For 33 years, the retiring Vermont senator and a top aide have quietly but doggedly been working to bind the
many wounds of a war that touched the lives of nearly every Vietnamese family. This is what public service is.
The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. military from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses, but it does .
The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. military from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses, but it does not apply to U.S. intelligence agencies. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy said it should.