Some few years ago, the government had tapped into and was listening in on the cell phone conversations of the various Muslim groups that were wishing ill upon America. This was a good and reliable source, and we had quite a bit of actionable intelligence available. Then Senator Pat Leahy got up, in the well of the Senate, and blurted out, that we were listening in on these conversations, which dried up this rich vein of data. Overnight, the jihadists, realizing the error of their ways, went to using throwaway phones and coding their verbal messages much more carefully.
Small wonder, then, that when Dick Cheney and Senator Leahy met in a casual encounter, the senator, with the mistaken idea that cordiality was in order, was greatly shocked when the Vice President told the senator to perform a biologically impossible act of perversion upon himself.
Senator Leahy is a blabbermouth, but because he pronounced his revelations from the floor of the Senate, he is immune to the consequences. There is a section in the Constitution which permits this. (Article I, Section 6).
Edward Snowden has no such protection from the consequences of his actions.
Good for Cheney. Leahy is a total, complete, pure unadulterated POS.