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Harris Defended Child Predators? - August 29th, Hour 2
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The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon, well, nothing.
Only smoke and mirrors.
Is it now the position of the Democrats that they favored the border wall?
Well, you can ask the Harris campaign about that end.
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It's Peter Schweitzer, and that is Eric Eggers.
And we are filling in for Sean today.
We have a podcast called The Drill Down.
You can find it at thedrilldown.com.
I write books.
Eric writes books.
And we are investigators.
We expose stories that nobody else wants to talk about.
We were the first to expose the Biden family's corruption schemes, the first to expose the Clintons and Clinton Cash, insider trading on the stock market, you name it.
And of course, there's plenty of fertile ground because the media doesn't want to cover these stories.
And it's as true back then as it is now with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Man, we're really quite productive.
It's impressive, really.
The number of things we've done in the last decade plus.
He is Peter Schwartz.
And as he noted, he has been one of the leading voices that's exposed the corruption at the highest levels of the federal government.
We broke the Hunter Biden story some six years ago.
And of course, only now are they admitting that, okay, you're right about that.
Yes, we're willing to admit the Biden administration's DOJ says, okay, Hunter Biden might have been acting as a foreign asset and collecting money and trying to influence U.S. policy.
You got us.
And what we're afraid of is that it's happening again with Kamala Harris.
You know, you heard in the intro, I think it's 63 days until the presidential election.
It has been almost that long since we've heard a journalist ask Kamala Harris a question.
And the last hour we played the clip from the last time we heard a journalist ask a non-scripted question, Anderson Cooper on the heels of the disastrous debate said, wait a minute, what's going on with Joe Biden?
And we heard Kamala Harris say, well, he's actually quite strong.
And that proved, like what they said about Hunter Biden, to not be true.
And so tonight we're excited because CNN's Dana Bash, even though it's pre-recorded and even though Tim Moss is going to be there, we'll ask her some challenging questions, we think.
We hope, but we doubt it.
But we doubt it.
So that's why we're going to talk to you about what they should be asking you because there is a number of scandals that Kamala Harris isn't just adjacent to, but central in from her time in California.
And we've written about this four years ago, but it's largely been ignored.
And actually, in one of the few pieces of media that featured Kamala Harris that her campaign released, it included this interview that she and Tim Waltz conducted with each other.
And it's interesting because they're acting like they're all buddy-buddy, which is, if you look at the staff turnover when Kamala Harris was vice president, suggests that she isn't really buddy-buddy with that many people.
90% of the staff that joined her vice presidential office left by the time that it was March of this year.
But one of the things that she said, she's touting her track record as a prosecutor.
And it caught our eye and our ear because it kind of runs in the face of the reporting that we've done before.
Listen to what Kamala Harris said in her discussion with Tim Waltz.
So that's why I decided I want to be a prosecutor.
And as a prosecutor, I prosecuted homicide cases.
I prosecuted a number of different types of cases, but I specialized in child sexual assault cases.
And one of the things I did was create a whole unit dedicated to focusing on children who are being abused and to ensure that they have dignity in the process and justice.
There's so much work that we still have to do to make sure that children have a voice.
Yeah, this is remarkable on so many levels because she's repeated this over and over again.
And it's one of her claims about her legal career that just is completely, totally wrong.
In fact, she was involved deeply in the cover-up of these scandals in San Francisco.
And so we're going to take just a couple of minutes, walk through this.
Some of it's going to sound like history, but it's not because it's so important to completely understand what she's saying and why she's being fundamentally dishonest and lying about her record when it comes to these very serious crimes.
And the stakes couldn't be higher because what you just heard in that clip is her position herself as Kamala Harris, defender of innocent children.
Right.
When in fact, she's actually Kamala Harris, kind of cover-upperer for abusers of people who have abused children.
Yeah.
So let's go back to 2003.
The job that she is running for is the San Francisco district attorney.
It's held by a guy named Terrence Hallinen.
He's kind of a progressive former boxer.
They call him TKO Hallinen was his name.
