Last week, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I – Conn) introduced the “Terrorist Expatriation Act” – legislation that would allow the State Department to revoke the citizenship of Americans who provide support to a foreign terrorist organization. Yesterday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discussed last week’s attempted terrorist attack in Times Square and Lieberman’s suggested legislation on “This Week.”
Holder on the Lieberman bill:
“There are potential constitutional issues with it, as I’ve seen some critics discuss. I’ve not had a chance, as I said, to review it in any great detail, but I think what people have to understand is that the system we presently have in place takes terrorists and can put them in jail for extended periods of time. We can put people in jail for the rest of their lives. We can even execute people under the law as it presently exists, and one has to wonder whether we need to go further than that.”
Find the complete transcript of the interview here.
