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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. One of the most egregious situations when it

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comes to Jeffrey Epstein is the fact that the Department

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of Justice has gotten away with negligence for decades. The

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first time Mario reported Jeffrey Epstein to the authorities, it

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should have been followed up on, It should have been investigated,

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and action should have been taken. And because the FBI

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and the DOJ ignored the warning, it led directly to

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countless girls and women being abused in the future. And

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I'm not naive, right, I understand that time has passed,

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and we all know that as you're investigating something and

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time goes by, things happen to the evidence and it

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ends up walking away. Whether that's by negligence or by design,

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it happens. But you know what they can hide. You

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know what's impossible for them to ignore if we really

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start looking into it, is the way the Justice Department

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conducted themselves from the very beginning. And I think that

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if we really want to get to the bottom of

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all of this, that's where we have to start, because

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we have to hold them accountable for what they have

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done or what they haven't done, and now, of course

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they're engaging in a widespread cover up at what seems

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to be the behest of a sitting United States president.

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So yeah, we have some questions, and we're not the

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only ones, and that's because some senators are seeking to

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review the Justice Department's handling of these files. And that

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is exactly what should be happening. And any person who

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is not in compliance with the law should be held accountable,

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and if any crimes were committed, those people should be prosecuted.

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And in a perfect world, that's what would happen. But

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we all know that we don't live in a perfect world,

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and we certainly do not live in a perfect country.

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Today's article is from the Washington Post and the headline

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senators seek review of Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files.

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This article was authored by Theodoric Meyer. A bipartisan group

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of senators is asking the Government Accountability Office to examine

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the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein

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amid concerns the Department is not released all the documents

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required by law. Well, I don't think you have to

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be an insider to know that they're not complying with

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the law. They're doing whatever they want. And the reason is,

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as I've stated numerous times, because they have nothing to fear.

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Do you really think that Donald Trump isn't going to

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pardon these people use a blanket pardon the same way

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Joe Biden did. He most certainly is, and that gives

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his people the brazenness that they need to get up

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there and act the full. If they know they're never

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going to be accountable for the bullshit they're doing, then

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why would they stop show up with the hit list,

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talk about the Dow whole bunch of wild shit, and

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none of it's relating to the topic at hand. President

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Trump in November signed a nearly hunanimously passed law mandating

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the Justice Department make public records related to the late

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convicted sex offender with narrow restrictions, and those narrow restrictions

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certainly became wide. Huh. Let's be real. They're pretty much

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doing whatever they want, and then they just make up

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excuses as they go along. Oh, we didn't put this

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out because X and Y and Z, and then we're

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over here like, well, that's not what the law says

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you have to do, and the DOJ's answer, we are

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the law out here. Like Judge Dread, The Department released

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millions of pages of documents, but Democrats and some Republicans

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in Congress have raised concerns about how faithfully it complied

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with the law. The lawmakers have questioned whether all relevant

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files have been released, criticize the Department for failing to

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redact victims' names in some instances, and challenge decisions to

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redact the names of Epstein associates they believed should have

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been identified. Well, yeah, if you're not a victim, why

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is your name redacted. That's not what the law says.

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The law doesn't say protect our friends. It doesn't say

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keep less Wexner from embarrassment. It says protect the names

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of the people who are abused. That's what it says.

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But like usual, this administration doesn't give a damn what

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the law says. They're just gonna do whatever they want,

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and until somebody stands up and stops them, that's going

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to continue to happen. Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat from Oregon,

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Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Republican Ben Ray Lujan, Democrat from

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New Mexico, and Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, asked the

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g an independent agency that's part of the legislative branch,

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on Wednesday, to examine how the Department reviewed the files

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and the resulting failure of the Department to follow the law,

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respond to Congress, and protect victims. And so Lisa Murkowski

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is the only person that signed off on this. Murkowski

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is the only Republican that's willing to play ball. Makes

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sense considering the way they're protecting these people, considering the

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fight they're putting up when it comes to transparency, and

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considering the war pathon when it comes to anybody asking questions,

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It's not a shock that more members of the GOP

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seem disinterested when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. The Senators

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are seeking details, including how many people were tasked with

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reviewing and redacting the files as the Justice Department scrambled

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to comply with the law, and then he guidance the

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administration provided them. In a letter to or Rice Williams Brown,

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GAO's acting comptroller, they echoed concerns by Representative Rocanna and

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Thomas Massey, the authors of the law requiring the files

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to be made public, about how the files were redacted.

