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Major Owens: I ask my colleagues to pardon my ignorance, but I am not a lawyer and I have not been impressed with the legal…

On the recordDecember 1, 1997
I ask my colleagues to pardon my ignorance, but I am not a lawyer and I have not been impressed with the legal gymnastics of the Committee on the Judiciary hearings
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Major Owens
New York
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Dec 1, 1997

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