A Second Look At The Jack Smith Brief
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court term has officially ended and after some truly terrifying decisions |
| 0:05.8 | it can be hard to know what it all means and what is next. That's where strict scrutiny comes in. |
| 0:10.4 | Join us, hosts and constitutional law professors. Each week as we break down the latest headline in a laugh or two. Strict scrutiny is your guide to the Supreme Court. New episodes |
| 0:23.7 | drop every Monday. Make sure to subscribe to strict scrutiny wherever you get your |
| 0:27.3 | podcast and on YouTube. Welcome to Talking Feds 1 on 1, deep dive discussions with national figures about the most fascinating and |
| 0:44.6 | consequential issues defining our culture and shaping our lives. I'm your |
| 0:50.2 | host Harry Littman. |
| 0:52.6 | When the brief from Jack Smith, the 165-page Magnum Opus |
| 0:57.8 | was suddenly published last week, |
| 1:00.5 | people poured through it intensively to get all the nuggets of new information and |
| 1:06.7 | bombshells of which there were a few dozen in there and you had a race of real focus to the big points in the brief and then since |
| 1:19.0 | then interestingly enough because people have been waiting for this evidence in one form or another, including a trial, there hasn't been that much of a second look, and that's what I wanted to do today. |
| 1:32.0 | Have a little bit of a survey of some important points that were |
| 1:37.5 | maybe missed in the first time around as people including me were very quickly foraging. |
| 1:44.5 | And to do it, we have really the perfect person. |
| 1:48.2 | Marcy Wheeler, known to many of you, |
| 1:51.2 | but she's long been known by the handle empty wheel she's an independent |
| 1:56.2 | journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties she writes at her blog Empty Wheel, publishes in many outlets including |
| 2:06.7 | motherboard the new republic and Al Jazeera and appears frequently on TV and |
| 2:10.9 | radio and is the author of anatomy of deceit a |
| 2:14.9 | primer on the CIA leak investigation but above all those things she is |
| 2:20.7 | particularly I think, meticulous, thorough, |
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