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Claire McCaskill: “I don`t think there`s any question that the fear and the desire to show dominance played into policy decisions that were…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2021
I don`t think there`s any question that the fear and the desire to show dominance played into policy decisions that were made in the years, weeks, months following 9/11.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri
Source
msnbc.com

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Discussing how fear influenced policy decisions after 9/11.

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