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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

The Fifth Column

CHAPTER

The Progressive Hero Who Was Striked Down Too Soon

Bobby Kennedy was a cop. He's one of the worst violators of American civil liberties, particularly the Fourth Amendment in the 20th century. For most of his adult life, he was a McCarthyite dirtbag who authorized a sort of dirty war in Cuba known as Operation Mongoose. But then at the end, he was like on the side of the Angels and then sadly he was shot by the lunatic Palestinian. It's crazy to me, of all the people that wanted to kill Bobby Kennedy, that it was Sir Hans... It was a palace. It was a crazy Palestinian.

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