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May 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 6, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
You realize how shaken the left must be in America today.
Do you realize it, folks?
I mean you see Emmy of the NRA convention over the week in Houston.
I'm good what everybody rocked.
Palin Rock, she went out there with some chewing tobacco.
But Wayne Lapierre, one of the most brilliant approaches, and I've ever seen.
He's got a crowd.
By the way, greetings, my friends, America's real anchor man, Rush Limboy here behind the golden EIB microphone, another exciting sterling week of broadcast excellence headed your way, the nation's most listened to radio talk show.
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We had Wayne Lapierre.
He's got a crowd of 5,000 people in that convention center.
And he says, if you're a school teacher, stand up.
If you're a fireman, stand up.
If you're a cop, stand up.
If you're a housewife, stand up.
He went through every normal American behavioral pattern, occupation, way of life.
And at the end of it, everybody was standing up, 5,000 people.
And on display was the unmistakable conclusion that the NRA is everybody.
The NRA is America.
And I'm going to tell you the and so are supporters of the NRA and even people who are not members.
And the left had to look at that and quake in fear.
And the Heritage Foundation today, folks, is out with a summary of the Gang of Eight Immigration Plan.
Robert Rector and one of his colleagues have put together a really comprehensive study of the Gang of Eight Bill.
And it's called the The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. taxpayer.
And there is a five-page summary of this report that is available of explaining to you how you can get it in mere moments here on the on the program.
Let me just give you an upshot.
The legalization, the cost of legalization of this particular piece of legislation, will net to 6.3 trillion dollars.
They detail all of the people who are here illegally, who, if granted amnesty, what programs, welfare and other things, education free, otherwise they will be given access to.
It is shocking.
It is stunning.
And this, I'm sure, has the left profoundly upset and uh and irritated.
Bengazi.
I'm watching the golf tournament.
Oh, folks, I tell you, I went out and played yesterday.
I've been have not been playing much since last July.
I had frozen shoulder.
Didn't know what it was.
My left shoulder kept getting progressively worse and worse.
Range of motion limited, very, very painful.
And I just figured it was something that would get better over time.
And it kept getting worse and worse and worse, and I couldn't play golf.
And finally, one of my golf buddies sent his doctor to see me because they were tired of me not playing with them.
My friends missed me.
So they sent a doctor.
And the doctor in 20 seconds of diagnosis, you got frozen shoulder.
I said, What's that?
He said, if you could see it, everything in your shoulder is blazing red.
You just entirely uh it's what's the word irritation of what whatever it was.
I said, Well, what do we do about it?
Well, you need a cortisone shot.
I said, okay, it doesn't bother me.
Twenty-four, thirty-six hours, you'll notice that it'll start getting better immediately.
So, what happens if I don't take a shot?
Well, it'll get better on its own.
You could take 10 advil a day, and in 10 or 11 months it'd go away.
Ten or eleven months.
Yep.
Ten or eleven months.
This doctor, a renowned shoulder surgeon, by the way.
So got the cortisone shot uh on the way out of town for a trip to Las Vegas.
And sure enough, 24 to 36 hours, there was dramatic improvement, but the one shot didn't totally wipe it out.
But I started playing golf again.
I had not played since last July.
So I've played since then now maybe four or five times.
I got the second quarter zone shot about a month ago, and it totally, totally got rid of the frozen shoulders.
Back to 100%, well, they just I cannot fully reach behind my back with my left hand, but that's inconsequential.
I went out played yesterday, what a magic front nine.
I had a 38 on a real golf course.
Not a short, tricked-up golf course, but a real golf course, real length, and I have never played this well in my life.
Every shot, bullseye.
I can't describe to you how it felt.
I didn't matter if it was 185 yards or 210 yards or 80 yards or 100 yards dead on.
One shot to a long par four.
I had a hundred and uh, what was it, eighty-five yards in, I grabbed a five-iron and hit the pin and trickled off to about five feet and out of birdie.
And then we stopped, this always happened, stopped for lunch, not lunch, but a snack, and I said to everybody, that's it.
