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Harry Reid: “there was more brass in 407 last Thursday than would make up a band, four stars all over the place, including the…”

On the recordMay 5, 2004
there was more brass in 407 last Thursday than would make up a band, four stars all over the place, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Not a single one of those people in the chain of command even breathed a word of the impending scandal that they knew about as they briefed us. It is a terrible situation when we meet in secret up in room 407 and something as scandalous as American troops killing--we now have confirmed two homicides--prisoners of war in addition to humiliating them through sexual pictures and doing other things that speak so poorly of our military that I am sickened to my stomach.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Addressing the scandal involving American troops and the treatment of prisoners of war.

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