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John Thune: “If you have a catastrophic attack, it is sort of like a 9/11 effect.”

On the recordJuly 24, 2013
If you have a catastrophic attack, it is sort of like a 9/11 effect.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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Thune compares cybersecurity failures to the urgency felt after 9/11.

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