Closing Statement by Sen. Inouye
Day 40: August 3, 1987
“a shadowy government with its own Air Force and its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own idea of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”
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