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WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., responded Tuesday to a television expos by former pro wrestler and ex-Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura that suggests the federal government is planning to house ordinary citizens in concentration camps.
Ventura aired the allegations on his Conspiracy Theory show on the truTV network on Nov. 12, and the episode has since gone viral on YouTube and across the Internet.
Cohen, a co-sponsor of a bill that would create FEMA camps for people temporarily displaced by hurricanes or a potential Mid-South earthquake, sat for an interview with Ventura in his Capitol Hill office on Sept. 16. Parts of that interview are reproduced...