic]
Durbin: The information contained in these reports is dangerous. Dangerous to the victims, and to the innocent to the people mentioned in these reports. And it's unnecessary at this point….dangerous territory.
Jackson not thrilled to have her recollection refreshed by Cotton. kek
Cotton: Do you think most detainees at Guantanamo Bay are mostly terrorists, or innocent goat farmers?
Jackson: It's impossible for me to answer that question…they are classified as enemy combatants.
Cotton: Coincidentally, both you and he [the terrorist she previously represented], went to Morrison Foerster [law firm].
Sounds like the law firm Morrison & Foerster represented terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay pro bono.
Booker is so over-the-top animated; 'almost comical if it was not so dangerous', describes him perfectly. [his words]
Jackson's reactions to Booker's words are as if she knows she was not even qualified to get in Harvard. Jackson knows she is a fraud.
Booker: Today, you are my star. You are my harbinger of hope.
Kennedy: We have in Washington, a 'managerial elite'…the entrenched politicians…members of the media, members of the administrative state, academics are part of it, there are a lot of corporate phonies that are part of it. And many people in this cabal think they are smarter and more virtuous than the American people.
Jackson won't say if crack is more dangerous than powder cocaine:
"they are chemically similar."
Have to wonder if Padilla's parents came here legally, or illegally.
Padilla: No person is an alien.