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Deborah Koff Ross: if we don't have some element of success in actually preventing what we are setting out to do, then what good is all…

On the recordJune 7, 2016
if we don't have some element of success in actually preventing what we are setting out to do, then what good is all this intelligence and surveillance that we are doing?
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

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Ross questions the effectiveness of intelligence without actionable outcomes.

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