Neal Sonnett Quotations

We'll be announcing that we have a plea agreement.

He will continue to work hard to fully cooperate with the Department of Justice and law enforcement agencies and to make restitution to all victims. This is the course he set out many months ago and the course he intends to follow and complete no matter how long it takes.

It certainly is in everybody's interest to keep these issues confidential.

I think that's just government stonewalling. It's more of the same decision not to allow any details of NSA domestic surveillance to get out.

Suffice it to say, we vigorously disagree with the allegations and will be ready when they get to court.

We are not trying to limit the President's ability to go after terrorists.

We should stand shoulder to shoulder with the president in our desire to fight terrorism in this country and around the world, but we cannot allow the Constitution and our rights to become victim to our fight against terrorism.

The government will dismiss the remaining counts of the Miami indictment at the time of sentencing and will also recommend that the sentence imposed in the Miami case run concurrently to any sentence imposed as a result of charges filed today in the District of Columbia.

We do not say surveillance should be stopped, only that it comply with the law.

You would expect a translator to take his lead from the defense lawyer and you would not expect that translator to understand the intricacies of a very broad criminal statute. There is a real issue whether it's even fair to charge, much less convict, someone like him.

It was a very pro forma hearing, just the formal entry of his not guilty plea,

It's not our intention to bring any details of cooperation. All we're asking for is a sentence at the bottom of the guidelines.

If he pleads guilty, then there's a feather in the cap of the prosecution quickly,