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On the recordJuly 13, 2004
I mean, when we see what the State Department has done, and they tried, and I think Colin Powell actually made a genuine effort to tell the President what was what about Iraq. But the Vice President of the United States saw fit to go out to Langley, that is where the CIA is, out in Langley, Virginia, to go out there 5 times to tell them, look harder at that data. You are not coming up with the right answer.
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

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Discussing the actions of the Vice President regarding intelligence on Iraq.

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