Whenever we stop and I have something to eat, that and I shot a 45 on the back nine.
So I still had an 82.
So anyway, I'm all jazzed, so I get home and and I'm I'm watching a golf tournament yesterday, and there's a crawl from CBS Sports promoting the upcoming 60 minutes, saying that they have a new version of what happened in Benghazi that is unlike anything the White House has been saying.
So I say, whoa.
And then I got the audio soundbite roster today, and I find out that on CBS, what is it, this slay the nation yesterday, Bob Schaeffer was all upset because Susan Rice lied to him.
All this time, Bob Schiefer has believed the video story.
And now that the whistleblowers have come forward, and now that the truth of what happened in Benghazi is beginning to come out, Bob Schaefer's a little upset.
So we've got those sound bites.
Um we have, remember on Friday, we spent a lot of time analyzing Obama's speech to the students in Mexico City.
And one of the aspects of his speech in Mexico City to the students at the Anthropology Museum, he uh he talked about Mexican sovereignty and American sovereignty and how we've pushed our sovereignty on them.
I scratched my head and said, What's this?
And during a commercial break, I found out what he was talking about.
He was talking about the fact that to many Mexicans, they still consider Southern California theirs, parts of New Mexico and Arizona theirs.
And he was agreeing with them.
He said, Well, he says, I understand how you feel.
Now we've pushed our sovereign.
Well, we're going to change all this.
And I thought that was, in addition to apologizing again for America and blaming America, he went down there.
What turns out, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that, let's see, Sunday morning on CB.
CBS Sunday morning, they they had a their correspondent Mo Roca did a report about the impact of the Mexican American war on today's debate on immigration reform.
Mo Roca is a is a comedian.
I guess he became known to people on the on the Daily Show.
But this is a straight news story, and it's aimed right at America's low information voters.
And he went to Mexico to explain the Mexican American war, and well, you'll hear it.
Makes the case that the United States had no reason that we're that we're guilty.
There was no reason for us to go conquer Mexico.
There's no reason for us to shut.
But it it's a it's fast.
The low information voter in this country is being conditioned to believe that California really is Mexico.
That it's not right that it's America.
And the same thing with New Mexico and parts of Arizona.
So there's that.
Um, the heritage study, as I as I'm in Benghazi, let's see, what else do we have?
Uh Obama at Ohio State.
Obama went to Ohio State University and told the grad, he did the commencement speech.
He told the graduates to reject voices that warn about government tyranny.
Now we have the audio of this, well, just give you a little preview.
Obama said, unfortunately, to the students at Ohio State, the Ohio State University, sorry, I want to get that right.
President said, unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems.
Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works.
They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.
You should reject these voices.
Because what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.
That's not at all what people who are warning of an encroaching government are suggesting.
They are suggesting that our unique experiment in self-rule is threatened.
But anyway, back to the beginning here.
Unfortunately, you've grown up.
Now these are college kids.
We're talking about what's the age range, 18 to 22.
1722.
I'm sure you got some 25 and 30 year olds in there, but but for the most part, the age range 18 to 22, 1722.
Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government.
Who what voices is he talking about?
No, snarkly not talking about mine.
Remember the age group now.
You've grown up.
He's talking about their parents.
He doesn't mean that they were listening to me when they were six and seven and ten and twelve and thirteen.
He's not going to acknowledge that everybody in that graduating class is a rush baby.
He's talking about their parents.
Who else could he be talking about when he says, unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices.
Now, I'm sure he also includes voices that these students have heard in the media.
But he's also has to be including their parents.
I don't think there's any escape.
Nicholas Christoph in the New York Times.
We liberals may have overstated how great health insurance is.
Yes, the left, the Democrats, some of them continue to run away from Obamacare now.
The media talking about Obama as a lame duck.
Koki Roberts says, yes, he's a lame duck, but only because of the 22nd Amendment.
Only because he can't run again.
Well, that's true of every second term.
President.
James Carville on television this weekend claimed that he listened to me analyze the gang of eight immigration program.
