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On the recordNovember 12, 2013
if Homeland Security cannot apply the very rules to itself it is asking other agencies to comply with, what authority can they have in executing cybersecurity at other agencies if they do not even follow their own rules for their own agency?
Said by
Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Coburn questions DHS's authority in cybersecurity due to its own compliance failures.

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