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On the recordJuly 6, 2016
Here's what the Department filing said about General Petraeus, and I quote: "The acts taken by defendant David Howell Petraeus were in all respects knowing and deliberate and were not committed by mistake, accident, or other innocent reason," end of quote.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings references a Department filing about Petraeus's deliberate actions.

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