mr. chairman , i thank the gentleman for yielding me this time and for his great work on this , and i want to thank my friends on the democrat side of the aisle for the work they have given for the patriot act . 
thanks for at least bringing this debate up . 
mr. chairman , as a former fbi agent , i had occasion to work some pretty bad folks in the city of chicago in working organized crime and public corruption . 
i developed the sources for wiretaps and applied wiretaps for things like murder and extortion , gambling , prostitution , racketeering , child pornography . 
there was a case of a child pornographer who was producing child pornography tapes where we used the legal system , a legal instrument , through due process of law , to get records that we needed from businesses , from his home , from other places to make sure that we could find the entire network of distribution of criminals who were preying on our children . 
america said something interesting . 
the people of america said , you know , agent rogers , at the time we trust you , but we trust our constitution more , so you have to follow the law . 
you have to follow the constitution even to go after these child molesters and people who are promoting child pornography , people who are involved in murder and racketeering . 
and we did , and we used the law as we knew it to put somebody in jail . 
we said if a child molester goes into the library and sits down next to your child , there is going to be no safe haven in america . 
we are going to use due process according to the constitution and make sure our children , our libraries , our personnel are safe . 
we used that before the patriot act got here . 
i worked a bombing case where they were trying to sell bombs to individuals who were blowing up other gangsters ; gangsters blowing up gangsters and gangsters blowing up strip clubs and other things to gain influence over them . 
we used all the processes , including a delayed search warrant , because we needed to know who they were getting their materials from . 
we used due process under the constitution and we brought them to justice . 
and america is grateful for that , and it made an impact . 
and we never , ever , ever once deviated from the constitution . 
this whole debate is almost ridiculous , mr. chairman . 
all we do in the patriot act is say , look , if we can go after child molesters sitting in the library and bombers who we need to sneak and peak on a warrant , we ought to be able to go after terrorists . 
that is all the patriot act did . 
there is no subversion of the constitution , no suspension of the constitution . 
mr. chairman , it is maddening to me that somebody in america and in england and around the world is getting up in the morning thinking , i am going to kill somebody in an act of terror , and that we somehow fiddle while rome is burning and argue should it be 10 years or 5 years on a renewal or a sunset . 
this is ridiculous . 
we have people who are committed to killing americans today . 
we are at war . 
this bill helps protect america and does not suspend the constitution of the united states . 
for those who argue there are some emergency powers in here , you are wrong . 
you should get up and argue against the criminal code every day on this floor , and you should put in bills to remove our ability as agents of the fbi to do that . 
you do not because it is legal and it is proper under our constitution . 
mr. chairman , we must support this act . 
we must do it today for the future safety of the united states of america . 
