More communication required to find bin Laden

Rep. Mac Thornberry discusses America's inability to find Osama bin Laden despite our nation's communication capabilities. He calls for the creation of a non-partisan private organization to facilitate communication within and between governments (1:30).
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Thornberry says we cannot kill every terrorist

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) says that after September 11th he realized that the U.S. would not be able to capture and kill every terrorist, but rather that we stood the risk of creating more terrorists than we removed from the battlefield. He also says that while there was an ideological component to our opposition to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, since then our "us versus them" perception has greatly receded, to our detriment. (:57)
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Election year or not--security should come first

House Armed Services Committee subcommittee on Terrorism and Unconventional Threats ranking member, Mac Thornberry (R-TX) says that efforts at security legislation are being punished by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who, he says, is using the Colombia Free Trade Agreement as "political leverage." (0:38)


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"Our potential vulnerability to new threats grows everyday"

House Armed Services Committee subcommittee on Terrorism and Unconventional Threats ranking member, Mac Thornberry (R-TX) argues that his committee can not fully do its job to fight terrorism if other security measures like FISA or authorizing interrogation techniques are not addressed in the House. (0:57)
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