Said he listened to me express doubts about how this benefits Republicans.
Said he thought it made sense.
Not that he agreed with it.
And then he said that Ted Cruz is the most formidable, fearful, competent Republican on the horizon.
Now, there could be some reverse psychology strategy going on there, but we've set the table.
That's just some of what is coming up on the program.
There's also a great piece that ran in the Pittsburgh Tribune review over the weekend, uh, ran yesterday by Selena Zito.
When will America burst DC's bubble.
And it is about the real division in this country.
And it's not the division between the races.
It's not the division between the sexes.
It's not the division between the haves and have nots.
It's the division between Washington and the rest of America.
And it is brilliantly stated.
So you sit tight, ladies and gentlemen, I, America's anchor man, back with all of this and more right after this.
CBS News.com.
Everybody in the mission, the consulate, everybody there in Benghazi thought the attack on a U.S. consulate last September 11th was an act of terror from the get-go.
This, according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted with the number two official in Libya at the time, and obtained by CBS News slay the nation.
Greg Hicks, 22-year foreign service diplomat, who was the highest ranking U.S. official in Libya after the strike, told investigators under authority of the House Oversight Government Reform Committee.
I think everybody in the mission thought it was a terror attack from the beginning, he said.
Now we could beat this Benghazi stuff to death all day today if we wanted to, and I don't really intend to do that.
But this article from CBS News, and we've got some supporting audio coming up, points out four important things.
Number one, Greg Hicks, the top U.S. diplomat in Libya after Chris Stevens, who's right beneath Chris Stevens, knew from the get-go Benghazi was a terror attack.
He wasn't even in Benghazi.
Now remember the regime saying no nobody knew.
We thought it maybe it was a bunch of ruffians, uh, a bunch of ne'er do wells uh reacting to the video that was uh causing all kinds of stuff to happen in uh Cairo.
Remember that?
And this guy saying, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We knew from the beginning.
Number two, despite Hillary's claims to the contrary, he was never contacted, Greg Hicks.
I'll tell you, Hillary does not look good.
You know this.
Hillary doesn't come off well.
These are the whistleblowers.
These are the people that the regime didn't want anybody to ever hear from.
I remember all of us saying back during the time, the aftermath of Benghazi and during the campaign last year that they're going to try to put this to bed, but this is going to come back and bite them.
Because the excuses they were offering video and all this is so public about that, it was so obviously wrong.
And they were obviously trying to cover something up.
The third of the four important things in this particular story, CBS News, is that Greg Hicks says that he knew Susan Rice was lying when she appeared in those five talk shows, and he was not happy about it.
He knew she was lying when she said that all this happened because of this video.
And the fourth point that's made, according to Greg Hicks, is that Susan Rice directly contradicted the president of Libya who said Benghazi was a terror attack right before she came on.
And this led Libya to delay the FBI's access to Benghazi.
You remember Snarkley, we're all wondering, where's the FBI?
Why aren't they there?
Well, the reason is the president of Libya had been embarrassed on TV.
He was on CBS, he said it was a terror attack.
He finishes, Susan Rice comes.
No, no, no.
It wasn't a terror attack.
It was this video guy.
President of Libya said, You're gonna you're gonna call me out like that a lot.
So he he kept the FBI at bay, delayed their access to Benghazi, which hurt their investigation tremendously.
I mean, all of this is pretty damning.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Grab grab number 14.
This is Bob Schiefer's uh yesterday morning Face the Nation.
This is how he opened the show, and you will hear Libyan President Mohammed McGareth and Susan Rice in this piece.
Today, only on Face the Nation, startling new details about the Benghazi attack from the number two American official in Libya.
It's been almost eight months since the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
We'll get new details today and more insight into the stunning contradictions between the president of Libya and ambassador to the UN Susan Rice when they appeared after the attack on Face the Nation.
This has preplanned predetermined.
And we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or pre-planned.
So there you hear it.
The Libyan president pre-planned, premeditated terror attack, Susan Rice.
No, no, well, we don't have any information like that.
