Patrick Leahy actually said...

It plays a crucial role in closing the gaps and seams that we fought hard to gain after the 9/11 attacks.

These are things that can be done to increase transparency, but not to stop the program.

If this program is not effective, it has to end. And so far I am not convinced by what I have seen.

No reform should be based on the misguided legal theory that foreign terrorists on foreign soil are entitled to the same constitutional righ...