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Yvette Clarke: “The previous administration's National Security Strategy and National Strategy for Homeland Security excluded response…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2012
The previous administration's National Security Strategy and National Strategy for Homeland Security excluded response to natural disasters from its definition of homeland security.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Clarke highlights the exclusion of natural disasters in past security strategies.

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