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Liz Cheney: “If you're going to be the transparency president, and if you're going to libel the brave men and women who conducted…”

On the recordMay 20, 2009
If you're going to be the transparency president, and if you're going to libel the brave men and women who conducted this program, and if you're going to release information that helps the terrorists, at least you ought to release the information that tells the American people what we learned from this program.
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Liz Cheney
Republican · Wyoming

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Liz Cheney criticizes President Obama for not providing a full account of the interrogation program while releasing information that could aid terrorists.

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