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Lawmakers Question Maxwell’s Minimum-Security Transfer (6/17/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Ever since we heard that Gleainn Maxwell was
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  being moved from Tallahassee to Camp Brian, there have been
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  a lot of unanswered questions surrounding what necessitated such a move,
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  and not only that, but who gave the order because
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  according to Pam Bondy, she had no idea. So that
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  leaves us with Todd Blanche and according to him, he
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  said that there were some security issues that needed to
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  be addressed as far as Glenn Maxwell and her safety.
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  And on its face, something like that sounds reasonable, right
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  until you start looking at the numbers down in Tallahassee.
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  We're not talking about a dangerous prison where people are
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  getting shanked in the yard. We're talking about a low
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  level security prison. And honestly, that time was too soft
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  for too In my opinion, Glenn Maxwell should be in
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  at least a medium security. When you wear a children
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  you're engaged in a human trafficking operation, the last thing
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  you deserve is leniency, especially when that leniency is unexplained.
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  You mean to tell me that Glainne Maxwell deserves to
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  have this sort of break and other people in the
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  system don't. But we'd all be very naive to think
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  that there wasn't a two tier justice system, you know,
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  one system for them and another one for us. Today's
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  article is from The Times and the headline glean Maxwell's
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  prison is park like congressmen claims. This article was authored
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  by Josie and Zor. Congressmen who visited the prison where
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  Glenn Maxwell is serving her sex trafficking sentence have compared
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  the facility to a community college after claims that she
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  was being given special treatment. Well, we already knew, and
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  if you know anything about these low level camps, you
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  know that it's not hard time. Now, it's still prison, right,
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  you still have to be there, and there's still a
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  regimen for most people, but not Klainne Maxwell. She rules
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  the roost, does whatever she wants, and nobody has any
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  explanations as to why she gets all these extra privileges.
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  Members of the House Representatives Oversight Committee allege that more
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  than a dozen people have come forward with whistleblower complaints
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  that Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and accomplice receives unusual perks
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  at Brian prison camp, including being able to use a
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  laptop unsupervised and being given bottled water while other inmates
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  drink tap water. And that might not sound like a
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  big deal, right, but it is when you're in prison,
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  when you're in a controlled environment for doing what Kilain
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  Maxwell did not allegedly convicted by a jury of her peers.
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  This shouldn't be an enjoyable time for you. You should have
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  a laptop. You shouldn't have any of those necessities, especially
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  if nobody else is getting them. What makes Maxwell rate?
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  Why does she get this special treatment? Why does she
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  show up and just take the whole entire facility over?
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  On Tuesday, Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Robert Garcia
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  of California, the top Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight
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  Committees who are granted a tour of the Federal Prison,
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  a low security detention center in Texas where Maxwell is
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  serving her twenty year term. Garcia told CNN the facility
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  has fountains, trees, It was a Parklke community college setting.
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  This facility is the least restrictive for a movement in
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  the country. Now does that sound like a place where
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  Glene Maxwell deserves to go? I mean, let's be real here,
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  she should be in a regular prison, and I don't
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  even mean low security like Tallahassee. I complained about that too.
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  She should be in a medium level prison. She's a
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  dangerous person and if she was let out of prison,
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  my guess is she'd harm people again. He said that
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  Tanisha Hall, the warden at Brian Prison, confirmed that Maxwell
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  was the only convicted sex offender of more than six
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  hundred inmates. Not a single person could actually explain why
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  Maxwell was transferred there, Garcia said. Uniformly, we all came
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  back with the same conclusion. This is a park White
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  campus and Klaim Maxwell should not be there. Well, that's
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  a fact, and I'd love for somebody to explain to
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  me why she should be there, like break it down,
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  give me all the details, and then show me the
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  examples of other people that were in her situation who
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  were treated the same way. That shouldn't be too difficult, right,
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  He said. They were not granted access to Maxwell to
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  question her about her detention. Well that doesn't shock me either.
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  Got to protect the golden goose, right, got to make
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  sure that gallainn. Maxwell is in speaking out of school.
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  Raskin and Garcia said in a statement after that or
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  visit that the Bureau of Prisons leadership repeatedly shut down
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  our lines of questioning or could not provide basic information
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  about our central concerns, including Miss Maxwell's extraordinary treatment, allegations
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  of sexual assault that the facility, and retaliation against inmates
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  who tried to blow the whistle. We also have serious
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  concerns about the accuracy and veracity of information received by
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  our investigative staff. So basically saying that the facility is
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  trying to put the cabash on the investigation. And look,
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  it doesn't shock me. Have you guys been paying attention
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  to what we've been reading through with those depositions and
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  those meetings with the OIG investigators. It's not like the
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  CEOs and the people running these prisons are fucking MENSA candidates.
