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Joe Lieberman: “Still it was terrorism. It is not as if, if you were affected by an awful grotesque anti-Muslim video and your response…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2014
Still it was terrorism. It is not as if, if you were affected by an awful grotesque anti-Muslim video and your response to that is to attack the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and burn it down and kill the U.S. ambassador, that is not terrorism.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Lieberman emphasizes that the Benghazi attack qualifies as terrorism regardless of any provocation.

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