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That should be concerning to anybody. I don't understand how

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it's an issue. How has this become a wedge issue.

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It's wild to me that anybody could look at this

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and say to themselves, you know what, this is a

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one side or the other issue. It's both sides. It's

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everybody with power. And the more the pitchforks and torches

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fight with each other, the better these people are. Contrary

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to Congress's explicit directive to protect victims, these records included

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email addresses and nude photos in which the names and

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faces of publicly identified and non public victims could be identified.

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The senators wrote, But when it came to information identifying

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powerful business and politics figures who are allegedly co conspirators

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or material witnesses, the DOJ appears to have heavily redacted

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those records, not appeers, that's what they did. Got to

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make sure you protect the bag man right. Got to

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make sure Leon Black doesn't get put on blast. Got

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to make sure Les Wesner is still swimming around that

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money like Scrooge McDuck and all those girls who were victimized.

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Who gives a shit, They don't matter, not to these people.

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The letter comes as lawmakers and both parties have continued

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to scrutinize the Department's handling of the files, more than

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a month after most of them were made public. And

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I think that everybody's scrutinizing them, and I don't know

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how anyone, being honest with themselves can say that this

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has been a transparent process, because in my opinion, it's

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been the complete opposite. But the good news is the

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dow was over a fifty thousand. Senate Minority Leader Charles

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Schumer accused the Department last month of orchestrating a massive

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cover up to protect Trump and Depstein's associates. The House

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Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted last week to subpoena

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Attorney General Paum Bondy, with five Republicans joining Democrats and

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voting to compel her to appear for a closed door deposition.

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Well it's about time. I mean, you would think that

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pound Bondi, of all people, should be answering some questions, right,

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Probably a good idea, But unfortunately, what we're gonna get

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is another performance. She's gonna get up there, act indignant

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and act like she's the one who's being victimized well

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at the same time not even recognizing the actual victims. Now,

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think about that and think about how that makes those

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survivors feel. Bondi has defended the Department's compliance with the law.

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The Department made public more records last week that it

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said were not released before because they were wrongly determined

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to be duplicates of other records. Sure they were. I'm

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sure that's exactly what happened. Have you noticed that all

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the records they quote unquote forget to release, damning? I know,

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just another coincidence that it happens to be those documents

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that get forgotten about. This administration released over three million

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pages of documents, over three million, and Donald Trump signed

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that law to release all those documents. Bondie testified last

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month in a contentious appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.

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He is the most transparent president in the nation's history. Wow.

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Like for that alone, she should be charged with perjury.

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That's an obvious lie. The most transparent president of all time. Yes,

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so transparent that he had to get dragged, kicking and

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screaming into signing the bill. Super transparent. The senator's request

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is not lawmaker's first effort to unearth more details about

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how the department has handled the massive task of reviewing

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and redacting the files. A dozen senators, including Berkeley, Murkowski,

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and Durban, wrote in this to don Bertha, you the

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Justice departments Acting Inspector General to ask them to audit

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the department's compliance with the law. The Inspector General's office

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did not immediately respond to a request about whether it

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has undertaken such an audit. Look, I doubt that they will.

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And even if they do, do you really trust the

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OIG after everything that we've seen, after all the reports

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we've read, I don't trust them at all. So that's

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why I continue to call for a special counsel or

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some kind of tribunal something, because what we're doing now

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is not working, and we can't trust the DOJ to

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police themselves. And that's why I'm so against the OIG

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when it comes to situations like this, because the past

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has proven that they're more interested in covering for the

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government rather than holding the government responsible for their misconduct.

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Now that said, at least the Senate is making this move,

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But if they really want to have some teeth, if

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they really want to get people know at the DOJ

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and they really want to force compliance. The way to

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do that is with the Special Council. So the question

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is will we ever get there? Will we ever have

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a special council appointed to take a look at what's

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happened here going all the way back to the first

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Clinton administration? I don't know, but I think we should

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and I think that if we ever want to get

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any kind of clarity, if we ever want to get

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to the bottom of what truly happened, then I think

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a special Council is a vehicle to get us there.

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And that's why I don't think we'll ever see it.

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So what do you folks think? Do you think we're

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going to ever get real transparency here? Do you think

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the Senate or Congress is going to force the hand

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of the DOJ or do you think it's going to

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be more of the same. Shoot me some emails and

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let me know. All the information that goes with this

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