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Jack Reed: “I appreciate the systemic approach, but in just looking back it seems to me that the approach of looking at the risk…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2010
I appreciate the systemic approach, but in just looking back it seems to me that the approach of looking at the risk assessment and evaluating it and seeing that they were doing what they said they were doing did not seem to be particularly helpful in many circumstances in the past.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed questions the effectiveness of past risk assessments.

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