And he was investigating and prosecuting cases in this area.
He had gotten hold of internal documents from various Catholic organizations that reportedly contain the names of 40 current and former priests in San Francisco who had been identified in sexual abuse complaints.
These are internal church documents.
Which remember, there was a national scandal with the Catholic Church and sex scandals.
And many cities across the country were prosecuting the Catholic Church with allegations like this.
Yeah, and we're going to get to how San Francisco and her tenure stands out.
But so they've got these documents, and Hallinan is saying we're going to prosecute these cases in San Mateo and Marin County, which are right next door to San Francisco.
They use these same records to charge a father Gregory Ingalls back in 2003.
And so the 2003 campaign is starting up, and what starts to happen?
Well, Kamala Harris is getting the support of Willie Brown.
We'll talk about that in a little bit.
But she's also banking money.
from law firms and from people connected to these Catholic church institutions in the Bay Area.
So the lawyer that's representing the church on a variety of matters donated the maximum.
So did his law firm.
Another law firm, which handled legal matters for Catholic charities, donated the maximum allowed.
They'd only donated to two other candidates in their history for a total of $650.
A third law firm that also represented the church was actually representing a San Francisco priest at the time that was being prosecuted by Terrence Hallinan, the current, and they donated the maximum as well.
So Kamala Harris comes in, she beats Terrence Hallinan.
What does she do?
She deep sixes all of this.
Those records, those priestly abuse records are disappeared.
The victims groups there are outraged because they wanted the documents released with the information on the victims redacted and they wanted them prosecuted.
And here is the ugly fact about Kamala Harris.
During her decade and a half tenure as a chief prosecutor in San Francisco and as California Attorney General, she did not prosecute a single case of priestly abuse.
During her tenure, when she was the San Francisco district attorney, San Francisco is the only city of the top 50 in America that did not prosecute a single case of abuse.
That's her record.
Isn't it insane the way that they say the opposite of the thing that's true?
It is.
Like she touts in this video her track record as someone who prosecuted people who performed these terrible acts against children.
In fact, she not only covered it up by not charging anybody, but the lack of releasing the documents is, I think, one of the more damning aspects of that because there were other people that wanted access to that for lots of other reasons and they didn't release those documents.
But it's not just that.
We referenced the Hunter Biden stuff earlier.
But, you know, it's like Mark Zuckerberg has this week admitted that, okay, yeah, we probably shouldn't have demoted that story because the FBI and DOJ said it might be Russian disinformation.
We now know not only was it true, but Hunter Biden actually took money from Russia.
Donald Trump wasn't the one working with the Russians.
It was, in fact, the Bidens.
I mean, they always lie about the opposite of what's actually true.
Yeah.
I mean, it's remarkable.
And the media doesn't challenge them on it.
In this case, we were just talking about, Kamala Harris, when she was pressed on this, when she was the San Francisco district attorney, she said, well, we're hiding the records to protect the victims.
Now, I can't give the full quote of what the victims group said, but Joey Piscatelli of the Survivors Network said the disappearance of the records to protect the victims, he says they're full of.
Yeah, that's why you can't give the quote.
Yeah, yeah.
For FCC license purposes.
Yeah, he says, you can quote me on that.
They're not protecting the victims.
This was a massive cover.
Do you think she's ever been asked about this?
Was she asked about this when she ran for the U.S. Senate in California?
No.
Was she asked when she ran for president in 2020?
No.
When she was a vice presidential candidate in 2020, no.
She's now running for president.
You think she's going to be asked about it now, challenged on this lie?
No.
Yeah, we talked about in the last hour that there's now reporting that there's some questions being raised.
Kamala Harris has said she's worked at McDonald's as a younger person.
There's no evidence of that.
In fact, there's evidence that she didn't because she didn't list it on her comprehensive employment history.
You've got that.
You've got the fact that actually when she ran for prosecutor in 2003, her campaign literature said she prosecuted hundreds of cases.
And then she was asked in a debate, well, how many cases have you actually prosecuted?
She says, 50?
