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Pete Sessions: Would the distinguished managers of the bill, for whom I have so much respect, care to comment on the question that…

On the recordOctober 1, 2004
Would the distinguished managers of the bill, for whom I have so much respect, care to comment on the question that Acting Director McLaughlin posed at our hearing when he said one thing we had to be clear about was who would be responsible for stating the intelligence position of the United States to the President and who would be held accountable if they were wrong. It is a question we need to be clear about.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Discussing accountability in intelligence reporting during a hearing.

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