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Duncan Hunter on Civil Liberties and Domestic Security
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Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent.
USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act; Bill HR 3199 ; vote number 2005-627 on Dec 14, 2005
Voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to allow the President & Attorney General to authorize electronic surveillance without a court order to acquire foreign intelligence information, after certifying that the surveillance is directed at the acquisition of communications of foreign agents.
Update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978; Bill H.R.5825 ; vote number 2006-502 on Sep 28, 2006
Voted YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight. A resolution providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5020) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities. Voting YES indicates support of the current methods for intelligence-gathering used by the CIA and other agencies.
Intelligence Authorization Act; Bill HR 5020 resolution H RES 774 ; vote number 2006-108 on Apr 26, 2006
Q: Are you prepared to hold terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely if you feel that we can't convict them and they're too dangerous to set free? HUNTER: Well, absolutely. And let me tell you that the proof of that is the fact that we have conducted these combatant review tribunals. And we've actually sent back to the battlefield or sent back to Afghanistan some of the people that we thought were no longer a threat. Some of those people have shown up on the battlefield bearing arms against our soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines, back on the battlefield after we sent them back. If anything, we've been too liberal with the release of terrorists. [The prisoners at Guantanamo] get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugs. They have prayer five times a day. They've all gained weight. We've got to keep Guantanamo open.
2007 GOP debate at UNH, sponsored by Fox News Sep 5, 2007
Sponsored Military Commission Act of 2006.
Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600 (Oct. 17, 2006)
"The point is, the inmates in Guantanamo have never eaten better, have never been treated better, and they have never been more comfortable in their lives. The idea that somehow we are torturing people in Guantanamo is absolutely not true. Unless you consider having to eat chicken three times a week real torture."
Voted NO on the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2007 which includes a provision that confines the CIA to the interrogation tactics permitted by the Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations, which bans techniques such as waterboarding.