But it's about leadership.
But that's the thing is, she is continuously misled about what her track record was.
And now she has selected as a man as her running mate, Tim Waltz, who will be with her during the CNN debate, who has the same issue.
Yeah, he has the same issue of not telling the truth.
And, you know, people will say, and it's true, politicians lie.
They do lie.
They lie all the time.
It's true.
But the problem is lies can have consequences.
We're not talking about just somebody embellishing their record.
We're actually talking about affecting the policies and the decisions that they make.
And when you look at Kamala Harris and you look at her record going back to San Francisco to the present, her rise to political power has been about cover-up, it's been about cronyism, and it's been about corruption.
And we're now told that she is the joy candidate, which actually makes me want to call you the joy killer because you keep talking so negatively.
You know, we're just trying to sit here and bask in the joy.
And it's really funny because if you look at the YouTube comments of the video that the campaign released with her and Tim Wallace, when they talk about, oh, but Bruce Springsteen guy, oh, that's so relatable.
They're like, man, the chemistry between these two is so elite.
But when you, what's actually true is all the reporting, and we referenced a book in the last hour that came out that said, no, Kamala Harris has significant problems.
You know, we're being told that she's Obama 2.0.
She's actually not.
She's got 90% staff turnover.
In the Atlantic's article, they featured a quote that said, people really, really do not want to work for Kamala Harris.
They said they basically propped up the body of Joe Biden to keep Kamala Harris from becoming a viable presidential candidate.
So, I mean, we're told one thing.
The reality is another.
And we'll see how much, if any, of that is revealed in this interview this evening.
Yeah, I mean, so Open the Books, which is a great organization.
They file FOIA requests.
They get access to government documents.
They lost their president, by the way, Adam Angieski, who's just a wonderful guy.
Terrific guy has been a guest on our podcast.
Yes, passed away at a young age.
He was in his early 50s, a huge loss.
The organization, I know, has lost an immense talent there, but I know they're going to continue forward.
Earlier this year, they pulled the records, the employment records, on the staffers that worked for Kamala Harris.
She has 47 staffers.
And of those 47 staffers that joined her in January of 2021, how many do you think actually stayed those entire three years?
I know that 24 of them left within the 12-month period leading up to that point.
Four.
Only four.
Every four.
That's like a 90% turnover rate.
And, you know, there are all kinds of stories about the Atlantic reference, the top-to-bottom dysfunction in her office.
This is the sort of previous iteration.
Now all of that has morphed into the candidate of joy.
And she's just happy and she's fun and she's friendly.
She's putting the fun into dysfunction.
To me, it's an example.
And the media is going along with this.
Nobody's mentioning this, the body count of people that are behind her that left her because they couldn't take working with her.
Yeah, it just speaks to what do you actually know about Kamala Harris, not only her tenure as vice president, but what led to that.
And the answer is very little.
And that's part of the strategy they've employed successfully.
That's one of the reasons why they've avoided media interviews.
We'll see how much of that changes this evening.
But we are interested in hearing what you're looking for.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, everybody, it's Eric Eggers and Peter Schweitzer coming to you live from the Magic Broadcasting Studios in the free state of Florida.
We're filling in for Sean Hannity today.
So excited to be doing it.
We've been talking about the things that you don't yet know about Kamala Harris, but you should.
And Peter Schweitzer just gave you a long lesson about her tracked record of corruption and cronyism and basically a scandal-plagued career.
Yeah, and there's going to be more to come.
We're going to take a call right now.
Let's go to a gym, I think, in North Carolina.
Jim, are you there?
Thanks for Tennessee.
Sorry.
Peter.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
Real quick, I know you got a full boat.
I'm curious to know Kamala Harris's stance on the vaccine mandate, how it affected our service members, our armed forces.
People lost their livelihoods, their way to how to provide for their families.
And to only exacerbate it, what about you have huge amounts of border crossings?
Are they mandated to get vaccinations?
Yeah, the answer is no.
Yeah, no.
I mean, it's a great question.
And here's the problem.
