Day 293.6 McMahon Silverscript

Day 293.6 McMahon Silverscript

Day 293.6 Meet Michael McMahon, FBI Special Agent and Vetting Whistleblower Aug 10 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_yJNQNH9o SilverScript

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good afternoon everyone you're at Bryant
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Park again here in beautiful New York
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City they have concerts looks like
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Thursday Friday and Saturday I think
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maybe Sunday even as well one of my
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favorite spots one of the favorite spots
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of Mark Twain of all people 42nd and
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sixth Avenue alright and Avenue of the
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Americas but if you want to say it of
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course when you come to New York always
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go visit the New York Public Library one
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of the things I asked about before I got
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in a train to go see my son I haven't
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seen him in such a long time and it's
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always funny to see your son in a
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doctor's outfit in your life another
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thing same kid that I diaper I'm sure up
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dying hates me but yeah just hearing
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about all the
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but he's quite a good doctor and anyway
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Michael McMahon Michael McMahon
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one of the great things about this job
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somebody fox business stopped me and
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then interviewed me in Times Square
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today and it was Fox famous Maria
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Bartiromo hears a sharp shout out
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different Maria Bartiromo I didn't she
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broke the law brothers story really that
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made the mainstream media Luke a rosy
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act of course had that story with with
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the print media with Daily Caller but
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Maria Bartiromo at Fox Business was
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really the first one who broke it
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and television anyway the person asked
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me to question what job do you think you
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would like the most and I said the job
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where you do exactly what you want to do
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and and what does that mean you well
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it's telling the truth this is what job
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you what would be the worst
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consideration and getting a job and I
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said well doing what other people think
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you want you want you to do and being
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true to yourself looking inside your
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heart and doing what you think you do
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best so a lot of all my decisions are
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made that way I would have said that as
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an answer if I didn't believe that so
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that one of those times was no
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conversation I just had right over here
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two minutes ago
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with Michael McMahon he's now he's in
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California but he was a special agent
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with the FBI in Virginia now it's an
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undisclosed location that he was in in
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charge of but he was in charge of OPM
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OPM is the Office of Personnel
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Management and he was in charge his unit
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his unit was in charge in the Virginia
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area same place he Awan czar this is
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before he left since then because of
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being a whistleblower
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but the reason why he left was because
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he said there was six hundred sixty
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thousand checks that had been just
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processed through because they were paid
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on volume not on quality they were paid
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on quantity not on quality so I had to
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know more about this story I had to talk
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to him more about that and explain and
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find out how are you only at the AIB at
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the FBI a year how did you get so high
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up gs-15 you got promoted seven months
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in but I said I started as a gs-13 I had
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a stellar record in Iraq in excuse me at
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CENTCOM I believe was a Rob he's a Navy
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officer I had an outstanding career as a
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navy officer serving our country and he
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came in and he said hey you've got a
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problem here there's two parts to
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betting one service is called name check
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this is the type of thing that I tweeted
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out right before I got on the train up
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to to the Bronx this is the the easy
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step where that someone has multiple
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Social Security numbers multiple if they
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were committed crimes multiple offender
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IDs where they're trying to keep their
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their ID secret and so forth that's one
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part of the service here an name check
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so just name check is what it is a name
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check and he said basically why do name
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check if you're not really checking why
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even use the verb check if you're not
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checking you're not checking obviously
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they were not checking because the
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Ilan's got through and they were not
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checking and you should be checking year
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after year okay
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and he said ninety-eight ninety-nine
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percent of the people that work for the
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government go through this OPM so there
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is some kind of checking and as you go
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higher and higher obviously there's more
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and more involved FBI checking so he has
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gone to Congress he wrote a letter to
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Grassley they brought him in front of
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the I believe it was a Judiciary
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Committee in the Senate had three hour
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testimony
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it was kind of a here he comes there he
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goes story you know well we wrote our
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letter we're signing off now betting is
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a problem this has to go out to the
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President of the United States because
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here is a man who also is a badge of
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honor who also had Mike Boyce said this
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cannot go on
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what's in these emails of these 50
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Chiefs that what they saw this cannot go
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on this is not the way we run things in
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the United States of America this is an
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FBI guy that said that now of course
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what do you think happened immediately
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everyone started treating him like dirt
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when he was a whistleblower even though
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we were supposed to put in a stronger
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whistle protect protection act we really
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didn't and he was basically drummed out
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of the service for standing up for what
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he believed in was a very serious
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national security risk so again I can't
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do what other people want me to do I
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can't I gotta be myself if I start
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trying to be somebody I'm not it's just
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not gonna work I have to be me
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if something bothers me whether you
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whether that's a good thing or a bad
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thing I have to say it I have to say it
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straight to the people to the American
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people straight to the to the world and
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let the chips fall where they may and
