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Sheldon Whitehouse: “To the point the Senator just made--if he will yield for one final question. When the government would have to go into…”

On the recordJune 15, 2016
To the point the Senator just made--if he will yield for one final question. When the government would have to go into court within 72 hours in order to try to interrupt the sale, presumably that would give the person on the terrorist watch list all sorts of notice about the government's investigative activities and an opportunity in court to do further inquiry into the government's investigative activities and in fact allow somebody who is on the terrorist watch list to have a window into the government investigation that he or she might be the subject of; is that not the way that would play out? It doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Jun 15, 2016

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