Censure of Bush May Be Appropriate, U.S. Senator Leahy Says [View All]

March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he is ``inclined to believe'' it's appropriate to censure President George W. Bush over his eavesdropping authorization.

Leahy made his comments at a hearing today in Washington to consider a resolution by Senator Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, chastising the president for ordering government monitoring without warrants of calls and e-mails between people in the U.S. and terrorism suspects overseas.

Leahy, who is from Vermont, urged Congress to subpoena legal opinions from the Bush administration about the program to determine whether the president got ``bad advice'' or ``knowingly chose to flout the law.''

The three-hour hearing was the fourth by the committee this month to look into the eavesdropping program and the first to examine Feingold's proposal. Feingold, who is considering running for president in 2008, said he won't abandon his efforts and that Leahy's support shows his resolution is being taken seriously.
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