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On the recordAugust 1, 2012
I just don't want the agency, the State Department or any agency, to get tunnel vision, to be so focused on what you perceive as the threat coming from al-Qaeda that we get blindsided.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Duncan warns against focusing solely on al-Qaeda as a threat.

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