Washington, May 07: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today indicated that the State Department would look into the possibilities of revoking Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad’s citizenship under existing laws.
“I understand the desire behind the recommendation from some members of Congress. Clearly, United States citizenship is a privilege. It is not a right,” Clinton said in response about the legislation proposing to revoke the citizenship of US nationals who were members of foreign terrorist organisations.
“People who enter into such citizenship through naturalisation swear to uphold their duties to our Constitution. And people who are serving foreign powers – or in this case, foreign terrorists – are clearly in violation, in my personal opinion, of that oath which they swore when they became citizens. So we’re going to take a hard look at this,” Clinton said.
-PTI