I mean, and again, we're talking about the lies.
One of the themes of the Democratic Convention, Tim Wall said it, is freedom.
We're the policy, the party of freedom.
Actually, they're not.
And the vaccine mandates are a prime example of that.
They're going to continue to lie and obfuscate about it.
But I think people are starting to wake up to some of these truths, especially people that have loved ones that were put in this position of being forced to take it and then saying, no, I don't want to throw my hands of my health in somebody's hands.
I'm going to take these steps and control my own destiny.
Well, just check your white male privilege at the door there, Schweitzer, because people experience privilege in different ways and people experience freedom in different ways.
And for some people, it's going out and living your life and choosing what goes into your body.
And for other people, it's being told to sit in your house, when to wear your mask, and when the government's allowed to give you shot number 17.
Yeah.
No, but it's another national scandal.
I mean, that's the thing is they become so brazen about the lies they tell us about what it means.
You know, the first time we did this was in December of 2021 when we went to New York to fill in for Sean.
And we saw New York was this dystopian hellscape under all these COVID lockdowns.
Guess where else wasn't great during COVID?
Tim Waltz is Minnesota and Kamala Harris is California.
Yeah, exactly.
And in fact, there's videos of people complaining about the lockdowns in Minnesota.
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Hello, America.
It's Peter Schweitzer.
That is Eric Eggers, and we are filling in for Sean.
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Sean, we have a special guest here.
Very excited to have her, and that is Susan Crabtree.
She is a political correspondent for Real Clear Politics.
And I have admired Susan's work for a long time.
She's an old school journalist in the sense that she digs and she finds stories that nobody else has.
And she has been absolutely killing it in her coverage on the Secret Service, the cover-up and the scandal, and where we're going next.
So, Susan, are you there?
Yes, I am.
Thanks so much for having me, Peter.
Great to be with you.
Great to be with you.
So, tell us what the state of play is now, because I have to say, you know, we obviously have unfortunately had, you know, violent crimes that have happened in this country.
We've had school shootings.
And there always seems to be a real concerted effort by law enforcement, whether it's the FBI or local police, to come out and explain what they know, explain it as soon as possible.
It seems like with the Secret Service and the FBI, which is leading the investigation, it's been the opposite.
I mean, it's been a desert of information, which of course leads to all these speculations about what's going on.
Why do you think that is their approach to this?
It is their approach.
Unfortunately, we had the first briefing, real briefing from the FBI yesterday since the day of the assassination attempt, which they were actually lying about whether they had the name of Thomas Crooks or not.
Yet they did have the name because certain sources were giving it to me from those corners.
So it's a culture of deception that is not working in their favor.
That can work for the Secret Service, and I've been covering them for 12 years.
I actually had an incident in 2014 that they were lying to me, the comms director, Ed Donovan, the director at the time, the First Woman Director, Julia Pearson.
They were lying about a story I broke about an incident of President Obama being in an elevator with a man with a gun who wasn't certified to have the gun, that wasn't background clear to have the gun.
This is an egregious failure on the part of the Secret Service.
I was given that story.
They lied to me that that was true or not.
I said, I'm going to go with my sources because they're impeccable.
Went with my sources.
Turns out, yes, I was right.
And Julia Pearson was lying to President Obama and DH Secretary, DHS Secretary Jay Johnson, too.
So they got fired over that incident.
So when you talk to me about the Secret Service's responses to me and others and through this culture of deception, they've carried this on and they haven't been called out for it from the press and the public for years.
I mean, they've been lying to me for 12 years.
And so now they need to clean up their act in order to build credibility with the American public, but that's not how they handled this particular assassination attempt.
And now the public is outraged.
Even their rank and file are outraged.
And I'm hoping that Congress provides enough oversight.
We cannot count on it from the FBI to find out what we cannot count on it from a compromised FBI, politically motivated, partisan FBI that we've seen so many times over and over again, their failures to provide any type of transparency to Congress, redacted information to Congress.
Even though they have the security clearances on the Intelligence Committee and other committees to have that information, they redact information from Congress.