So they call him a liar.
Now it's Bob Bob Schiefer here, he's okay, but I must tell you something, folks.
It has to be a little insulting to whatever viewers this show has left.
And Bob Schiefer tried to treat this as breaking news that the administration and Susan Rice lied to Bob Schiefer and to everybody else's face.
The viewers of this program know different.
Everybody by now, by yesterday, long ago knew that Susan Rice had made it up.
The only question with Susan Rice was who sent her out there and why, and who gave her that story.
You know, why Susan Rice to fall on the sword, so to speak.
But Schiefer yesterday was treating this well, up until this very moment.
We thought it was the video.
Up until this very moment, we believe what Susan Rice has said.
Now this Greg Hicks guy has come forward, and we now realize that we have been lied to.
Long after everybody else paying attention.
We couldn't do this before the election, you see.
We couldn't get anywhere near this before the election.
How are you?
Welcome back.
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Back to the audio sound bites, Bob Schiefer, CBS, face the nation.
During the segment on the Benghazi attack, the host Bob Schiefer set up the segment by saying this.
What he does here is a dramatic reading of the testimony that we're going to get from Greg Hicks.
Again, who is the 22-year foreign service diplomat, number two official in Libya, right underneath underneath the ambassador.
And this is this is Schiefer.
The administration claimed the attack grew out of a spontaneous demonstration provoked by protests in Egypt.
Greg Hicks told investigators that was simply not true.
Part of what he said, Hicks, I thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go.
I think everybody in the mission thought it was a terrorist attack from the beginning.
Question.
Did you ever have any indication that there was a protest, a popular protest outside the mission in Benghazi?
Greg Hicks, no question.
And if there was such a protest, would that have been reported?
Hicks.
Absolutely.
For there to have been a demonstration on Chris Stevens' front door and him not to have reported it is unbelievable.
I'm telling you, they're blowing this thing sky high.
They're blowing it up.
Now remember what we heard.
Let's take you back.
Benghazi happens.
It's the brief timeline.
Five o'clock in the afternoon is when Washington ostensibly becomes aware.
The White House.
Obama talks to the defense secretary Leon Panetta and to Hillary.
Says, you guys deal with it however you need, and vanishes.
And nobody to this day knows what Obama was doing in the next five to eight hours.
Honestly, if somebody knows, please tell me.
I'm like anybody knows.
Earlier in the day in Cairo, if you will recall, somebody at our embassy.
Remember it's the 9-11 anniversary.
Somebody at our embassy put out an apology.
Nothing had happened.
And somebody in our embassy issued an apology.
And justification for protests that might occur against the embassy in Egypt.
Nothing had happened.
That apology came before anything had happened.
We're all sitting here saying what in the world are we apologizing for now?
Then the protests started.
And somebody attempted to get in the embassy, if you recall, and climbed over the walls.
That is what led the Obama administration to say that that protest was spawned by the video.
And that protest inspired an ad hoc protest at Benghazi.
Nothing was going to happen in Benghazi until this ad hoc, ad lib protest happened in Cairo, after we apologized.
And there was nothing.
There was nothing to apologize for, just some typical left winger in our embassy over there decided to go PC and try to stop any protest by apologizing for the United States in advance.
Honest to God, I know many of you probably forgotten this.
But that's what really got that day going.
Was somebody in our embassy apologizing, nothing had happened.
We later learned that the apology was written by some subordinate staff member in an attempt to stop any protest from taking place.
Yes, if we're just nice to them, and if we just admit that it's all our fault, and maybe they won't attack us today.
That's the thinking on these people's part.
Well, that was just an invitation.
And the mob began to attack the embassy in Cairo.
So the White House immediately distanced itself from that apology.
The first thing they did was to distance themselves from that apology, saying that it was a rogue staff member acting on her own over there.
And then they said that a video, at which time nobody ever heard of or seen, was responsible for that protest.
Then Benghazi happened, and the administration said, Hillary, Susan Ryan, everybody said the video inspired the protest in Cairo, and that inspired an ad-lib protest at Benghazi.
