California Dream Turns Nightmare with Susan Crabtree | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #115

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree about her new book (co-authored with Jed McFatter) “Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.”

In our round-up of the week’s best investigative reporting, Zane and Varney discuss articles in the Washington Free Beacon and USA today on the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center stemming from its payment of some $3 million from 2014 to 2023 to members of the KKK, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, and other "violent extremist" groups who allegedly served as informants and a New York Times article about people who lost their jobs when the Trump administration shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Articles Discussed in This Podcast:

• Susan Crabtree & Jed McFatter“Fool’s GoldThe Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.”  ()

• Washington Free BeaconSouthern Poverty Law Center's OffShore Riches  ()

• USA TodayFBISPLC Paid Informants Without Donors Knowing. Feds Pay Them Too ()

• Data Republican: How the Charlottesville Rally and SPLC Birthed Billion-Dollar-Plus ‘Democracy’ Ecosystem

• New York TimesA Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss ()

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