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On the recordNovember 17, 2009
We might be able to prevent 80 percent of the attacks, and I made the comment we would never do a defense budget based upon an 80-percent efficiency.
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Ben Cardin
Democratic · Maryland

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Cardin critiques the adequacy of current cybersecurity measures and calls for improvement.

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