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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
Not only did the 9/11 attacks represent a 'failure of imagination,' as the 9/11 Commission found, they also revealed the inadequacy of communications equipment, technology, and systems.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Senator Collins discusses the communication inadequacies revealed by the 9/11 attacks.

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