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title: How to Judge 'Independent' Investigations
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# How to Judge 'Independent' Investigations

 Posted by Robert J. Peters on  Nov 14, 2023

On The Roys Report podcast, Robert discussed how to tell whether an investigation into a church scandal is truly independent.

[Listen at The Roys Report](https://julieroys.com/podcast/how-to-judge-independent-investigations/)

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