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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: What is new is that some hijackers smashed into the World Trade Center killing thousands of people and killed some…

On the recordJuly 23, 2002
What is new is that some hijackers smashed into the World Trade Center killing thousands of people and killed some heroes also in the Pentagon. What is new is that the administration has made public for the first time something that the intelligence community came to the conclusion about in 1999, and that is there is a biological weapons program in Castro's Cuba. That is what is new. It is not a fetish, I think that is word of the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Flake), or fad, when we are talking about protecting American citizens. If the Flake amendment passes without the Goss amendment, it is not going to be a SCUD missile. Let us say that Castro happens to be wrong and that his denial of the fact that he has biological weapons is a lie, like he denied 40 years ago that he had another kind of weapon. I think it was a nuclear weapon, he was denying that. Happened to be wrong. Let us say that he happens to be wrong again and that he does have biological weapons, as our intelligence community says so and has said so repeatedly, not just Mr. Bolton, Mr. Ford, the head of the State Department intelligence department, the intelligence community. By the way, they have both said that there is a lot more that the intelligence community does not let them say. There is a lot more that we know. Let us say that Castro does have biological weapons. Let us just say. It is not a fad now. Let us just say.
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Florida

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Discussing the threat of biological weapons in Cuba during a speech on national security.

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