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Trey Gowdy: I naively thought the attorney general, as the top law enforcement official in the Department of Justice, was that…

On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
I naively thought the attorney general, as the top law enforcement official in the Department of Justice, was that independent entity that we could trust.
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Trey Gowdy
Republican · South Carolina

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Gowdy expresses disappointment in the trustworthiness of the Attorney General.

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