How Patriotic Is The Patriot Act?
Another article I found when googling Patrick Leahy.

After the increasing revelations, especially in Europe, of CIA flights rendering terrorism suspects to be tortured in foreign prisons, 57 nations, on February 6, signed in Paris a treaty prohibiting governments from holding terrorism suspects or other prisoners in secret detention and also forbidding kidnapping and other ways of making persons disappear. Invited to also sign the treaty, the United States -- despite its being a government of laws, not men -- refused.
It would have been acutely embarrassing for the Bush administration to sign any assurances that we do not kidnap or otherwise "disappear" terrorism suspects. At this very moment, German prosecutors are pursing arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents charged with kidnapping a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, and sending him to Afghanistan where he was sexually abused and beaten for five months.
And Italian prosecutors have arrest warrants out for 25 CIA operatives charged with snatching Osama Moustafa Nasr off a street in Milan and sending him, shackled, to Egypt where he was subject to electric-shock interrogation and also sexually abused. Already, the chief of Italy's military intelligence service, Nicolo Politari, has considered it necessary to resign for his alleged complicity with the CIA kidnappers.

(1.25.07) Patrick Leahy. The force is strong with this one. Why wouldn't Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez just answer the question, i.e. why did the US government detain Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, and secretly send him to Syria where he was repeatedly tortured?  ¶ 6:02 PM