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Jeff Miller: “I understand that it was not just papers that were taken, but there possibly were bound books or folders of some type…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2004
I understand that it was not just papers that were taken, but there possibly were bound books or folders of some type that you, in fact, could not just crunch up as a bunch of papers. You would know, in fact, that you were disposing of them; and you had to do it deliberately, if, in fact, you did dispose of it. So to say that it was sloppy and inadvertent kind of stretches the imagination. But, of course, a lot of this has been done in this House over recent months, unfortunately; and it is being done out on the campaign trail, so it is certainly to be expected.
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Jeff Miller
Florida

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Discussing the deliberate disposal of documents in a political context.

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