Patrick Leahy actually said...

"I have no objection to presidents appointing close friends, but will he keep the kind of independence that a attorney general has to keep from the president?"

"It's been long enough."

"I don't believe that. You can't erase e-mails. Not today."

"This is something the American people have a stake -- a stake in. Let them hear, and let them hear it in public and in open."