Live Blogging Lieberman's Hearing on Homeland Security Since 9 ...
The Senate Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), is holding a hearing on successes and challenges the Department of Homeland Security has faced and now faces. The hearing is one of a number of hearings being held on Capitol Hill in the coming days to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
It is probably appropriate that Lieberman is chairing the hearing, as he made the case to President George W. Bush that the country needed a Homeland Security Department in 2002. But, Lieberman has no problem with accelerating the assault on civil liberties and employing perversions of justice and the rule of law in the name of security. Lieberman is of the mind that terrorists are not to be treated as criminals because that would prevent the military and intelligence community from obtaining crucial information. This is why he opposes giving Miranda rights to “foreign terrorists.” Lieberman also does not consider waterboarding to be “torture.” He says it is all “psychological” and “not like putting burning coals on people’s bodies.”
With that made clear, I will be live blogging the hearing . Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute, Comptroller General Eugene L. Dodaro and Homeland Security and Justice Issues Cathleen A. Berrick will all be witnesses at the hearing. [When documents containing their prepared statements are posted, I will post a link.]
To watch the hearing, go here.
11:39 AM Lieberman’s closing remark: Committee has “possessive or parental interest” in DHS. No accident that another attack has not succeeded.
A different kind of country after 9/11 would have become much more like a police state. And, I suppose there are people who feel that at different times somebody’s civil liberties were compromised. I think overall really our record is remarkable. I say that also to say that in a country as big, open and free as we are. And, we want to remain always as open and free as we are. We are never going to achieve 100% security.
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