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Patrick Leahy: “These lawyers told the administration not what President Bush should have heard, but rather what Vice President Cheney…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2010
These lawyers told the administration not what President Bush should have heard, but rather what Vice President Cheney wanted to hear.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy asserts that legal counsel favored Cheney's interests over Bush's.

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