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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People are going to have to be held accountable both in the law enforcement community and in the security community for the attack on Capitol Hill, the U.S. counterintelligence chief said on Monday.
The Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center William Evanina was speaking at a Washington Post event.
Reporting by Johnathan Landay and Eric Beech in Washington, D.C.
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