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Bill Clinton: “We have to be able to gather intelligence from people if we have reason to believe that they are threatening to use…”

On the recordMay 3, 1995
We have to be able to gather intelligence from people if we have reason to believe that they are threatening to use violence.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Interview With Laurie Montgomery of the Detroit Free Press and Angie Cannon of Knight-Ridder Newspapers

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