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  In fact, a lot of them seem to be relatively stupid.
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  And considering all of that, are you shocked that the
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  same thing's going on over here at Camp Brian. We
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  need a complete overhaul of the The American people are
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  tired of seeing the Trump administration pamper a sex trafficker
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  and obstruct Congress investigation into Attorney General Blanche's role and
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  ensuring Miss Maxwell remains comfortable and quiet. Look, Blanche is
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  directly in the middle of all of it, and it's
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  crazy to me that he doesn't realize that he's being
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  set up as the fall guy. When all said and done,
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  what do you think Donald Trump's going to be holding
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  the hot potato? We all know better than that it's
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  going to be Blanche. Who was going to be Bondie,
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  but now it's going to be Blanche. A Federal Bureau
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  of Prisons spokesman told The Times, our standards of employee
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  conduct explicitly prohibit staff from providing any preferential treatment to
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  any inmate. Yeah, what about the president? What about the
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  Attorney general or the deputy Attorney General? Are they allowed
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  to provide whatever they want? I mean, I'm sure that
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  there's some rules somewhere about quid pro quo from the
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  office of the President. Right, if only we had a
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  body that provided oversight. In an unprecedented move for a
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  sex offender with more than ten years left of their sentence,
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  Maxwell was transferred to Brian from a facility in Tallahassee
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  after meeting Todd Blanche, the then deputy Attorney General who
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  is now the acting Attorney General. Nothing funky there. Everything
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  was just you know, legit. They followed all protocols, nobody
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  stepped out of line. And there's no way that Glenn
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  Maxwell was given concessions to offer up some favorable words
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  towards Trump and the administration. There's no way that happened, right,
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  I mean, we would never see that from the most
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  transparent administration in the history of America. Her treatment by
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  the Trump administration has received significant attention since it backtracked
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  on a promise last July to release its full investigative
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  files on Epstein. As part of the selective five star treatment.
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  Garcia and Raskin alleged in a letter sent a Blanche
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  in January that Maxwell sixty four, has received unsupervised laptop access,
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  retained more personal and legal possessions than other inmates, and
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  enjoyed access to staff only areas to watch TV alone.
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  Must be nice to be Glad Maxwell running around like
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  she's fucking l Choppo over here. While miss Maxwell's special
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  treatment is both astonishing and unprecedented, it clearly stems from
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  the very top. The congressman wrote, Well, okay, you keep
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  saying this, do you have evidence of that? Let's see
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  the evidence now. It seems relatively apparent that that's what's happening.
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  But you're in charge of this investigation. What are you
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  doing and why are we stuck in neutral? Julie Howell,
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  an inmate at Brian who overlapped with Maxwell for several months,
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  spoke to CNN earlier in June after her release. Howell,
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  serving a sentence for a white collar crime, claimed Maxwell's
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  mules and water were delivered to her. She was escorted
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  by armed guards, and she was also given access to
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  areas like the chapel for private visits, like private visits.
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  Who's going to visit Glane Maxwell? What sort of slimy,
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  smarmy son of a bitch is going to visit Glaine Maxwell.
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  Other inmates say Maxwell has only had one cell mate,
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  while most other prisoners have to bunk with two others.
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  I'm sure somebody's getting paid, somebody's definitely getting hooked up,
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  a couple bucks under the table. Whatever, you know, what,
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  you know how it goes? Now? Can I prove that
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  I can't? But let's not act like the CEOs aren't crooked.
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  How do you think most of the contra band gets
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  into these facilities? The inmates aren't going out for a
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  run to the corner store and picking up a pack.
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  What they're doing is paying off these guards, and then
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  the guards will bring this contraband in and then the
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  guards get a cut of whatever the profits are and
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  on an ohs. David Marcus, Maxwell's lawyer denied in his
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  statement that she was receiving preferential treatment. The rule of
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  law matters most when it protects the least popular defendant.
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  He said, humane treatment is in special treatment, and political
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  prison tours don't move the country forward. Oh, isn't he
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  just such a intelligent man? Like, what are you even
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  talking about, David Marcus? Absolute buffoonery. Nobody's saying that Glainne
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  Maxwell shouldn't be treated like everybody else. The problem is
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  she's being treated better than everybody else. That's the problem.
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  So you can try and conflate the issue, but let's
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  not act like Alaine Maxwell is at some black CIA
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  site being rendered Okay, that's never happened. It's never going
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  to happen. And Glenn Maxwell, frankly is being treated way
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  better than she should be, and that, of course is
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  the heart of the problem. So let's see what Congress
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  has to say. Let's see what Congress does, and most importantly,
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  let's see if anybody is held accountable. All the information
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