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On the recordNovember 11, 2012
If that's the case then it was a real dereliction of duty because the president's main job above all is to be commander-in-chief.
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Peter King
Republican · New York

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Peter King suggests that if politics influenced the timing of informing the president, it was a failure of duty.

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