This Administration does not understand the limitations of civil law, military law, and the limits of the Geneva Conventions in dealing with extra-national terrorists. Guantanamo Bay is a necessary facility rightly established to address this issue. That said, inmates of Guantanamo should receive timely trials intended to determine whether they are implacable, dangerous enemies of our country, rather than live in indefinite incarceration. We must immediately stop the Administration’s politically motivated prosecution of our intelligence operatives, which is crippling our ability to collect the single most effective preventive mechanism against future terrorist attacks.

As your Congressman, I will:

• Support substantial global expansion of human intelligence-gathering capability, as this is the best single means of derailing terrorist attacks both within and outside the U.S., and of attacking the illicit weapons trade that threatens to arm terrorists with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
• Support legislation to ban prosecution of intelligence personnel who were conducting, and will have to conduct, lawful interrogations under past and future administrations.
• Support covert action (1) to prevent rogue states and terrorist organizations from acquiring nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; (2) to prevent rogue states from committing acts of aggression or terrorism against the U.S. and its allies, and (3) to attack terrorist cells and training camps around the world.
• Tie our foreign aid to Third World nations to a proviso that authorizes us to strike terrorist cells, training facilities and finance groups in the recipient country. Nations not willing to permit this do not receive foreign aid, and all citizens of that country are added to the Terrorist Watch list.