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Episode 8: Ultra Vires

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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Roggi's Report on Attorney General Clark's Insistence on Keeping Secrets

O. John Roggi was special assistant to the Attorney General in charge of prosecuting a group of alleged seditionists, men and women accused of spreading Nazi propaganda. He questioned dozens of Nazis and screened some 30,000 documents from the German Foreign Office files. When he returned, he wrote a report which contained, among other things, the names of 24 congressmen. In spite of that, Mr. Roggi made public some of the information in a speech at Swarthmore. Three days later, Mr. Clark fired him.

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