Sequestration is a crazy process that would do untold damage to our national defense.
Leon Panetta: “Sequestration is a crazy process that would do untold damage to our national defense.”
On the recordFebruary 14, 2012
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Panetta criticizes sequestration's potential harm to national defense.
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