Leahy acknowledges the presence of a witness.
07/12/2011
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I do not know how we justify continuing these expansive authorities, whether it is FISA or the search powers authorized by the PATRIOT Act, ...
We owe it to the memories of Officer Stephen Johns, the murdered guard at the museum, and Matthew Shepard and so many others.
I think we have to strengthen the hand of law enforcement to respond to these very vile threats and vile crimes.
Changing our interrogation policies to ban torture was an essential first step.