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On the recordJuly 30, 2012
As we watch every terrorist act, the aftermath of that, people start doing a postmortem on that, and they go, well, we had this information, why did we not put two and two together and prevent the attack.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Discussing the challenge of preventing terrorist attacks with available information.

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