Reaction of Senator Patrick Leahy to the President's Saturday Radio Address On the Usa Patriot Act

U.S. Newswire › December 17, 2005

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is the reaction of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt., ranking member, Senate Judiciary Committee, chief Senate sponsor of the original USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, and a former prosecutor) to the President's Saturday radio address on the PATRIOT Act and on efforts led by Leahy and others in the Senate to make improvements in the proposed rewrite of the PATRIOT Act, which is now pending before Congress:

"Many of us who want improvements in the PATRIOT Act worked hard to help write and enact the original law in 2001. We want to make sure these tools are used against terrorists and not abused to undermine the hard-won rights that are the heritage of every American. Why not go the extra mile for a PATRIOT Act the American people can fully support, knowing that it has sufficient safeguards for their liberty?

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Reaction of Senator Patrick Leahy to the President's Saturday Radio Address On the Usa Patriot Act

"Threats to our freedoms are as current and as disturbing as this morning's headlines. Chairman Specter...

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