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Liz Cheney: “But the president won't let the American people see. He was in the National Archives today, which is the building where…”

On the recordMay 20, 2009
But the president won't let the American people see. He was in the National Archives today, which is the building where these memos are housed. He could have walked up the stairs to the second floor of that building, and, with his pen, signed a declassification order, and those memos would be here tonight, so you and I could actually have a discussion about what we learned from the program.
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Liz Cheney
Republican · Wyoming

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Liz Cheney criticizes the president for not declassifying memos related to national security.

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