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Angus King: “I would hope that that would also--and that--the leadership and decisionmaking on that has to start with the White…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
I would hope that that would also--and that--the leadership and decisionmaking on that has to start with the White House, it has to start with the administration, for an all-of-government approach to dealing with this dispersion-of-responsibility problem.
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

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Senator King advocates for a unified government approach to cyber responsibilities.

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