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Lee Hamilton: “I think the American people have every right to be totally upset and irate about what has happened in this instance...”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
I think the American people have every right to be totally upset and irate about what has happened in this instance...
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Lee Hamilton
Indiana

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Hamilton argues that the public is justified in their anger over the Yucca Mountain project failures.

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