02/13/2012
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"the President has called for $400 billion in reductions to national security spending over a 10-year period starting in 2013."
"Nothing currently prohibits the CIA from being the lead in conducting interrogations?"
"One of the concerns with a more aggressive recommendation, of course, is, as Senator McCain has outlined, given the progress we have made in Afghanistan, that that progress, we could see a regression ..."
"I had the opportunity as a new Senator to go to Afghanistan in January, and I was very impressed with the progress that has been made."