Derrick Van Orden: “I read the steel dossier once, and I said, this is a…”

“I was a recognized expert in all of special operations, not just the SEAL teams. And I was plank owner with these teams and all the stuff, you know, and I read the steel dossier once, and I said, this is a bullshit politically driven document. And then I looked at, at the, the tone of everything that happened after that and how things just started getting visceral and nasty.” (09:06–09:11)

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