Patrick Leahy actually said...

the executive branch claims about the effectiveness of Section 215 phone records are overblown, even misleading

the question is not whether granting the government authority makes us incrementally safer, but whether the additional safety is worth the s...

Senator Durbin and I have been fighting to impose additional safeguards on this controversial authority for years.

We have to look at what are adequate safeguards, especially when we are dealing with an agency that did not have adequate enough safeguards.