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Leon Panetta: “We are working with the State Department and that's why we came up with this almost 1,000 more marines.”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2013
We are working with the State Department and that's why we came up with this almost 1,000 more marines.
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Leon Panetta
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Panetta discusses the deployment of additional Marines for embassy security.

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