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Elissa Slotkin: “I think it’s important that we also realize just though -- similarly to 9/11, we don’t have the intelligence community…”

On the recordFebruary 4, 2021
I think it’s important that we also realize just though -- similarly to 9/11, we don’t have the intelligence community appropriately looking at the threat, right. We -- January 6th was an intelligence failure of some kind. Either we knew about it and we didn’t prepare enough, or we just weren’t paying attention enough to the threat of violence.
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Elissa Slotkin
Democratic · Michigan
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Slotkin emphasizes the need for the intelligence community to better address domestic threats and acknowledges the intelligence failure related to January 6th.

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