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On the recordNovember 13, 2013
What we need to do is make sure that you are comfortable with the oversight, but not to throw the baby out with the bathwater in terms of lurching too far in terms of restrictions on our intelligence.
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Lester Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson warns against over-restricting intelligence collection capabilities.

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