Michael Loewinger
speaker
1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In a memo from October 2015 labeled CNN Wolfblitzer Talking Points Final, she received advice on how to respond to the fact that she had been asked by Democratic leadership not to attend a presidential debate.
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The advisor in that transcript said it's not a boot.
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Woohoo, I don't get to go to the party situation, Wolf.
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That's the line being delivered to her.
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And here's what Tulsi said during the interview she ended up having with Wolf Blitzer.
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You note in the piece that the advisor describes her as chicken sh or mealy mouthed.
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What was going through your mind as you're sort of seeing this behind the scenes shaping of a public official?
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Coming up, the second half of my conversation with John Swain, in which we get into the mechanics of long form reporting.
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This is
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This is on the media.
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I'm Brooke Gladstone.
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And I'm Michael Loinger.
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We're listening to my conversation with Washington Post reporter John Swain about his in-depth exploration of Tulsi Gabbard's relationship with a mysterious guru.
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I asked Swain to lay out the painstaking process he went through to investigate the claim that the unnamed advisor was in fact Chris Butler.
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And as you say, there were other circumstantial clues like policy advice where the speaker starts reminiscing about their experience of being a teenager working in Hawaii, which also points to Chris Butler.
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Syria was another subject that came up in many of the memos that you got a hold of.
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This was during the Syrian civil war when the Bashar al-Assad regime tried to brutally crush a popular uprising leading to a 14-year conflict.
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The person behind those memos said, quote, The CIA is the one that started this thing.
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You found it striking that such deep suspicion of U.S.
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intelligence appeared to have been fed to someone who would later coordinate the nation's top intelligence agencies, including the CIA.
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