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After Lord Bracadale's resignation earlier this week, the family said they felt "totally betrayed" by the criminal justice system.

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He even agreed to betray informants under U.S. protection to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in exchange for an agreement to lock up purported Venezuelan gang members in El Salvador’s gruesome gulag.

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The definition of an elite education has been undergoing revision of late, as top universities from Harvard to Columbia to Northwestern have too often betrayed their commitment to free inquiry on campus.

“Rather than using the safeguards other industries use, they let their trust betray them,” he said.

McClean added: "Home is home, you don't forget where you grew up… I am going to come back here one day, who am I to betray the people who basically raised me?"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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