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On this season of Bad Watchdog, we unpack the project on government oversight's

exclusive investigations uncovering the abuse of people in the Department of Homeland Security's

immigration detention. And how another threat has infiltrated the agency's own ranks.

It only takes one insider to undermine federal law enforcement attempts to go after crime.

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Hello all, Eric Rivenis with the Most Notorious Podcast here.

Each week I interview an author or historian about a historical true crime, tragedy,

or disaster.

Subject matter ranges from gunslingers to Gilded Age murder, to gangsters, to fires,

to pirates, to wild prison breaks.

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On to the show. Welcome to historical blindness, the odd past podcast.

In episode 16, we took our cue from a listener poll and recent coverage by the New York Times of a UFO research program conducted by the Pentagon and took you through a broad overview of unidentified aerial phenomena from ancient Egypt to the age of ballooning, compiling a list of remarkable sightings that predated Kenneth

Arnold's flying saucers in 1947, the event many see as the beginning of the UFO phenomenon.

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