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With All Do Respect, Senator, I Don't Think This Is An Appropriate Setting For Me To Discuss That Issue. I'd Be More Than Glad To Come Back In An Appropriate Setting To Discuss The Issues That You Have Raised.

I Am The Attorney General Of The United States. But I Am Also A Black Man.

When You Compare What People Endured In The South In The 60s To Try To Get The Right To Vote For African Americans, And To Compare What People Were Subjected To There To What Happened In Philadelphia - Which Was Inappropriate, Certainly That . . . To Describe It In Those Terms I Think Does A Great Disservice To People Who Put Their Lives On The Line, Who Risked All, For My People.

Whether It Is An Attempt To Bomb The New York City Subway System, An Attempt To Bring Down An Airplane Over Detroit, An Attempt To Set Off A Bomb In Times Square ... I Think That Gives Us A Sense Of The Breadth Of The Challenges That We Face, And The Kinds Of Things That Our Enemy Is Trying To Do.

To Those In The Executive Branch Who Say ‘just Trust Us’ When It Comes To Secret And Warrantless Surveillance Of Domestic Communications, I Say, ‘remember Your History.’