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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano testifies on homeland threats and agency responses before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano (center), FBI Associate Deputy Director Kevin Perkins (left) and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew G. Olsen (second from left) arrive to testify on homeland threats and agency responses before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (left) and Sen. Susan M. Collins (second from left) greet Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano (right), FBI Associate Deputy Director Kevin Perkins (third from right) and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew G. Olsen (second from right) before they testify on homeland threats and agency responses before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano (third from left), FBI Associate Deputy Director Kevin Perkins (left) and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew G. Olsen (second from left) arrive to testify on homeland threats and agency responses in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks Sept. 17, 2012, to reporters in Costa Mesa, Calif. (Associated Press)

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Fighters opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power jokingly take up fighting positions as they man a roadblock in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Children look on as a fighter opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo passes in a pickup truck in the Anyama neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Fighters opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power man a roadblock in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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A fighter opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power displays the amulets he wears to protect himself from enemy fire, in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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**FILE** An exterior view of a home sold in Palo Alto, Calif., is seen here Aug. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, smiles Sept. 18, 2012, as she talks with reporters in Chicago after the union's House of Delegates voted to suspend a seven-day strike. (Associated Press)