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Dick Durbin: “Of course. It should be taken to where it leads, period. But let me also ask--I do not know if quoting from a book on…”

On the recordAugust 1, 2012
Of course. It should be taken to where it leads, period. But let me also ask--I do not know if quoting from a book on the floor means what was written in that book is necessarily true. Perhaps the Senator has his own independent information on that. Mr. McCAIN. But no one has challenged Mr. Sanger's depiction. No one in the administration has challenged his assertion that he was taken by ``a senior official in the National Security Council to the presidential suite.'' No one has challenged that.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Aug 1, 2012

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