Carly Fiorina called for more robust private sector involvement in the war on terror during Tuesday's GOP presidential debate, knocking government bureaucracy as "woefully behind."

"Why did we mis the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple?" the former tech executive asked on CNN, referring to the brothers who launched the 2013 attack at the Boston Marathon and the couple who killed 14 in California last week.

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"This is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curb. Secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well."