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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
Do all of you understand it would be your duty, if asked in hearings or within DOD, that your duty would be to give your best military judgment as to how to best defend America, even if it's not in accord with us politicians?
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions insists on the obligation of military leaders to provide honest assessments.

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