Senator Rand Paul

Oh, didn't they tell you?

He's not a narco-terrorist.

And I'm being facetious by that.

So you don't support this pardon.

So here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

If they say he's not a narco terrorist, he's not a threat to America.

And maybe he was falsely accused.

And I say that facetiously because it gets to the point of if they label you a narco terrorist, they can kill you without trial.

But if they say you're not a narco-terrorist, you can be given a pardon even though you have been convicted, even though he's gloated over all the people he's loaded with drugs, including some who have probably and inevitably have died in our country.

But he's okay because the administration does not label him a narco-terrorist.

It gets to the whole problem of this.

So I have brought forward with Senator Kaine on a couple of occasions, and will do again, the idea that we have to debate whether this is war.

There is a lower standard for rules of engagement in war, but they say it's not war.

But then they say, well, it kind of is war because we've labeled them narco-terrorists, and they are designated to be foreign terrorists, so you can kill them without any proof because they're enemy combatants.

But if we try to have a vote in Congress as to whether it's war or not, we can't have that because this is our prerogative.

But then you get into the lunacy of, well, Orlando Hernandez is not a narco-terrorist, but these guys who we don't know their name and we've presented no proof,

They're narco-terrorists.

It's absolutely and utterly insane.

I'm encouraged that the Arms Services Committee is going to do an investigation.