On Background with Susan Crabtree
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<p dir="ltr">On Background with Susan Crabtree, a Government Accountability Institute podcast, aims to expose corruption and government mismanagement through hard-hitting investigative journalism. Hosted by veteran reporter Susan Crabtree, alongside GAI’s Vice President Eric Eggers, the podcast leverages confidential “on background” insights to uncover truths behind political headlines. </p>
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July 9, 2026
The DEA Policy That Let Millions of Fentanyl Pills Hit the Street | Ep. 31
A DEA agent seized fentanyl headed for the streets of Albuquerque. His own government punished him for it. On this episode of On Background, Susan Crabtree sits down with Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, the law firm representing DEA Special Agent David Howell. Howell blew the whistle on a policy that let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills keep moving through New Mexico so investigators could build bigger cases against the traffickers above them. The parallels to the ATF's Fast and Furious scandal are direct, and the human cost was worse. Leavitt walks through how a 2019 policy requiring agents to seize fentanyl whenever practical got quietly gutted under the Biden Justice Department, how Howell was sidelined and blocked from testifying after he raised concerns, and how a second DEA whistleblower has since come forward describing a separate case where the same tactic let millions more pills hit the street. New Mexico's fentanyl deaths spiked 21% even as the national rate fell. Leavitt also addresses the role of Chinese precursor chemicals, the Mexican cartels, and Biden-era border policy in fueling the crisis, and explains where the congressional and inspector general investigations stand now.
July 1, 2026
The Musician Who Won't Apologize for Loving His Country | Ep. 30
John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting joins Susan Crabtree and Eric Eggers to talk about performing on the USS Nimitz for America's 250th, bringing a freed hostage on stage to play piano, and why patriotism became a political flashpoint. He explains how a song written after October 7th connected him to hostage families, why he thinks the arts decide the culture war, and what a California flag ban says about the country right now. Susan and Eric dig into the drop in national pride, the media's role, and whether the divide is as deep as the headlines claim. On Background is a production of the Government Accountability Institute.
June 26, 2026
Newsom's Ten: The Associates He Hopes You Forget Before 2028 | Ep. 29
Susan Crabtree and Jed McFatter return to walk through ten figures in Gavin Newsom's political orbit who later faced charges, convictions, or prison. They trace verified election coercion in his first run for San Francisco mayor, the bribery cases reaching into his former staff, and the federal scrutiny now aimed at Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit and the millions flowing between it and her for-profit film company. The conversation closes on the socialist wave in New York and what it signals for Los Angeles and California. Read the reporting referenced in this episode in the California Globe and City Journal. Get the full investigation in the book Fool's Gold.
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<p dir="ltr">On Background with Susan Crabtree, a Government Accountability Institute podcast, aims to expose corruption and government mismanagement through hard-hitting investigative journalism. Hosted by veteran reporter Susan Crabtree, alongside GAI’s Vice President Eric Eggers, the podcast leverages confidential “on background” insights to uncover truths behind political headlines. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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