Patrick Leahy actually said...

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

the Section 215 program contributed to only a few of those cases and was not essential to preventing any terrorist attacks.

When you talk about 9/11, one of the biggest problems there is that we had the information, it would have prevented 9/11.

I have concluded that this phone records program is not uniquely valuable enough to justify the massive intrusion on Americans' privacy.