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Advisory Opinions

Spies, Shredders, and Mistaken Identities

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Honor, thy name is the Pence staffer who found classified documents and resisted the urge to accidentally let them slip into a shredder. In addition to covering the latest in the Trump-Biden-Pence-Carter documents drama, David and Sarah discuss what’s shaping up to be one of the most egregious cases of spy corruption in American history. Plus: -A Georgia grand jury updates -A headscratcher case of wrongful arrest -Some thoughts on Florida’s crackdown on College Board’s African Studies AP curriculum

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0:00.0

Okay, here we go. Oh, the red dot is up. I mean, we are ready. Let's go.

0:06.5

Ready? I was born ready.

0:09.3

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and we've got a long list of things to cover.

0:32.3

We're going to update the classified documents, so weirdness. We're going to talk about the Georgia grand jury update.

0:40.7

This is the special grand jury convene to investigate potential election crimes or surrounding the 2020 Georgia presidential election.

0:48.6

We have thoughts on a senior FBI official arrested for taking bribes from an oligarch yikes.

0:57.3

We've got a really interesting wrongful detention case to talk about. Poor guy involved in this thing.

1:05.3

We're also going to talk if we've got time about the Florida advanced placement course, African American studies course controversy.

1:13.9

And then we're going to end if we've got time with the latest at Hamlin College University, whatever it is.

1:23.5

But I know it's pronounced Hamlin, which is where a professor was fired after showing an image of Muhammad painted by a Muslim in medieval times.

1:34.3

We've talked a bit about this case and there have been some developments.

1:38.2

But Sarah, do you want to start us off by talking about Mike Pence? Oh, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter found some classified documents? What the heck?

1:50.6

Look, let's start with the good news. We now have confirmation from HW Bush, Clinton, W and Obama's team.

1:59.5

They do not have any classified documents in their possession at their residences, not in the garage, not in the desk, not with their Celine Dion photos, not in the backseat of the Corvette. No.

2:12.4

So that's the good news.

2:14.4

The bad news, look, the Carter thing, I'm a little, the details are a little unclear.

2:21.6

At some point, Jimmy Carter, not recently found some classified documents and returned them to the National Archives.

2:30.0

This sounds like not even worth digging that far into the joke.

2:36.5

Of course, for everyone is Jimmy Carter found classified documents in his heart.

2:40.2

But look, here's the big news is that Mike Pence asked lawyers on his team to search his residence.

2:51.1

Those lawyers then called the National Archives. I mean, it's all going to sound so familiar, right?

2:57.2

Yeah.

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