It is difficult to write these words. But the War on Drugs has been a colossal failure. Recently reflecting on my own participation in this war, as a Continue Reading
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Much Ado About Mar-a-Lago
Much has been made of the FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago. The Department Of Justice's handling of the investigation, search warrant execution, and releasing Continue Reading
Retired FBI Executive to Black Lives Matter: Let’s Meet in the Middle of Some “Hard Truths”
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on April 10, 2017 and is just as relevant today. Greetings, Black Lives Matter. Please allow me to introduce Continue Reading
Careful When Indicting an Entire Group for the Actions of a Few
This article first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 21, 2017. ___ How could they be so stupid? I thought to myself, and emitted an audible Continue Reading
Why Building the Border Wall is a Bad Idea
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on April 24, 2017. President Trump's plan to construct a 2,000-mile border wall separating the United States Continue Reading
Hostage Rescue in the Age of ISIS
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on May 9, 2019. ______ Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare, there are no Continue Reading
The FBI Just Hacked Your Server
Imagine this headline, "Your company was just legally hacked by the FBI." If your one of hundreds of companies that had a security vulnerability this Continue Reading
Identity Theft: Americans Overwhelmingly Concerned about Credit Card Fraud
by Anonymous Research conducted recently by the Unisys Corporation reveals that identity theft when it comes to credit card scams is Americans' Continue Reading
Fact, Fiction, and the FBI: Why You Need to Rethink What You “Know” about J. Edgar Hoover
It was just a week after Christmas in 2013. I had abruptly departed my post in México City as the FBI's Acting Legal Attaché and was on a 90-day Continue Reading
A Bite of the Apple: Privacy vs. National Security
There is an interesting conundrum in the works between the FBI and Apple. But interestingly enough, while several other companies (Like Google) Continue Reading
A Retired FBI SWAT Team Leader Calls Out the New York Times
A Retired FBI SWAT Team Leader Calls Out the New York Times by James A. Gagliano This first appeared in The Havok Journal March 30, 2017 Police Continue Reading
The Complex, Troubling, and Convoluted Case of the Trump Tower Wiretap
Sometimes the intractable condition of life’s continual drift into a grayish existence means that events will often stubbornly refuse to be clearly Continue Reading