Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
Richard Craig Shelbyis the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated in 1961. After law school, he went on to serve as city prosecutor. During this period he worked as a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,
We've got a meeting next week with the attorney general, and we're going to carry it all the way to the White House if we have to, because this inquiry has to be done,
We believe we have crafted a bill that reflects the priorities of the committee as well as those of the entire Senate,
shows that the FBI and the other agencies of the intelligence community must remain vigilant.
Mister Secretary, you should be here today, of all people,
Let's hope the area will be calm. But we're all concerned,
Let's follow the money, ... If we follow the money, we're going to get to the truth, and I think the truth will not be very nice.
There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.
Mr. Pollard committed very serious crimes against the United States, and it is appropriate that he be punished for them,
Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk,
We need to know what happened, how it happened and what we can do about it. And then, after that, I think we have to look forward, ... I think it's going to take a restructuring, legislatively, of our entire intelligence ... communities.
We had no specific warning of the United States being attacked, although people have alluded to that before,
The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.
We've got to finish the job. Otherwise, the damage that they did two years ago