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Sen. Pat Roberts: 'No Civil Liberties If You're Dead'

AP | May 18 2006

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., welcomed Gen. Michael Hayden - nominated to lead the CIA - to a round of bipartisan Senate grilling Thursday and complained that the debate over his nomination has been "focused almost entirely" on controversy over NSA surveillance and eavesdropping programs.

"I am a strong supporter of civil liberties. But you have no civil liberties if you are dead," Roberts said. "I have been to the NSA and seen how the Terrorist Surveillance Program works. I have never seen a program more tightly run and closely scrutinzed."

Roberts said surveillance programs have stopped terrorist attacks.

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