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On the recordMarch 14, 2012
if an al Qaeda-backed organization tried to commit a cyber attack, would you consider that an attack on the United States?
Said by
Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham asks about the implications of cyber attacks from terrorist organizations.

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