The White House has since said intelligence was too weak to support the assertion.

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Surprisingly, few individual gun runners face jail time because of weak international laws and relationships with state intelligence agencies.

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But many public interest groups call the final version weak, because it omitted a provision in the Senate version that would have regulated "political intelligence, " the practice of gathering information from lawmakers and Hill aides that could be used to make investment decisions.

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