Now, what we know is that what happened in Benghazi had nothing to do with what happened in Cairo.
We had a planned premeditated terror attack in Benghazi, four Americans killed, including the ambassador.
For weeks after the administration continued to try to blame the video.
Some video that nobody had seen.
The filmmaker, by the way, that video is still in jail somewhere in California.
Hillary and Obama cut public service announcement type commercials that ran on Pakistan TV, apologizing for the United States and that video and claiming that all of this protest activity had nothing to do with anything other than that video.
None of that was true.
Bob Schiefer, ABC NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, you name it, all ran with the video story.
For weeks.
And now the number two man is coming forth and saying none of that is true.
That's what this is all about.
And Bob Schiefer thinks he's got an exclusive here because Hicks' testimony was leaked to them first, his upcoming testimonies.
All of this that is being reported yesterday and today in The drive-by media was known before the election, folks.
All of it was.
So Obama gets re-elected under false pretenses under a timeline story that's made up.
Remember how we were called racists and sexists for complaining about Susan Rice's lies.
The only reason anybody was disagreeing with her, because she's black.
Yep, we were racist.
And the woman, and we were sexist.
And the mainstream media even said that people challenging the veracity and honesty of Susan Rice.
This is just the GOP's war on women.
That's all it was, they said.
And make sure we remember here, Obama was only talking to Panetta because they had a previously scheduled meeting at five o'clock.
It wasn't even Benghazi that forced the meeting.
Obama was scheduled to meet with Pennett at 5 o'clock anyway.
Benghazi just happened to come up at the end of that meeting.
Obama never even had a meeting devoted to Benghazi.
Who was the person most attacked in the days after the Benghazi attack?
Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney was the person most attacked in the media after Benghazi because he dared issue a statement after the protests in Cairo.
He dared act presidential during the campaign, and the media launched into him as creating problems for America.
It's not his role to speak out, it's not his responsibility.
He shouldn't be doing it, he should shut up.
Mitt Romney was portrayed as an absolute irresponsible idiot for jumping to conclusions.
Now, all of what Bob Schiefer reported yesterday was known back then.
It was all covered up by an administration that every American media outlet was loyal to and duly invested to report.
Next up on CBS Slay the Nation during the segment on the Benghazi attacks, and after reading what Susan Rice had said about the attacks at the response to a video, Bob Schiefer then read what Greg Hicks told investigators about her remarks.
My jaw hit the floor as I watched this.
I've never been as embarrassed in my life in my career as on that day.
I never reported a demonstration.
I reported an attack on the consulant.
Chris's last report, if you want to say his final report is, Greg, we are underattacked.
It is jaw-dropping, that to me, how that came to be.
I was personally known to one of Ambassador Rice's staff members.
I could have been called.
And you know, the phone call could have been, hey, Greg, Ambassador Rice is going to say blah, blah, blah.
I could have said, no, that's not the right thing.
The phone call was never made.
Imagine that.
The phone call to correct what Susan Rice was going to say was never made because they didn't want her saying anything other than what she said, that it was an ad hoc, ad-libbed, totally instantaneous protest, not a terror attack, brought about by this unseemly anti-Muslim video.
Again, which nobody had seen.
Now let's move to Fox News Sunday yesterday.
Chris Wallace is interviewing Stephen Lynch, a member of Congress, Massachusetts, during a discussion about the Benghazi attacks and how they were represented in the public.
Chris Wallace said, how do you explain the fact that that Sunday the Ambassador Rice came on this show and four other Sunday shows and never mentioned Al-Qaeda extremists, and had been scrubbed from the talking points, but did mention a reaction to the anti-Islam video, which had never been in any of the talking points.
Well, it was scrubbed.
It was totally inaccurate.
You're absolutely right.
There's no excuse for that.
It was false information.
What they try to do is harmonize what happened in Benghazi with what happened everywhere else across the Middle East.
Stephen Lynch, a Democrat from Massachusetts, admitting that the correct things were scrubbed from Susan Rice's prepared text for her Sunday appearances and the videos substituted.
