Even before Adm. Mike McConnell delivered his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) laid into the director of national intelligence. Leahy pointed to a line in McConnell’s prepared statement suggesting that “some” do not appreciate the threat posed by al-Qaeda, and, visibly angry, warned him against accusing “any Senator on this panel” of playing fast and loose with national security.
And he called on McConnell to end his “irresponsible” repeated comments that debating changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will mean that “some Americans are going to die.”
