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Bob Graham
American
Politician
Born:
Nov 9
,
1936
Administration
American People
Intelligence
People
Time
War
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We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
Bob Graham
Strong
Country
Defense
Focused
Strong Defense
Brought
About
Area
Point
Could
Concerned
Vulnerability
Greatest
Terrorist
Materials
Been
Very
America
Which
Activities
Need
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
Bob Graham
Intelligence
Investment
Make
Greater
Human
Human Intelligence
Need
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
Bob Graham
Consider
Nine
Voice
Democratic
Moderate
Candidates
Centrist
Among
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
Bob Graham
War
Time
Great
Result
President
Attention
Clearly
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.
Bob Graham
Buy
First
Defer
States
Relief
Would
Give
Rather
Small
Small Businesses
Allow
Also
Accelerate
Than
Tax
Depreciation
Incentive
Billion
Payroll
Businesses
Payroll Tax
Now
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
Bob Graham
War
Intelligence
Responsibility
Year
Military
Ought
Resources
Recognize
Take
Withdrawn
Terrorists
Were
Iraq
Offensive
Afghanistan
Where
Used
Pakistan
Last
Last Year
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
Bob Graham
Disguise
Made
Mistakes
Believe
Security
Administration
Some
Objections
Prior
Making
Issues
Were
Legitimate
Sept
Reasons
Many
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
Bob Graham
Leadership
CIA
Statements
Released
Significant
Significant Number
Administration
Status
Some
Classified
Been
Wants
Public
Sentences
Pages
Public Statements
Keep
Publicly
Number
We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.
Bob Graham
Director
CIA
Make
Strengthen
Need
Position
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
Bob Graham
War
Intelligence
Listening
Cold
Cold War
Our
Allowed
Taking
Pictures
Soviets
Human
Information
Decline
Human Intelligence
Gathered
With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
Bob Graham
Future
You
Picture
Telephone
About
Taking
Like
Learn
Learned
Terrorist
Want
Capabilities
Use
Plans
Groups
Al
Al-Qaeda
Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
Bob Graham
War
Nation
Gathering
President
Statements
Administration
Menace
Hussein
More
Take
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Voted
Most
Democrats
Were
His
Yes
Truthful
Than
Did
Them
Bush
Belief
The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
Bob Graham
People
Job
States
Kind
Inside
About
More
Dealing
Terrorists
Effective
American
Information
Informed
Capability
American People
Should
Using
United
Why
United States
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
Bob Graham
War
Intelligence
September
President
Has-Been
Reluctant
No-One
Clear
Leading
Nobody
Been
Iraq
Up
Accountable
Anybody
Hold
After
Flaws
Held
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