Admitting it.
And he also admits what they tried to do is harmonize what happened in Benghazi, what happened everywhere else across the Middle East.
What that means is they tried to link what happened in Benghazi to these ad hoc instantaneous protests in Cairo, brought about by the video.
This whole thing was just a mountain of one lie built on another.
And it was all done to upset or to not upset any electoral poll data.
And they made sure to jump all over Romney.
Romney was the guy most criticized in the American media after the Benghazi had Mitt Romney had nothing to do with it.
At all.
He just issued a presidential statement about it.
He objected to this mindless, senseless apology for nothing that came out of our embassy in Cairo.
One more thing here, Darrell Issa this morning on Fox America's newsroom, Bill Hammer talked to Isa.
He's going to be running the hearings on this.
And Hammer said based on what you know then, how damaging is all of this to Hillary?
It's damaging because it happened on her watch.
I think the important thing is that Hillary Clinton is no longer a Secretary of State, but there are many people still at State Department who were involved in this at the highest levels who continue to keep their jobs and keep this symbol of the war is over, terror is is behind us.
We know in Boston, we know in uh Syria, we know every day for the survivors, if you will, from Benghazi, that that just simply isn't true.
And besides, it's eight months ago, what does it matter now?
What difference does it make?
That's the administration line now.
What difference does it make?
Stephen Hayes, the Weekly Standards written up a very detailed report on the timeline of how the talking points were scrubbed based on State Department and other administration emails and records.
I got that here in the stack too.
But I have to take a brief time out now.
So sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
That's the truth each and every busy broadcast day.
And we go to the phones, we're going to start a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with Gary.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
It's an honor, sir.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Appreciate that very much.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Quick question for you.
How can the State Department not tell the difference between a simple protest and a terror attack?
And that's question A. Question B is how can I trust them in national security?
Let me ask you a question out there, Gare.
Do you actually think the State Department cannot tell the difference between a terrorist attack and a harmless protest?
Oh, they absolutely can.
That was more of a setup question.
Yeah, you're being a good question.
It was just a fabrication.
Of course they could tell the difference.
You have to remember now, at the time this happened, Al-Qaeda was on the run.
Obama was king of the drones.
We're wiping out all of our enemies.
We'd killed bin Laden.
Every in fact.
Nobody stopped to think that maybe killing bin Laden and running around bragging about it as Obama did might stir something up on September 11th somewhere.
And it did.
Wasn't a video.
At any rate, the State Department knows full well the difference between a simple, harmless protest and a terror attack.
This was in September.
We are beginning the intense portion of the presidential campaign.
The president wants the low information voting public to realize that terrorism has been dealt with.
There isn't anymore.
Fort Hood, eh, just uh workplace uh thing.
Fort Dixon, I don't know, just some rampant bad actors, random bad actors.
Terrorism was finished.
Obama Had killed Osama.
And the Democrats all said that the war on terror can never end until Osama's dead.
Well, they killed Osama, and they kept talking about it.
So the image put forth was that there was no terror.
You can't then turn around and admit that you've got a terror attack going on.
That would not, even low information voters may say, wait a minute, you told us that Al Qaeda's dead, they've been dealt with, that they're on the run, and here they are again.
So I have to make something up.
They clearly know the difference between a terror attack and a and a simple, harmless protest.
But your next question, how can we trust them to deal with anything?
This is my point.
I I practically beg people to understand when looking at what the Democrat Party does, and everything they control, State Department in this case, everything is political.
Everything is tied to an agenda.
It's their agenda and their party first.
And you have to look at them that way.
So it's not a question of trusting the state to trust them to deal with anything.
You have to learn to interpret the Democrat Party as moving their political agenda forward with every instance that happens in life back after this.
I got one more thing on Benghazi.
We come back and we move on.
It is that Mark Thompson, a former Marine, now the deputy coordinator for the State Department's counter-terrorism bureau, is saying that Hillary Clinton bypassed her own counter-terrorism people.
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