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Joe Manchin: “If we don't have programs like this and we're attacked, we won't have civil liberties and privacy.”

On the recordMarch 29, 2017
If we don't have programs like this and we're attacked, we won't have civil liberties and privacy.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin emphasizes the need for surveillance programs to protect civil liberties.

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