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On the recordApril 12, 2006
Totally unusual. The agencies understand that if we're about to take a major military action or even consider one, you bring all your intelligence agencies together and say, what do you know, and what do you know for sure before we put our troops in harms way.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin criticizes the administration for not gathering comprehensive intelligence before military action.

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