Bennie Thompson actually said...

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational, or socioeconomic background . . . The most effective means of identifying terrorists is through their behavior--not ethnicity, race or religion.

Context

Thompson emphasizes that effective identification of terrorists relies on behavior rather than profiling based on ethnicity or religion.

03/09/2011

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