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Rob Portman: “Wouldn't it be ironic if our own State Department is not able to do that to fight terrorism?”

On the recordJuly 5, 2016
Wouldn't it be ironic if our own State Department is not able to do that to fight terrorism?
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Portman points out the irony of the State Department's limitations in countering terrorism.

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