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Hillary Clinton: “We were not making up the intelligence. We were trying to get it, make sense of it, and then to share it.”

On the recordOctober 21, 2015
We were not making up the intelligence. We were trying to get it, make sense of it, and then to share it.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clinton explains the challenges faced in interpreting intelligence during the Benghazi attack.

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