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On the recordMarch 27, 2012
I think that with those protections, less is likely to go wrong than in prosecutions that are based on a hide-the-ball strategy.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse argues that transparency in prosecutions is safer than secretive strategies.

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