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We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes and today, Adam,

we're going to talk a little bit about the Kamala Harris presidential campaign and its

embrace of early 2000's neo-conservatism.

Now recently the Kamla Harris campaign lauded the public endorsements of world historic war criminals

and pro-torture Republicans like George W Bush's former Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.

Harris, who said she was honored to have their support, is also going around touting

the endorsement that her presidential bid has received from Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter, and more than 200 former staffers from past Republican administrations and campaigns.

Both Harris and her running mate, Minnesota

Governor Tim Wals, have recently boasted about these endorsements publicly during

recent televised debates. Now, don't forget former CIA director Michael Hayden and

William Webster and of course the illustrious Hillary Clinton was very

proud of this endorsement of John Negroponte, noted war criminal during the dirty wars of the 80s.

And the most notably the US ambassador to Iraq, they're sort of vice the vicer of Iraq, as he was also the Viceroy of various Cold War

outfits and was huge, a big part of pushing the Iraq war.

So we have a murderer's row here. Now look I want to start off by saying there's a few

qualifiers we'll throw out here. Obviously we just did an episode on people using

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