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COPYRIGHT 2004 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Byline: CHRIS WARDEN
It may seem odd to call a 24-year veteran of the House of Representatives an outsider. But Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has made a career out of bucking Washington's insiders.
And his latest stand is a tribute to the way representative democracy is supposed to work.
You see, Hunter did not rush with the Washington crowd to "reform" the nation's intelligence system. In fact, he is being cast as a villain for blocking a bill that all the insiders were pushing.
Hunter correctly saw that the bill would have...
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