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Eric Holder: “These statutes do not require the degree of specificity that you are implying.”

On the recordJune 6, 2012
These statutes do not require the degree of specificity that you are implying.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Holder clarifies that eavesdropping statutes do not demand detailed disclosures.

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