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Ever Heard The Story of Patrick "Tate" Adamiak? I Didn't Think So ... · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, friends, welcome the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Great to be with you this morning, and it is Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Great to always have with us. Lee Williams. He is
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  Speaker 1: the gun Writer. You can find his work at his website,
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  Speaker 1: Thegunriter dot substack dot com. Lee's kind enough to carve
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  Speaker 1: out time for us once a month. Hello friend, how
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well, sir? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrific. The nature of the things that you cover
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  Speaker 1: now is the same, but it's different. I'm curious to
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  Speaker 1: know what your reaction was when Donald Trump made the
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  Speaker 1: decision to slide ATF's management under Cash Bettel, the new
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  Speaker 1: director of the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, everybody in the gun and community
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  Speaker 2: went huh okay, it sounds and I pray this is
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. Brother. It sounds like he may whack
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  Speaker 2: it or carve it up. Everybody was worried that he's
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  Speaker 2: going to pick a your cat to be the ATF director,
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  Speaker 2: But then he gave it to Cash. Two. We don't
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  Speaker 2: know right now what exactly ATF is going to look like.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they keep three or four people on fire
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  Speaker 2: and the rest. It is a terrible organization. It should
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  Speaker 2: not exist. If they would have given it to somebody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with some financial or management background, he would
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  Speaker 2: just want to rebuild it. But Cash has his hands
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  Speaker 2: fall with the DoD so we'll see. I hope, I
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  Speaker 2: pray that he's going to chop it in a little
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  Speaker 2: indie bitty bins.
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  Speaker 1: I found a lot of comfort in Pam Bondi's decision
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  Speaker 1: to fire the General Council, because the General Council for ATF,
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  Speaker 1: who had been there since twenty twenty one, was likely
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  Speaker 1: behind some of the most egregious decisions that ATF has
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  Speaker 1: made in the last four.
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  Speaker 2: Years, without a doubt, without a dot. She was an evil, evil,
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  Speaker 2: evil person who's lucky to make it out of there
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  Speaker 2: without was quite frankly, without facing any criminal charges. Because
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  Speaker 2: that's the way it should be. I mean, my god, man,
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  Speaker 2: look at what that agency has done. Okay, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to look very far, because well, they targeted you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Mark Manley and his family had grenades thrown at him.
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  Speaker 2: Russell Fincher lost his farm. Oh and you can ask
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  Speaker 2: Brian Melanowski's widow what she thinks of him, because ATF
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  Speaker 2: shot and killed her husband. Brian but you know he's
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  Speaker 2: running an airport, never had any interaction with law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: ATF is a sick joke, bro, and it needs to
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  Speaker 2: be put down.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't you argue that Cash Betel might actually be perfect
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  Speaker 1: in this regard? There needs to be an investigation of
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  Speaker 1: the criminal actions that went on inside ATF over the
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  Speaker 1: last several years.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, huge, Yeah, I mean it's like, who
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  Speaker 2: aren't you going to charge? Their malfeasance is legendary. Every
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  Speaker 2: big investigation they've ever tried to do, they screw up,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, occasionally somebody dies, or a whole community
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  Speaker 2: like in Waco, Texas, will die. It's sick.
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  Speaker 1: We've got time left this morning to talk about something
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  Speaker 1: that I know is very important to Lee. It's a
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  Speaker 1: story he's written about multiple times. It's the story of
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  Speaker 1: a sailor serving twenty years in prison for legal semi
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  Speaker 1: automatic collectibles. You can shake your head all you want
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  Speaker 1: and say, come on, that's not happening, But as we've
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  Speaker 1: just sort of documented, that's exactly what's been going on
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  Speaker 1: under the ATF.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: The gun writer. Lee Williams joins us this morning. Lee
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  Speaker 1: tell us the story of Patrick Tate is it a damiak.
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  Speaker 2: A dombiac. Yeah, you're you're pretty close.
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  Speaker 1: Where where does this begin?
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  Speaker 2: Even East six in the Navy, Going for one, he
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  Speaker 2: had been accepted to go and go to Seal School
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  Speaker 2: out in Coronado, California, and he had done some preliminary stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to get promoted to an one. He
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  Speaker 2: had gotten his degree as an enlisted man in the Navy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: for those of you who aren't familiar with special operations,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty rare. You know, they only have an X
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  Speaker 2: number of officer spots in Seal School and they like
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  Speaker 2: to give him to graduates from college, graduates from Annapolis.
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  Speaker 2: So him getting that was a pretty big deal. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: all all of his adult life he been dealing with
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  Speaker 2: gun parts on several websites. He's been selling legal gun parts.
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  Speaker 2: So of course ATF tries to entrap him. He's got
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  Speaker 2: some ATF snitch who was going after a completely innocent man.
