In September, the minister was stripped both of his intelligence network and of overall responsibility for Western Sahara.

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First, he ordered the intelligence community to assign specific responsibility to individuals to pursue all leads on specific high-priority threats.

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Putting the onus of responsibility on the intelligence services, she reiterated that the CIA had vetted the speech and cleared it "in its entirety".

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