Patrick Leahy actually said...

I think history will show, and this was before your time as Secretary, that our ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq were naive and enormously wasteful.

Leahy critiques U.S. military ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq as misguided and costly.

02/27/2012

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I see his complicity in offering flimsy legal advice to justify the White House actions.

I want to make sure that no future administration--I do not care whether it is of my party or the other party--makes such mistakes.

I hope we do not have to wait that long this time, and I would hope that what you find you will report to this Committee, report to me and t...

That is not the way this should operate. It should not operate that way in any administration.