Patrick Leahy actually said...

The longest serving member of this Committee, Senator Edward Kennedy, half a dozen or a dozen times was told he could not board a flight.

There can be no doubt that we must fully understand the mistakes of the past in order to learn from them.

I am pleased and gratified that President Obama and his advisers recognized the need to take these actions and actually took them quickly.

A commission of the kind we are proposing is needed in order to arrive at an in-depth, unbiased, and impartial understanding of what happene...