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James Lankford: “It is an experiment that was put in place after 9/11.”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Joins Fox News Sunday

Published | Video Starts at 08:09

It is a bureaucratic entity that, by the way, there is wide perspective to be able to get rid of it entirely because it literally slows down the intelligence gathering across all of our intelligence agencies. It is an experiment that was put in place after 9/11. 9, 11 that I think in the days ahead there will be a decrease of those folks that are actually there. Many of them are just detailed to serve with the Director of National Intelligence. (08:09–08:18)

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Asserts that the Office of Director of National Intelligence was established as an experiment after the 9/11 attacks.

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