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On the recordJune 10, 2009
The national disgrace of our present criminal justice system does not present us with the horrifying immediacy of the 9/11 attacks.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Jim Webb compares the urgency of criminal justice reform to the 9/11 attacks.

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