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On the recordJune 3, 2013
General Dempsey, you said the same thing. You said that you might argue that we have become too forgiving because if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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Discusses concerns about leniency towards decorated military offenders.

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