Honorable Patrick Leahy
United States Senator, Vermont, Democrat
Senator Leahy was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974. He served as State’s Attorney in Chittenden County, Vermont, from 1966 to 1974. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committee and also sits on the Agriculture Committee and the Appropriations Committee. The following testimony is from a February 6, 2006, hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on "Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s [National Security Agency’s] Surveillance Authority." The question for this hearing is the illegality of the government’s domestic spying on ordinary Americans without a warrant.The question facing us is not whether the government should have…
