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The proposed DHS will also need to immediately improve the government's overall ability to perform risk management activities that can help to prevent, defend against, and respond to terrorist acts.
The piece also carried this quote from Clinton staffer James E. Kennedy in response to congressional complaints about the number of White House lawyers working to defend Clinton: "It's like an arsonist complaining about the size of the fire department."
Conservatives used to defend this concept (which they called "deterrence") when it was preached and practiced by President Reagan.
The Mir press event was a platform for the just-returned and much-maligned cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliev to defend himself and to vent about the Russian space program, the Russian economy, and Russian life.
This meant, for instance, that they didn't just defend Reagan administration officials, like Ed Meese, who were accused of wrongdoing.