Richard Durbin actually said...

Before any coalition planes were in the sky over Libya, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control had frozen $32 billion in Libyan assets.

Context

Durbin highlights the financial actions taken against Gaddafi before military intervention.

04/04/2011

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