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Dick Durbin: “It is a comparison in the form of interrogation that a repressive regime goes too far, that a democracy never reaches…”

On the recordJune 16, 2005
It is a comparison in the form of interrogation that a repressive regime goes too far, that a democracy never reaches that extreme. But to say that I am in any way diminishing the other horrors brought on by these regimes is plain wrong. Those are different elements completely.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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