02/01/2010
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"You're using national security as kind of a generalized premise, and I don't think valid premise, to go after countries."
"Are they a national security threat to the United States, justifying legally--you're a lawyer--the imposition of this 232?"
"Is Canada a national security threat to the United States to justify Section 232?"
"So I only can assume that you, in fact, used the term 'deterrent' and did not object to it and feel that is the appropriate policy consideration."