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Martha McSally

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Martha McSally is a Republican politician from Arizona who served as a U.S. Senator from 2019 to 2020. She was the first woman to fly in combat for the U.S. Air Force and has a notable military background. McSally was elected to the House of Representatives in 2014, representing Arizona's 2nd congressional district, where she focused on issues such as national security and veterans' affairs. During her time in the Senate, she continued to advocate for military and defense issues, as well as border security and immigration reform.

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Sep 12, 2016

Defense-in-depth and the layered approach to border security sounds good in theory, but there are real-world negative impacts for the American citizens who live at or near the border.

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Jul 13, 2016

Would they even get an interview if they have had a security violation to the nature of what Secretary Clinton did?

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Jul 13, 2016

If an airman in the Air Force had conducted behavior similar to Secretary Clinton's, I am confident, at a minimum, they would lose their clearance.

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Jul 13, 2016

But if there is markings, you either are making a marking on an Unclassified system of a Classified nature, which is disturbing in and of itself, or you are physically moving it electronically.

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Jul 13, 2016

Within the FBI, under your leadership, let's say your chief of staff or your deputy director mishandled Classified information in the same way that you know about, what would be the security and administrative consequences that you would…

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Jul 13, 2016

To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences.

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Jul 13, 2016

I served in the Air Force to 26 years.

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Jul 6, 2016

So, Mr. Chairman, I think this is an area to follow up on.

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Jul 6, 2016

I mean this seems like a gaping hole. We have done better sharing information across Federal agencies, but where we are really missing is Federal down to State and local, and then with the private sector is the real gaping hole.

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Jul 6, 2016

So this is still a problem. If our whole model is based on them identifying high risk, and we are still somewhere in, you know, less than 50 percent being correctly identified, then that is still a problem.

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Jul 6, 2016

So did I misunderstand that 6 percent and 94 percent?

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Jul 6, 2016

But you said previously it was 94 percent missed.

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Jul 6, 2016

But their whole briefing and everything yesterday was based on them identifying high threat, high risk.

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Jul 6, 2016

So if I hear you, I mean, Russia is a concern now due to lack of cooperation, mostly, lack of insight into what is really going on, whether there is positive control or not. Is that fair?

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Jul 6, 2016

We know that terrorist organizations, in my lifetime, in 26 years in the military, have been plotting and wanting to do the maximum amount of harm to our country and our way of life and our interests.

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Jun 13, 2016

It only takes one person with bad intentions, you know, to be a risk to public safety and National security.

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Jun 13, 2016

So is there any feedback loop from this report to DHS and the State Department?

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Jun 13, 2016

I think at some point, you know, quantity has a quality all of its own when you are talking about the magnitude of individuals.

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Jun 13, 2016

Will next year's report include visa overstay information on students as well?

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Jun 13, 2016

The message they are sending wide and far is just get into the country.

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Jun 13, 2016

An essential investment in our National security.

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Jun 13, 2016

I am concerned that there are unidentified National security and public safety risks in a population that large.

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