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Bill Clinton: From what I know now, the FBI would have to consider that based on the rhetoric and the conduct and make a judgment…

On the recordMay 4, 1995
From what I know now, the FBI would have to consider that based on the rhetoric and the conduct and make a judgment based on the facts of each group. I don't want to jump the gun here. I think it's important--what I'm asking for is to give us the tools we need to combat terrorism. I know--for example, if you look at Israel, for all the terrible incidents they have endured, well over half of the planned terrorist incidents in Israel never occur because they have the capacity to defang them. We have endured this awful bombing in Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center bombing, which came from a group outside this country that infiltrated here. We also--our Federal authorities have been successful in heading off at least two other incidents of terrorism that we know about that they were able to stop from occurring. We just believe--I cannot tell you how strongly I believe that this is the major threat to the security of Americans looking toward the 21st century, that the fundamental problem--it's not just in America. It's the same thing with that group of religious fanatics where the guy broke the vial of sarin gas in the Japanese subway. It's exactly the same thing. The things which will make life exciting for all of our young college graduates--high technology society, free flow of people, goods, technology, and information, a highly open world society--make people very, very vulnerable to the forces of organized evil. Ms. Montgomery. I guess I'm asking, you know, just in case there are any Michigan Militia members in the audience in Spartan Stadium tomorrow, you know, do you think that they are----
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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