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FBI Agent Turned CNN Analyst Asha Rangappa Wants to Restore Your Faith in America

"Having seen how the sausage is made," she says, "I feel less worried about it."

On a quiet Tuesday evening in the suburbs of New Haven, Asha Rangappa is discussing propaganda with her children. "Have you ever come across white nationalists on YouTube?" she asks her adolescent son. He pauses, prodding at his pasta and twisting his mouth. "You took too long to answer," she says, "so you have!"

This, it seems, is typical; when your mom was once an FBI agent, you expect some dinnertime behavioral analysis. As the meal winds down, her son tells me that polygraphs are largely inaccurate and therefore inadmissible in court, and that "butt clenching" is a sign of lying. Expressionless, his little sister lies: "My name is Laura." "Yeah, but did your butt clench?" She tells him, firmly, no.

I'm at Asha Rangappa's dinner table because, for the past few years, her commentary on CNN and Twitter has helped hundreds of thousands of people understand the news.

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