dr. shakil afridi has been tortured for a year by the pakistani government. the foreign relations committee has done nothing to address that and so we have dr. shakil afridi now in prison for a year. for years for the rest of his life essentially. and i don't see any action coming or forthcoming from the foreign affairs committee. so what i would say to my colleagues is that this is a bill that places restrictions on foreign aid it does not end foreign aid it doesn't breach the israel-egypt treaty the camp david accord. it's a canard. it's brought up routinely to try to prevent any changes or reform in foreign aid. we always hear it's going to end aid to israel. it's a canard. so what i would say to my colleagues is that this bill does not end foreign aid. it places restrictions on the foreign aid. ask the american people do you think that these restrictions are appropriate? do you think that a host country should protect our embassies? do you think a host country like libya should be asked to continue to cooperate? do you think a host country like pakistan sh

dr. shakil afridi said the deposed who interrogated him said he helped pakistan that a worst enemy, worse even than the indians. pretty extraordinary remarks if they stand up to scrutiny. >> yes, although that is how a lot of people imagine the pakistani intelligence agencies do you the world. a lot of pakistanis, indeed, the things that way as well. a great deal of anti-americanism here at the moment. but this is all focussed on dr. shakil afridi, a man arrested about 20 days after the raid in which osama bin laden was killed because he had set up a fake vaccination program, and the idea was that he somehow obtained a blood samples and dna samples from the bin laden compound in order to verify whether the al-qaeda leader was there are not. we are not clear about whether he was ever able to do that. we do not think he was. but even then, he was sentenced to 33 years in prison, ostensibly on charges of funding a militant group. but i think widely more people recognize that it is because of his links and works with the cia. in this interview he says he is very proud that he worked with the

dr. afridi's released, maybe he'd be releas released.it boggles the mind to think that these senators are in favor of no restrictions and actually increasing aid despite decades of evidence that foreign aid isn't working for our country. proponents of this aid continue to argue that these mobs will be more inflamed if we don't give them money. i think it's quite the opposite. i think the other thing about it they don't quite get is that i don't think the people rioting are rioting saying, "give us more aid." what they're rioting for is that they don't like what our aid did in the first place. they're rioting against autocratic, authoritarian governments that were propped up by our aid. so the people who argue that taking away the aid will inflame the arab world, well, for goodness sakes, turn on the television set, they're plenty inflamed. now, take away -- taking away their aid doesn't make it better immediately either, but you at least have some consolation that we're at least trying to do something about the deficit and that maybe we

dr. shakil afridi helped us to get bin laden. he's been tortured, kept in prison and now been given a life sentence. i've asked one simple thing: i would like to have 15 minutes, have a discussion and have a vote on whether or not we should continue to send money to pakistan. i've said we should send not one penny to pakistan until this doctor is released. we offered at one time a $50 million reward for helping getting bin laden. young men and women sacrificed their limbs to go to afghanistan. many sacrificed their lives to go to pakistan to get bin laden. and this man who helped get bin laden, we're now letting him rot in a prison. we're now letting this man spend the rest of his life in prison. and do you know what this administration did? about a month ago they gave pakistan $1 billion more. do you know how pakistan responded? the head of the security agency for pakistan said very snidely and with a great deal of arrogance, "come back and talk to us in ten years about dr. dr. afridi." they're going to keep him in prison for th

dr. shakil afridi. don't see one peep from the other side, i don't see one bit of concern for the man who helped get bin laden. our soldiers went to afghanist afghanistan, that young man lost a limb, a young man in my town also lost three limbs. they did it to get this horrible mass murderer, bin laden. this happened and this is why we went to war and we're going to do nothing to support the man who helped us get bin laden? we send good money after bad, billions of dollars have been squandered in pakistan. pakistan then tortures the man who helped america get bin laden. and we do nothing. i've asked for 15 minutes to vote on this issue. 15 minutes. no one's obstructing this for any sort of personal vendetta. i'm more than happy to work with the majority. i care deeply about the veterans. i care deeply about housing and helping the veterans who have fought for their country. but this is about whether or not we as a country and the american taxpayers will be asked to send good money after bad to allies th