I mean, we can go on and on, but I think that answers your question.
They need to turn the page and build trust with both journalists and the American public.
And I'm still waiting for that to happen.
Yeah, and if they did, that would be a 100-degree, 180-degree difference from the direction things have been moving.
I mean, the phrase you've used, culture of deception, is incredibly powerful and incredibly alarming.
We had on our podcast a few weeks ago, Gerald Posner, who wrote the book, Case Closed, and he didn't deep dive, used 623 pages in his book to say that there was no conspiracy as it related to the JFK assassination.
He said on our podcast, he cannot say the same thing about the Trump assassination because partly the lack of information that's been released, I think partly because of the culture of deception that you just referenced.
And it seems like, you know, we did an analysis.
Every time there's some kind of a big picture shooting, you see press releases, you see press conferences all the time.
What you just said about the FBI holding their first press availability since the shooting of Donald Trump suggests that there's a lot of questions that still need answered that haven't been.
What do you think we don't know yet about the shooting that we should?
Well, we don't know what I would like to know, and I didn't get my questions answered because they don't want to answer my questions.
They're not sitting down.
I was not the first person they chose to sit down with.
They chose to sit down with an ABC News reporter, Cheetah, the former director.
That was her ABC News reporter I've never seen on the beat before.
Not even the Washington Post reporter who has a pulitor for covering the Secret Service.
They did not choose her.
So it's not biased.
It's not partisan bias.
It's just they want to go with people that are friendly to them.
Well, you saying there's a culture of deception is probably not going to get you to the front of the line.
That's just some free career advice.
I'm representing the rank and file here.
I have covered so many retaliation cases that the Secret Service, if you whistleblow, you get retaliated against.
Yes, I am biased towards the rank and file.
I will, you know, guilty as charge on that account.
I will listen to what they have to say, but they're not building trust with me.
I thought they were a week ago, and then not so much anymore.
So your question, what exactly was your question?
Again, you were trying to say.
Yeah, what don't we know, right?
I mean, what don't we know?
What's the largest question that remains unanswered, that the fact that they've only had one press availability since the shooting?
And just for context, we did an analysis.
After January 6th, the FBI released 33 press releases.
They've had zero since this assassination shooting.
They say yesterday that they don't believe that he was involved with a foreign entity.
They don't believe that there was anyone else.
He was a single alone shooter.
What I want to know is what was his travel like?
Did he travel to New York?
Did he travel outside the country?
What are these three apps, these encrypted apps that he has on his phone?
What type of apps are they?
They said they're foreign-based to ask, you know, they're not Signal or ProtonMail, which, you know, we usually rake regularly.
Anybody in journalism and anybody trying to do covert activity uses these apps regularly.
Why go outside those known U.S.-based apps?
We haven't heard anything about it, just that they're foreign-based.
The problem I see is there was this threat, very tangible threat by Iran.
And we know that the Iranian threat has existed since Donald Trump decided to kill, bomb General Soleimani, the Iranian, the right-hand man of Khomeini, the top religious leader, in January 3rd, 2020.
We know that threat existed towards, and they have Secret Service protection and diplomatic security protection.
Pompeo has it.
John Bolton, in fact, they thwarted an attempt to assassinate John Bolton, the FBI did.
So now we know there's other people that don't have it.
Robert O'Brien, the National Security Advisor after Bolton, did not get Secret Service protection.
Had it, and then they removed it a year ago, and he is very upset about that, and members of Congress, Mike Turner, the chairman of the intelligence committee.
So, we know this threat exists.
We all know it became extremely tangible threat the week before the rally, and that that message was conveyed to the Secret Service, and that's the only reason why they got a counter-sniper team.
That was the first time Donald Trump got a counter-sniper team at any of his events.
And so, on the Friday beforehand, the FBI arrests this man, a Pakistani individual, 46-year-old, with ties to Iran.
He had just traveled to Iran for two weeks.
But the FBI wants us to believe that Homest Crookes, they don't believe he has any foreign ties.
