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GOP Senators Ask If State Department Lawyers Are Removing References to ISIS ‘Genocide’

Rubio, Cornyn, four others ask if State is trying to overturn finding ISIS responsible for genocide against Christians, others BY: Susan CrabtreeFollow @susancrabtree Six Republican senators are calling on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to explain reports that top State Department lawyers are systematically removing the word “genocide” to describe the Islamic State’s slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria from official agency documents. Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), Majority Whip John Cornyn, (R., Texas), Roy Blunt, (R., Mo.,), Cory Gardner, (R., Colo.), James Lankford (R., Okla.), and Ben Sasse, (R., Neb.) sent a letter… View Article