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  Speaker 2: They kick a search warrant at his home. Every single
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  Speaker 2: thing they find is one percent legal. Every single thing
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  Speaker 2: they find in as safe as one hundred percent legal.
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  Speaker 2: So what do they do well? ATF sends in this
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  Speaker 2: dufust named Jeffrey Bodell. He's ATF Firearms enforcement officer. He
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  Speaker 2: takes the the guy has a toy sten gun. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't fire around in one chamber around. He puts
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  Speaker 2: a sten action in a sten barrel of a magazine
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  Speaker 2: won't fit, and he gets the thing to go bang once.
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  Speaker 2: Admiak had had five very expensive and extremely collectible, perfectly
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  Speaker 2: legal semi atos that fire from an open bowl. Based
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  Speaker 2: on the MAC ten. All the ATF technician could achieve
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  Speaker 2: was semi automatic fire with these. He classified all five
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  Speaker 2: as machine guns. There were several receivers that have been
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  Speaker 2: cut in half. The guy called them machine guns. Same
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  Speaker 2: parts you can buy online right now. We can go
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  Speaker 2: to the website. You don't even get an FFL or
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  Speaker 2: any paperwork. Bodell had three inert RPGs, rocket propelled grenade launchers.
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  Speaker 2: They had holes drilled in him. They were stripped of
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  Speaker 2: their internal parts. He picked them up at some kind
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  Speaker 2: of fare somewhere. Their ATF expert added parts from real
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  Speaker 2: RPGs until he could fire not a rocket but a
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  Speaker 2: single seventy six two by thirty nine millimeters round. As
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  Speaker 2: a result, they were destructive devices. He went to court
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  Speaker 2: he got sentenced to twenty years. He is serving. He's
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  Speaker 2: on like year number two right now. It's just crazy, brother,
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  Speaker 2: Why is this such a big deal? Because if they're
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  Speaker 2: going to go after and prosecute Adomiak, who was an
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  Speaker 2: innocent e six, say he'd be leading a special warfare
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  Speaker 2: platoon right now, They'll go after anybody. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wrote seven stories I think on this because this
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  Speaker 2: is a good guy. I've talked to him several times,
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  Speaker 2: practically every day in prison. He's in New Jersey, and
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  Speaker 2: you know he's a good guy who doesn't belong there.
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  Speaker 2: But the ATF lied at nauseum about him.
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  Speaker 1: This is horrifying.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: So who's to fay? This clearly has to be under
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  Speaker 1: appeal or is it not.
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  Speaker 2: It's under appeal, but you know those can take years. Brother,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump could let him out right now on a part,
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  Speaker 2: pardon him and let him.
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  Speaker 1: Go, and then he needs to file suit against ATF.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely every single thing. And I've gone through the
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  Speaker 2: list one hundred times. They took like sixty things from him.
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  Speaker 2: All of them are legal. And if you don't believe
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  Speaker 2: they're legal, let's go to these gun websites and you
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  Speaker 2: can buy them. You can buy them right now. Half
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  Speaker 2: of them. Most of them you don't even need your
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  Speaker 2: driver's license. They're not firearms. It's a gun tit where
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  Speaker 2: the receiver's been chopped in a half. So who was
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  Speaker 2: who turned everything into machine guns and grenade launchers and
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  Speaker 2: destructive devices?
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  Speaker 1: So who was defending Patrick at the very outset of this?
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  Speaker 1: Or did he not have the resources to hire an attorney?
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  Speaker 2: He hired an attorney. The attorney was kind of a joke.
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  Speaker 2: He hired good experts too, but the judge wouldn't The
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  Speaker 2: judge was part of the problem. Wouldn't let the experts testify.
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  Speaker 2: And you know you should read this, Bodell's.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds like a John Grisham novel.
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  Speaker 2: Lee. Oh, it's horrible. It's horrible. That's why I've devoted
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  Speaker 2: seven stories, and I got to tell you they're being read.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen tracks on my Twitter a million page
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  Speaker 2: views on one tweet. It's just amazing how this kid
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  Speaker 2: is getting known and we need to pass his name around.
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  Speaker 2: This guy, I can't tell you what a good man is.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to lead a seal place two. It's
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  Speaker 2: just mind numbing.
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  Speaker 1: Brother twenty one minutes past the hour. Lee Williams with
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  Speaker 1: me his website, Thegunwriter dot substack dot com. You can
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  Speaker 1: find the articles and the opinions. There's five article fact
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  Speaker 1: based articles and there are a couple of op eds
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  Speaker 1: written by Lee Williams on a young man serving twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: He committed no crime. He had nothing in his possession
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  Speaker 1: that was illegal. And Lee, I think people are right
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  Speaker 1: now sitting there saying this can't happen in America, but
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  Speaker 1: it's happening.
