Prevention is likely to be more cost-effective than surveillance, trials, or wars.
Bennie Thompson: “Prevention is likely to be more cost-effective than surveillance, trials, or wars.”
On the recordJuly 14, 2015
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Thompson emphasizes the cost-effectiveness of prevention over traditional counterterrorism methods.
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