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Robert Dornan: I can tell my colleagues, you only have to be there a few months, read the National Intelligence Daily, and you will…

On the recordMay 15, 1996
I can tell my colleagues, you only have to be there a few months, read the National Intelligence Daily, and you will understand what a serious and dangerous world this is. With all the weapons that the Soviet Union has destroyed, they still keep the majority. Constantly in the open press we are reading about the danger of nuclear material and/or missile technology leaking out into the rogue nations of the world, North Korea, Iran, some unholy alliance between an oriental country and a radical Islamic terrorist state. This is a dangerous world. When we look at the situation, the volatile situation in Russia, when they have crushed Christianity in their nation over the better part of this century and drove anti-Semitism and now they have a country that has partially lost its soul, its conscience, and they are into what I call dark capitalism, like pornography and prostitution and drug dealing and illegal corporate rip-offs, dark capitalism is ripping that country apart as they try to find their way through a free market economy.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing global security threats and the situation in Russia during a House floor speech.

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