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John Tierney: “I am saying that the testimony was from the Pentagon's own person, the person who was in charge of doing operational…”

On the recordJune 27, 2002
I am saying that the testimony was from the Pentagon's own person, the person who was in charge of doing operational testing and evaluation, Mr. Coyle. It was his job on behalf of the Pentagon, as directed by this Congress, to evaluate whether or not the testing regime was adequate, and it was not. It was basically found that all of these things would not be ready by 2004 and that the whole testing program fell short of giving us any reasonable amount of confidence that the system would be reliable.
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John Tierney
Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the inadequacies of the Pentagon's testing regime during a congressional hearing.

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