Well, tell me where he traveled, because this particular individual, his last name is Merchant, he's Pakistani, he had been to Iran two weeks prior.
He goes to New York, he comes through Texas, then goes to New York, and he is trying to pay, trying to recruit Hitman and pay them, and it ended up being an FBI person that he was trying to recruit.
So, this is this, they arrested him the day before the Butler rally, but we're supposed to just ignore that fact.
Yeah, supposed to ignore a crazy 2022 incident.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know about that, the Pakistani.
So, we can talk about that too.
Yeah, I know.
We're talking to Susan Crabtree.
She's a political correspondent for Real Clear Politics.
She knows the Secret Service pretty much better than anyone.
Yeah, I want you to talk about that 2022 incident, but also, and this may be very, very speculative, so you can answer it briefly if you want.
But are we entering, we've seen how law enforcement and the courts have been politicized.
Are we actually entering a period in America where security protection for elected and public officials is now being manipulated or determined by your political affiliation?
Are we actually reaching a place like that?
Because it seems like Robert O'Brien's not getting it.
You have had sources that have raised questions about the lack of security around Trump.
Are we actually entering an era where depending on what your political views are is going to determine how much political protection or actual security protection you're going to get?
Well, that is the critical question, and I don't want to believe that, but there are signs that that is occurring because it stretches credulity to think that they were going to treat Donald Trump, who attracts tens of thousands of people at his rally like a former president.
And that was the excuse that they used for not giving him any counter sniper until this particular event.
Why would he not break the mold?
You cannot treat him like Jimmy Carter.
You cannot even treat him like President Obama, who usually former presidents, their profiles decrease.
So, the threat level theoretically decreases as they do their swan song and go off into the sun, right off into the sunset.
But that's the opposite is true for former President Trump.
We haven't seen in modern American history a former president run for reelection.
We don't have a former president with this type of Iranian threat because of the bombing of Solemn.
His national security team, most of them, except for Robert O'Brien, who endorsed him a year ago and then lost his security clearance.
It's Secret Service detail, strangely enough, the timing of that is very odd to me.
You know, all these people are still getting Secret Service production because of this Iranian threat.
So, I just don't understand how we can say it's not the Wicked Motivated when Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
also, despite the history of his uncle and His father being assassinated, they don't afford him any.
He has to pay his own.
So he certainly believes it's political, and he has said so.
And then they cut him off the day he endorsed Donald Trump.
Now, that's according to, I'm told, that the executive, the executive order that Biden puts out in order to provide someone secret service had that date.
If you suspend, then you will lose your Secret Service.
Certainly, the Secret Service is stretched beyond imagination at this point.
We have the UN General Assembly coming up too, and I'm hearing that they are hundreds of agents short to protect that event.
I'm breaking that news on this show right now.
All you do is break news, Susan.
It's amazing.
We have 30 seconds left, and we're talking to Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics.
She's been the leading voice on the assassination attempt and all the related stories.
What do you say to people in 30 seconds or less who think that part of the reason we haven't seen as much news out of the FBI or out of the Secret Service is there's a belief that reminding people that there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump is politically beneficial to Donald Trump.
Well, I don't think that that's coming from the Secret Service.
I think that's coming from the mainstream media.
And, you know, they are in a coronation mode.
I've never heard, I've never seen something like this in my life.
The White House Press Corps, and I was a part of it for many years.
Turn their back on Kamala Harris.
They do not give her the time of day.
All of a sudden, she's coordinated.
They ditched Joe Biden, and they want that to be the focus, obviously.
And I think that's driving it more than anything.
The Secret Service wants playing its old game of not talking, hiding behind the secret and the Secret Service name.
And the FBI has no interest in really, they're supposed to be providing transparency, but they want to go about their investigation without providing transparency.
I think it's more just media's fault that we're seeing the shift to the coordination of Kamala.
Yeah, we'll leave it there.
Susan Crabtree, excellent as always.
You can find her stuff at realclepolitics.com.
We'll be right back.
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