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Bush Campaign Silences Prisoner
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1992, page 4
Brett Kimberlin is a federal prisoner serving time for drug and weapons charges. In November, 1988, a few days before the presidential elections, he was going to have a press conference where he was going to relate his account of having sold marijuana to now vice president Dan Quayle. Before …
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