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It’s not every day you hear top officials at the Pentagon publicly accuse a US senator of aiding communist states and enemies of the US.
But that’s where we’ve arrived in today’s story of modern Washington; an old-time custom is being used to grind the machinery of modern government to a halt as a senator takes a controversial public stand in the culture wars.
The senator is
