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Dick Durbin: “The value of free speech on the one hand and the value, really, of protecting and defending our country on the other.”

On the recordJune 30, 2010
The value of free speech on the one hand and the value, really, of protecting and defending our country on the other.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin highlights the conflict between free speech and national security in legal cases.

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