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that is exactly what Michael McMahon did
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he did not care about promotion or
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anything else other than security of the
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United States of America if Mike I can
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tell already 20 minutes of speaking
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would like a man if he would have been
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on at the switch and to help there wants
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would have never happened
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there's no doubt in my mind the Awan
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thing would be something that's
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completely the Unitas
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now I don't think p-tech would have
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happened either I don't think a
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Pakistani firm with given the exclusive
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rights to giving out these exclusive
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contracts
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with these blackberries you can take
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over and make a deal here's the secret
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secure blackberry that Anthony Weiner's
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trusted staff configured over there in
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the corner for most of our contracts are
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GSA contracts we'll do it above board
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we'll have open bidding everyone will
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compete they will stay up late at night
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doing proposals like I used to do as a
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sales guy but for our special group for
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our fate of Lakeland you know you may as
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well call it you know pay to blackberry
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will give you a blackberry you can if
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you get in on the bid as a token almost
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all senses that's a kind of a almost
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like a pay-to-play token these
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blackberries p-tech Lori found in two
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minutes boom
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I forget I'm away from my laptop Lori
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found it in two minutes
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P Tech is the company we're coming back
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to it because this is going to as I said
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before as these strings start coming
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apart and it just keeps bringing more
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and more
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Jack Lou ed p-tech coming at you pro you
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left too many footprints too many
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footprints we're gonna have expert
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witnesses coming forward I've had
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several calls on the lawsuit already
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today several attorneys already saying
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let's do this thing
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let's really go after JTTF it's way
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worse than you think it is
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you know everybody coming back at me
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going it is the OD it's not like the OD
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it's not influenced by DoD it's maybe
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Michael's not a special agent I have not
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even had a chance to vent Michael right
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other than 20 different people better oh
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oh that was Michael say that he was way
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high up not a special agent okay not an
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SAIC I apologize she was not doing a
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little office he ran OPM I love this
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thanks Michael so online journalism I
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like correction that's not I don't need
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to issue a retraction I just need to
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blush and say
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yes he was way high up used a gs-15 so
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people in the government certainly with
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them so we're gonna get to know Michael
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over time and I also want in-depth way
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interview the kind of interviews that
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Jason Goodman does or he really asked
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those great questions I mean I saw just
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just a plug Jason for a little bit I saw
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some incredible interviewing techniques
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that Jason just never got a chance to
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show too much because of so much stuff
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going on and so much news has been so
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much running around and when you see
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this Lionel interview I've been watching
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it you know a day to day we've been you
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know 20 hours a day literally for the
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last whatever three months when you see
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this interview when it comes out I know
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he hates me to put pressure on it's it's
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gets a great interview and you're going
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to have other interviews like that
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coming out for Charles or tell and
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you're gonna have out of the interviews
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like that I hope it's gonna do my
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interview my second because I want that
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brave men out there
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so anyway Lori thank you you're just I
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mean I am dirt compared to Lori she's
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the brains she's just a sprain right
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it's right back here and she says it
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kind of reminds me of that broadcast
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news was way of heard and then somebody
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was saying
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the x-15 you know afterburners have been
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known to go out it's bad weather
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situations you know that he was getting
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the air pieces he say so that's all for
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right now I want you to get to know a
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Michael McMahon he tweeted back to me
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directly I didn't know whether to take
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this or flip it over to crowdsource the
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truth he got back meat to me directly so
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I felt the obligation of telling his
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story again
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I like crowd source of truth to continue
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to develop this I think Jason would just
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be a fantastic for camera interview
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likely get the line like we did for dr.
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Corsi you likely good for Charles or
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talent
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who knows so anyway oh gosh that was
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Michael sending me a thing about records
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man
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a lot of the questions I asked he said
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I'm sorry I can't answer that I'm sorry
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I can't answer it sorry that's
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classified so this is a person who still
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has a very high esteem for the secrecy
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of the people of our country that have
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worked for our government now you
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probably also remember the OPM hack the
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OPM hack where 22 million records were
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hacked we don't know who hacked them but
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it could be a hacking group I mean I'm
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just guessing
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cozy pairs it could be a hacking group
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on Capitol Hill maybe maybe I think I
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know where the records are Kevin I think
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it's yeah yes I think it's D is a and
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near near Springfield but
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I won't speak publicly for you Jason I
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apologize the I'm gonna sign off now I
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just wanted to say so long from Central
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Park that's at Park Bryant Park taught
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me
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look forward to getting to know Michael
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McMahon's better over time we're not
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gonna quit on learning who's Michael my
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fan is and the issues that we had with
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netting and name search
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and it's the nature excuse me until
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we're done
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you