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Bill Clinton: “If you have a hunch about something, if you see something that's suspicious, you should report it, just to make sure…”

On the recordDecember 22, 1999
If you have a hunch about something, if you see something that's suspicious, you should report it, just to make sure that we do everything we possibly can to maximize our protection. But I wouldn't just hunker down until it was all over. Mr. King. Colin Powell says that maybe by doing all this, you've scared them off. You know, if you make people fear the alert so much, that might cause terrorists to have a second thought.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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