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Jon Kyl: “One of the threats that has received a lot of attention in recent weeks on which I want to focus today is the threat of…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2001
One of the threats that has received a lot of attention in recent weeks on which I want to focus today is the threat of an attack by an adversary delivering a weapon of mass destruction via missile. Of course, there are other ways of creating problems for the United States. We try to deal with each of these different threats. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism of the Judiciary Committee, for example, I have worked hard to ensure we can both detect and deter terrorism, whether in the form of delivery of a weapon in a suitcase that people like to talk about or in the case of an attack directly against an installation or U.S.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing national defense and the threat of weapons of mass destruction during a Senate floor speech.

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