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We'll be coming back over. I'll continue.

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I am a former Los Angeles police narcotics detective, and I work South Central Los Angeles,

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and I will tell you, Director Deutsch, emphatically and without equivocation...

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Can you speak further into the mic, sir? These mics don't seem to be...

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I will tell you, Director Deutsch, as a former Los Angeles police narcotics detective,

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that the agency has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long time.

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All right. All right. All right. Obviously, that is an answer for a lot of you.

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Now, can you please? I refer... All right. Now, can you please?

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I refer... Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute.

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Wait a minute. Wait a minute here.

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Wait a minute. If you don't like what's going on here, please leave now.

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No, no, no. Leave. No, no, no. Leave now, because there are others who do want to hear what's going on in this room.

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Will you please take your seats? I will come back to you as we roll back across to the center section.

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Director Deutsch, I will refer you to three specific agency operations known as Amadeus, Pegasus, and Watchtower.

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I have Watchtower documents heavily redacted by the agency.

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I was personally exposed to CIA operations and recruited by CIA personnel who attempted to recruit me in the late 70s

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to become involved in protecting agency drug operations in this country.

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I have been trying to get this out for 18 years, and I have the evidence.

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My question for you is very specific, sir.

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If, in the course of the IG's investigations and Fred Hitz's work,

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you come across evidence of severely criminal activity...

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And it's classified.

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Will you use that classification to hide the criminal activity,

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or will you tell the American people the truth?

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All right, you want to hear the response first from Congressman Julian Dixon,

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and then from the director.

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Wait, wait a minute, from your, from your, I'm sorry, sir.

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I will allow the director to speak first, and then Congressman Julian Dixon.

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If you have information about CIA illegal activity in drugs,

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you should immediately bring that information to wherever you want.

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But let me suggest three places.

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The Los Angeles Police Department.

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Please.

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I'm sorry.

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Others want to hear this answer.

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I am sorry.

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Others want to hear this answer.

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It is your choice, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Inspector General,

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or office of one of your Congress persons from this...

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I did that 18 years ago, sir, and I got shot at for it.

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Wait a minute.

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Wait a minute, sir.

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Wait a minute.

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Wait a minute.

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Wait a minute, sir.

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And?

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Sir, you have not gotten the mic yet.

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You are not...

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But wait a minute, then.

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Don't speak out of turn.

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Let me say something else.

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If this information turns up wrongdoing,

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if it turns up wrongdoing,

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we will bring the people to justice and make them accountable.

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All right, Congressman Dixon.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, sir, for coming.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute here.

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I thought you did not want to be here,

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but now that you are here,

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please let us hear and listen.

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Thank you very much.

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Sir, I want to thank you for coming.

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You were at the last meeting.

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The staff probably had the spelling of your name wrong,

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but we would like to talk to you.

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We have been looking for a couple of days for you.

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And we want to...

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We want to make sure that you contact the committee

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because obviously you have some valuable information.

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If you want to give it to me privately,

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if you want to hand it to that aide

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where I can contact you this evening,

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please do it.

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Don't let us get away without getting a contact for you.

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Thank you, sir.

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If you want to pass it up to him now

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so everyone can see that I got it,

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that would be fine.

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Thank you, sir.

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And for the record, for the record...

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Please, please, please keep the noise down

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so that we can hear and we can get answers.

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For the record, my name is Mike Rupert, R-U-P-P-E-R-T.

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I did bring this information out 18 years ago

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and I got shot at and forced out of LAPD because of it.

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I've been on the record for 18 years nonstop

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and I'll be happy to give you, Congressman,

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anything that I have.

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Thank you, Mr. Rupert.

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