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Julian Bond: “Does the Senator realize all the rest of the Intelligence Committee is in S-407 receiving a 300-page report compiled…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2004
Does the Senator realize all the rest of the Intelligence Committee is in S-407 receiving a 300-page report compiled over 8 months by the entire staff of the Intelligence Committee, after over a couple of hundred interviews and reviewing tens of thousands of documents, which goes right to this question and which we in the committee will be working on and trying to present either in classified or we hope mostly unclassified material so we can carry on this debate? Is the Senator aware that the reason there are not members of the Intelligence Committee here is that they are getting that information right now? Is the Senator aware of that?
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Julian Bond
Alabama

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Addressing the absence of Intelligence Committee members during a discussion.

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