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Joe Biden: “While my friend from Maryland is here, I want to point out, first of all, the request is very limited. We are looking…”

On the recordMay 25, 2005
While my friend from Maryland is here, I want to point out, first of all, the request is very limited. We are looking for the names in 10 reports. It is totally circumscribed, the request as relates to this issue which you so painstakingly went through, explaining what it was that worried everybody--and worries everybody--about Mr. Bolton and the use of intelligence information, even after he has been proscribed, prevented, from being able to speak without clearance, which is--you and I have been here a long time-- fairly remarkable. That may have happened to other people in the State Department. I can't recall it happening.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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