To back up his condemnation, Kampeas quoted Robert Wright's excoriation of Walsh in The Atlantic.

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Reviewing aloud the text during cross-examination of prosecution witness Corey Walsh, defense attorney Robert Baum sought to make the FBI agent counter his prior testimony that Valle's e-mails and online chats with others who said they were interested in cannibalism were real.

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Under questioning by Mr. Valle's attorney Robert Baum, FBI agent Corey Walsh also said many of the names and photographs of women whom authorities have said were the subjects of the kidnapping conspiracy were also mentioned in emails the FBI determined were fantasy.

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Ambassador ROBERT GALLUCCI (Dean of Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University): Good morning.

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