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Kendrick Meek: “I am just going to put it to you this way. Anyone that speaks the truth, some may say truth to power, those individuals…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2006
I am just going to put it to you this way. Anyone that speaks the truth, some may say truth to power, those individuals that are trained, that are educated, that have been in the Armed Services as the two-star general has been, and has anything to say about the Pentagon or the direction that we are going in will not and have not, since making that statement, anything to say before the Committee on Armed Services. Do we want to call them in to kind of learn from them individuals, not the Republican majority? The Republican majority are loyal to the rubber stamp, not to the truth.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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Addressing the lack of accountability and truth in military discussions.

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