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Elijah Cummings: “It seems like we have a culture of secrecy, a culture of complacency, a culture of fear of retaliation.”

On the recordMarch 3, 2015
It seems like we have a culture of secrecy, a culture of complacency, a culture of fear of retaliation.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings highlights issues of transparency and fear within the agency.

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