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Susan Collins: “Neither President Bush nor President Obama has fully valued the DNI as the principal adviser to the President the way we…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
Neither President Bush nor President Obama has fully valued the DNI as the principal adviser to the President the way we intended in the law.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Collins critiques the lack of value placed on the DNI by recent presidents.

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