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3. They used a building that the U.S. already owed.

Mon May 14, 2018, 04:09 PM

May 2018

It was not built from the "ground up". It went through some security upgrades but that was it.

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They used a building that the U.S. already owed. former9thward May 2018 #3

It's basically a room in an existing building. Control-Z May 2018 #4

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