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Terrorism. Since the September terrorist attacks, numerous congressional hearings have addressed the issue. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has been among the agencies frequently asked to express its views.
Nancy Kingsbury, managing director of GAO's Applied Research and Methods, testified before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans' Affairs, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform that the Department of Defense had …