Leahy: After decades of abuses by wiretapping MLK by government officials, and then WH enemies on the Nixon list, the law was passed.
Leahy: Legal scholars and many Republicans have been almost unanimous. That this is AGAINST THE LAW.
The use of military force did not give the president the authority to go around and wiretap Americans illegally.
That authorization said to capture or kill AQ and get OBL.
Let me be clear. SOme Republican senators say we're talkinga bout special rights for terrorists. I have no interest in that.
I go to work every day in a building targeted for destruction by AQ. I wish the Bush admin. had done a better job and when they nearly had OBL, they caught him instead of taking special forces out of Afghanistan and sending them to Iraq.
NOtice that even though he mentioned the taps on MLK....the only President he mentioned....was NIXON ..not Kennedy.