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Tom Cotton: “This is an issue not just for terrorist operations, but I would presume also for things like child molesters, child…”

On the recordJuly 7, 2015
This is an issue not just for terrorist operations, but I would presume also for things like child molesters, child pornographers, sex traffickers, kidnappers, is that correct?
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Senator Cotton emphasizes the broader implications of encryption on law enforcement.

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