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On the recordJanuary 22, 2013
And 7 hours, I mean, goodness gracious, there should have been a response. Why the delay in labeling the attack as terrorism when it was immediately known that it was.
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

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Questioning the delay in responding to the Benghazi attack as terrorism.

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