We believe very strongly in this case. ... I'll have to sit down with our team of litigators and hear from them as to what is the appropriate next step,

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is going to draw the balance between the protection of civil liberties and protecting the national security, and in some cases, we guessed wrong.

Some in this country mistakenly believed it could not happen here, ... Today we have chilling evidence that it is possible.

Had these four defendants succeeded in their alleged plots, their attacks would have taken an untold number of Americans.

As the court noted today, the authority to detain enemy combatants like Jose Padilla plays an important role in protecting American citizens from the very kind of savage attack that took place almost four years ago to the day,