republicans can no longer maintain secret holds that allow senators block nominations anonymously as republicans have and are still doing against dozens of obama nominees, including those for tsa chief and other top homeland security slots. as promised, let s turn to ezra klein, washington post policy writer and author. how are you? good evening. i d be happy if you could answer this for me. the senate cannot vote for pivotal national security nominees but they have, two senators do, have time to let the government take away your citizenship if you happen to be abroad? the senate tends to have a lot of time for senator theater and less time for actual security. they got 96 of these people, they re cooling their heels. it is just bogging down an insane senate procedures that gum everything up. they don t filibuster anyone, they just promise to do it at some point in the future. even though they wouldn t win the filibuster vote, it would take about a week.
lot of time and less time for actual security. they got 96 of these people, they re cooling their heels. it is just bogging down an insane senate procedures that gum everything up. they don t filibuster anyone, they just promise to do it at some point in the future. it would take about a week. as for this thing, it s cheap posturing. you get headlines. you get on the front pages of things. you get to stand up and seem like you re tough without solving any of the relevant problems that led to the dangers of this car bomber. the lieberman/brown bill specifically, is there any national security benefit in there? retroactively applying it to shahzad, there wouldn t be. there is no case that i can think of that i can imagine that i ve heard anybody else pose in which taking away somebody s citizenship before conviction is somehow going to prevent their attempt to attack america. i think this is important because you can go in the other