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On the recordSeptember 21, 2004
So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence reform had been implemented in 2002?
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Robert C. Byrd

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Byrd questions the effectiveness of intelligence reform recommendations.

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