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Jim Webb: “We tend to take these incidents as isolated incidents, and we resolve the incident, and then we dismiss it, and we say…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2009
We tend to take these incidents as isolated incidents, and we resolve the incident, and then we dismiss it, and we say things are fine.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Senator Webb discusses the misinterpretation of isolated incidents as a lack of ongoing issues.

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