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Lindsey Graham: I appreciate the remarks our colleague from Nevada, Senator Reid, has made regarding the contribution the Nevada Test…

On the recordNovember 8, 2001
I appreciate the remarks our colleague from Nevada, Senator Reid, has made regarding the contribution the Nevada Test Site has made to our development of weapons that were so critical to our success in the cold war and its potential for serving a role in the new war against terrorism. I appreciate the Senator's interest in increasing our capabilities to wage and win this war. I assure him our committee will give full attention to this opportunity. I very much appreciate the Senator having brought this to our attention. As the Senator from Nevada mentioned at the beginning of his remarks, this will be a period of some fundamental questions about the future of the intelligence community and how it can be best organized to deal with the new world in which we will be living, as opposed to the world in which it has spent most of its life to date, which was the world of a single enemy that we knew a lot about and that we had considerable experience in attempting to understand and respond to.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing the role of the Nevada Test Site in national security and intelligence reform post-9/11.

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