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Ari Fleischer: “It really looked to me as if for political reasons they did not want to indicate that America had been struck by…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2012
It really looked to me as if for political reasons they did not want to indicate that America had been struck by terrorism.
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Ari Fleischer
Republican · New York

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Fleischer critiques the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attack and its implications for national security.

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