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Bill Nelson: What has happened to our world today? It is almost, if one person says it is white, another person says it is black; if…

On the recordFebruary 10, 2004
What has happened to our world today? It is almost, if one person says it is white, another person says it is black; if a person says it is up, another person says it is down. Where is common sense? Where is reconciliation? Where is consensus building? Where is bipartisanship? Take another issue. As I continue to have this dialog with the Senator from Michigan, take another issue, take the issue of the so-called independent commission that has just been appointed to find out what went wrong with intelligence. How can a commission be independent when it is just appointed by one authority, i.e., the President, who is going to be part of the subject of the investigation of the commission? That is not independence. What we need is a commission that is truly independent, that is appointed by the Congress and the President.
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida

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Discussing the need for true independence in the commission investigating intelligence failures.

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