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On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
I do not understand how the President and the people around him could do this. Do what? Have a commission with an outline that is very weak and won't contribute very much to find out what our intelligence community did or did not do. But maybe he could get by with it a little better by not having a person who has been proven to be one of the most partisan people in all of America as cochair of this commission. Here is a man who is violating the canons of judicial ethics and responsibilities that judges have. Yet he is on this commission as cochair. I have trouble articulating how irresponsible and unfair and brazen this is.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Criticizing the President's appointment of a partisan cochair to an intelligence commission.

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