James Traficant: “Let us tell it like it is: America gives $60 billion a year to the FBI…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2001

Let us tell it like it is: America gives $60 billion a year to the FBI and CIA for intelligence, and the truth is we learned of every one of these tragedies from Fox News and CNN. Tell me, after all these years, you mean to tell me our intelligence network cannot locate and infiltrate Osama bin Laden's organization? Tell me, Congress, when are we going to tell Afghanistan, when are we going to tell Iran that if they are housing bin Laden we will declare war against them? The truth is we have an intelligence network that is so dumb they could throw themselves at the ground and miss, and Congress keeps throwing money down a black hole. I yield back the fact that this is another tragedy that could have been prevented, that everybody knew was coming, and it will not be the last.

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James Traficant

Ohio

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Addressing failures in U.S. intelligence and national security in the wake of various attacks.

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