Pat Leahy

Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google ...

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Vietnam War-Era Bombs Cause Current Day Casualties, Demonstrating Need for Updated Weapons Technology

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

In Southeast Asia, UXOs left over from the Vietnam War injure and kill hundreds of people each year.

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Leahy Presses Obama To Name Key Reformer To Swaps Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is lobbying President Obama to appoint Sean Cota, a Vermont business owner and an advocate of the regulation ...

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Pat Leahy-John Paul Stevens Meeting In January Marked Turning Point In Supreme Court Process

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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This January Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) held a weighty conversation on the judicial landscape with Supreme Court Justice John Paul...

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Wall Street Reform Conference Committee Membership Announced

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Wall Street reform effort enters a new phase on Thursday, as the conference committee between the House and Senate will meet to begin hashing out the differences between the House and Senate versions which have already passed.

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Is Your Email Private?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is your email private? You may think it is, but you may also be surprised how easy it is for law enforcement to access it without a warrant.

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Pat Leahy Throws Cold Water On Obama's Hope For Miranda Fix (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-V.T.) on Sunday threw a bit of cold water on chatter that the administration would seek a legisla...

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Carl Levin: Filibuster Could Fall 'After Massive Conflict On The Floor'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the Na...

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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Jeff Sessions Irked By Crying Child: "Enough With The Histrionics" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, a bill that will "amend the Immigration and Nationality A...

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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Patrick Leahy Pens Op-Ed: Why We Need Truth Commission

The Boston Globe | Patrick Leahy | Posted 05.25.2011

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THE OBAMA administration's decision to release more Bush-era memoranda, which sought to rationalize torture, shows that President Obama is following t...

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Leahy Truth Commission Going Ahead Despite Lack Of Dem Support

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) will continue to push for a "truth commission" to investigate the Bush administration's detainee...

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Leahy: Commission Into Bush-Era Torture "Not Going To Happen"

Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, the website Consortium News published an article by Charlotte Dennett pouring some cold water on the hope many liberals have that Congress ...

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Truth or Reconciliation?

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Official investigations of the Bush administration are on the way. Politicians will appear heroic. The media will get a hot story they won't have to do a bit of digging for. And the rest of us?

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Leahy Lays Out Case For Truth Commission In Time

Time | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 30 years ago, a special Senate investigation peered into abuses that included spying on the American people by their own government. The fi...

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Truth and Healing

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

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By using the term "Truth Commission," Senator Leahy has defined the seriousness of the crimes of the past eight years and linked his proposal to an international movement to examine out-of-control governmental power.

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Georgian Lobbyist Has KGB Ties, AP Reveals

AP | DESMOND BUTLER and MATT SIEGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A foreign activist lobbying in Washington to draw American attention to a war over a Russian-backed breakaway region has had freque...

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Friday Talking Points [53] -- Why McCain Is Losing, And Why Democrats Shouldn't Say So

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...

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Ted Stevens Trial Witness List Features Kennedy, Powell And Leahy

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — As many as five senators and a former secretary of state may take the stand at the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens in coming w...

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Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly...

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Sen Leahy On Iraq: Maliki Realizes Obama Will Win [VIDEO]

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday afternoon, Vermont Senator Pat Leahy spoke with the Huffington Post on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention. Addressing the b...

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Why is No One Calling the Anthrax Suspect a Terrorist?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you don't believe that they're not calling him a terrorist because he's white, let me ask you this question -- what if his name was Sheik al-Abdullah Muhammad?

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Sen. Leahy Has Cameo In New Batman Movie

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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The late Heath Ledger, who by all accounts gives a phenomenal performance as the Joker in the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight" which opens today, d...

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Why Clinton Must Stay In The Race

John K. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The worst thing for Obama right now would be to win by default. A win by forfeit only weakens the winner in the realm of politics. By contrast, Obama's victory over Clinton would establish momentum showing his ability to defeat a powerful political machine.

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