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Representative Heather Wilson: I know we are coming to the end of this hour, but I think there is something important for Americans to understand. We…

On the recordOctober 23, 2007
I know we are coming to the end of this hour, but I think there is something important for Americans to understand. We all remember where we were the morning of 9/11. We remember what we were wearing, what we had for breakfast, whom we were with, and that is seared into our memories. Very few Americans remember where they were when the British Government arrested 16 people who were within 48 hours of walking onto airliners at Heathrow and blowing them up simultaneously over the Atlantic. We don't remember it because it didn't happen. And it didn't happen because American, British, and Pakistani intelligence were working together to disrupt the plot and prevent the terrorist attack. That is what matters here. We want to stop those memories from being created before the event happens.

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Discussing the importance of intelligence cooperation in preventing terrorist attacks.

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