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On the recordFebruary 24, 2014
If we hope to increase the support we provide to the Lebanese Armed Forces, how can we assure that any technological capacity or weapons systems or weaponry--that there are appropriate safeguards and accountability controls over U.S.-supplied security material so that they stay in the right hands and do not fall into the wrong hands in the middle of a very volatile security environment?
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine questions safeguards for U.S. military support to Lebanon.

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