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DeminPennswoods

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46. Fearmongering equals ratings

Sat Nov 21, 2020, 09:52 AM

Nov 2020

It's nothing more than that. FWIW, Chris Hayes was in a panic about it, too, a couple days ago and actually interviewed Gellman.

Gellman isn't a lawyer or a constitutional law scholar. He's a very good national security reporter and has broken his share of important stories in that arena, but as posted above, his story in The Atlantic was nothing but speculative clickbait.

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Correct - the argument/discussion was prior to the election, Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #33

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