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Jim Sensenbrenner: “When you commit industrial espionage against a sovereign power, ladies and gentlemen, that is, by definition, an act of…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2012
When you commit industrial espionage against a sovereign power, ladies and gentlemen, that is, by definition, an act of war, pure and simple.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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Sensenbrenner emphasizes that industrial espionage is equivalent to an act of war.

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