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Patrick Leahy: “Would the Republican leader yield for a question? The minority leader will not yield for a question, but I would note…”

On the recordNovember 18, 2014
Would the Republican leader yield for a question? The minority leader will not yield for a question, but I would note, based on his concerns about the bipartisan piece of legislation regarding the NSA and others and his concern about ISIL--which we all share--that the NSA and all of our intelligence community had every single tool the Republican leader advocates for, while ISIL built up its strength, while ISIL had Iraq's army flee from them while they went forward. With every single one of those elements the Republican leader advocates for, there was not one single alarm bell that rang. So let's deal with the facts and not hypotheses. ____________________
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Nov 18, 2014

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