Patrick Leahy actually said...

I worry because sometimes with good intentions you have people who do not seem to use much sense.

It is hard to understand why it took the President nearly three and a half years of a four-year term to send up the nominees.

But we also have to have meaningful checks and balances. We are going to safeguard our fundamental values as we try to secure the Nation.

I want our country to be protected, but I want our privacy to be protected, and I do not think those two concepts are contradictory.