
Episode 5: Shut It Down
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
Senator Burton Wheeler Threatened Attorney General Francis Biddle With a Sedition Case
Senator Burton Wheeler attacked the Washington Post as a stooge of the Department of Justice and called its reporter a spy. Senator Wheeler said the sedition case had been brought solely for the purpose of smearing the America First Movement. The federal grand jury has indicted again 28 men and women on charges that they have conspired to establish a Nazi government in the United States. Before we've seen so far, this is going to be a legal three-ring circus.
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