Senator Menendez, in an extraordinary speech, accused the Justice Department of targeting him in a public smear campaign, saying prosecutors brought indictments based on baseless conjecture, not facts and dribbled out new accusations to erode his public standing.
I don't want you to lose sight of how dangerous this precedent would be to all of you, the senator said, suggesting provocatively that the government's approach, if successful, could make it a crime to advocate for a foreign government to buy American aircraft or agricultural goods.
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