Congressman: U.S. Botched Chen Case
Rep. Chris Smith, the New Jersey Republican who took a dramatic phone call from Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, tells The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz that the Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton struck a 'bad deal' in order 'to get it off the table, to push him out the door.'

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