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  Speaker 2: It is. I mean, they rebuilt ATF, rebuilt a toy
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  Speaker 2: gun and three d watt means completely demilitarized RPGs to
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  Speaker 2: make their case against an innocent man. What won't they do?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at these people who've been victimized before,
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  Speaker 2: like Mark Manley. Okay, he doesn't know if he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be charged. Same thing there. They didn't find anything
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  Speaker 2: in his helm that was illegal, but he's told, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be under investigation. Brian Melanowski, same thing.
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  Speaker 2: What would they have charged him with? Oh, that's right,
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  Speaker 2: they shot him. AHF is completely completely lost control. Whoever
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  Speaker 2: signing their warrants is nuts. It's just like this case here.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen anything this bad, brother, I mean, I've
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  Speaker 2: covered I've written hundreds of stories on ATF for fifteen years.
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  Speaker 2: I have never seen anything this bad. Where you have
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  Speaker 2: a great guy, I mean, was accepted to seal school, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: was going to be a Navy seal. And the Navy
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  Speaker 2: never bought into the charges either. Now, once he went
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  Speaker 2: to once he went to jail, once the trial was
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  Speaker 2: going on, they could have reduced him that E won,
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  Speaker 2: but no, they paid out. Is they kept him as
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  Speaker 2: an E six because his friends had gone to an
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  Speaker 2: agent said hey, this is what ATF's doing and this
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  Speaker 2: is screwed up. Navy bought into that. He was allowed
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  Speaker 2: to quit his military career with honor. He received an
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  Speaker 2: honorable discharge in prison. ATF is completely bogus on this.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you that enough.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you and I talked off air about you know
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  Speaker 1: some people that we know through the show that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to reach out to. But what would you like
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  Speaker 1: people listening to know? And what can they do?
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  Speaker 2: First thing is go to his website, freedomfor Tate dot org.
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  Speaker 2: That's Freedom for Tate as in Patrick Tate adomiak dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's a dot com too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, read about it. Read about his story. My stories
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  Speaker 2: are on there, everybody's stories are on there. Read about
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  Speaker 2: him and get up to speed, and then go to
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  Speaker 2: your lawmakers. He needs a presidential pardon, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: time to go after the ATF if there's any ATF
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  Speaker 2: left by them, and I hope there will be, because
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  Speaker 2: somebody needs to go to prison for what they did
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not enough. Look, obviously you accept the pardon,
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  Speaker 1: you accept getting him out of prison immediately, but that's
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  Speaker 1: not good enough. He needs to be restored, He needs
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  Speaker 1: to be made whole. There needs to be restitution paid
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  Speaker 1: to him, and then there needs to be accountability to
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  Speaker 1: the people that made this happen, including the judge that
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  Speaker 1: ran a farce of a trial and would not allow
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  Speaker 1: evidence that is overwhelmingly admissible into the court evidence for
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  Speaker 1: the trial.
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  Speaker 2: You know, And I still think about these young seals
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  Speaker 2: in his seal platoon and how he would have been
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  Speaker 2: a great officer and and these guys would have really
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  Speaker 2: benefited from being in his platoon. Uh, that just hurts
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  Speaker 2: me as a military man. That it's it's sad man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he'll never he can get out tomorrow. He
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  Speaker 2: will never be a naval officer, and that's that sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Why couldn't he be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's so competitive to get in, uh, especially especially
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  Speaker 2: a special in the unit like that is. He just couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: But but but a wrongful convictionally in this circumstance would
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  Speaker 1: would almost require a Navy reinstatement.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm all for that. I hope the
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  Speaker 2: Navy would do that. I just don't see it happening.
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  Speaker 2: I'm more concerned right now. I'm getting him getting his
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  Speaker 2: butt out of prison. Sure, he is serving in a
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  Speaker 2: medium security in New Jersey, and yeah, I mean he's
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  Speaker 2: he's doing tasks every day, trying to focus on his case.
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  Speaker 2: But every time I talk to him, it's on a
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  Speaker 2: payphone and you'll have to run and go to get
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  Speaker 2: his ID checked. And I mean it's just a hassle.
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  Speaker 2: And he, like I said, he did nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Lee. Thank you for what you're doing. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all you've written on this and sharing his story
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  Speaker 1: on the program today. And we will use whatever resources
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  Speaker 1: we have available to us to try to help and
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  Speaker 1: advance the cause.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent. I can't thank you enough, brother, That's what we need.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Sir Lee Williams with us this morning again
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  Speaker 1: the website Thegunwriter dot substack dot com. But I think
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  Speaker 1: Lee would immediately say, go to this website, Freedom for
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  Speaker 1: Tate fo R, Freedom for Tate dot com and you'll
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  Speaker 1: see the entire story there. This Morning Show with Preston
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  Speaker 1: Scott