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Chris Dodd: If this bill is adopted with retroactive immunity, then this issue disappears; it goes away forever. There will be no…

On the recordDecember 17, 2007
If this bill is adopted with retroactive immunity, then this issue disappears; it goes away forever. There will be no court proceedings, nothing. We will never have the opportunity to know until, perhaps, some of these documents might be released decades down the road under the Freedom of Information Act. But I am struck by the Senator's passion in arguing that if people read these documents and saw them, they would have a very difficult time supporting the provision in this bill that grants retroactive immunity.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing the implications of retroactive immunity in a bill during Senate debate.

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