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Lee Hamilton: “You know your community better than the DHS Secretary or the President or anybody else.”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2011
You know your community better than the DHS Secretary or the President or anybody else.
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Lee Hamilton
Indiana

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Hamilton stresses the importance of local knowledge in assessing community vulnerabilities to terrorism.

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