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On the recordDecember 19, 2012
And it concerns me, too, there is a foreign emergency support team, a FEST team, but yet it was not requested, it was not provided. That just is really just tragic to me.
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Wilson expresses concern over the lack of requested security support for U.S. personnel in Libya.

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