Patrick Leahy actually said...

I do not know how we justify continuing these expansive authorities, whether it is FISA or the search powers authorized by the PATRIOT Act, when they are being--even the expanded authorities are being abused this way.

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Questioning the justification for expansive surveillance authorities amid reported abuses.

06/16/2009

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