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On the recordMay 19, 2004
Reclaiming my time, we talk about are we better off. Think about it. It is 1995-1996. We have been attacked a few different times in a few different places around the globe. We know that the organization that is attacking us is a terrorist organization. It is not a nation state, so it does not have a defined boundary. It does not have buildings that you could go and occupy or you could declare war on. So, what is the response that we have in the intelligence community in 1995-1996? ... So if you want a career-ending move, send us a bunch of folks that have questionable backgrounds and tell us you would like to recruit them to be spies.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the intelligence community's response to terrorism in the mid-1990s.

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