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Leon Panetta: “It is a crazy, nutty tool that, frankly, cannot be restructured.”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
It is a crazy, nutty tool that, frankly, cannot be restructured.
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Leon Panetta
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Panetta criticizes the sequestration process as ineffective.

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