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Burgess Owens: We want more money to go to the real defense budget, and not have Aldrich Ames and his colleagues wasting our money, at…

On the recordSeptember 7, 1995
We want more money to go to the real defense budget, and not have Aldrich Ames and his colleagues wasting our money, at the same time killing our agents. We think it is being misspent and dangerously wasted in the intelligence operation.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

Editor's note · Context

Discussing budget allocation for defense and intelligence operations.

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