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Pete Sessions: That is another example of the poor drafting of this statute, to hold somebody accountable for a perfectly innocent…

On the recordJuly 14, 2005
That is another example of the poor drafting of this statute, to hold somebody accountable for a perfectly innocent mistake--a strict liability statute that requires only the revealing of information that somebody happened to be a covert agent when the person did not even know it.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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