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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
I thought it was a digital Watergate. He stole 4,670 computer files from six Democratic Senators.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy describes the severity of document theft by a Republican staffer.

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