Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Almost a year later, are we seeing signs of some sort of accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection? And why is that accountability so important and yet so hard to achieve? Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, Shaub currently leads the Project on Government Oversight’s ethics initiative.
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