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Robert Joseph: “I think it was, certainly, an intelligence failure of the first order.”

On the recordJune 9, 2015
I think it was, certainly, an intelligence failure of the first order.
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Robert Joseph

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Acknowledges the intelligence failure regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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