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Commander Kirk S. Lippold, USN (Ret), was the Commanding Officer of the USS Cole when it came under a suicide terrorist attack by al Qaeda in the port of Aden, Yemen. Charities for Vets, a watchdog group that recently audited 100+ of the largest veterans' charities — and found that 40% failed basic standards for efficient use of donations

Raising Expectations with Pastor Joe Schofield, Stefanie and Dr Craig Thayer, Dr Paul Hall, and Ron Greer With Guests, Charles Lingerfelt Editor of Christian Times Magazine and Paul Antaby, Master Chief from the USS Cole We are delighted to have our friend and beloved Texas Republican Congressional Candidate Charles Lingerfelt with us! God has used Charles in so many ways in changing lives here and globally! He was born and raised in the state of Tennessee, where he graduated from high school and became an alumnus of Lee University. But in 1969, Charles and his family moved to the state of Texas, and has resided here ever since. He has made 29 trips to Iraqi Kurdistan, teaching American English and government. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Christian Times Magazine which is now being read globally around the world in 178 countries. Charles is an expert on so many national and international political situations and is a man of great Christian Faith in the Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. *On a special note Charles will be joined by Alan Abney and his wife Jan from the USS COLE who he interviewed for the International Christian Times Magazine.

Today, Hunter spoke with two defense lawyers handling the USS Cole case out of Guantanamo Bay. Allison Miller and Katie Carmon are two of the defense counsel on the al-Nashiri, and last fall, they thought that after more than two decades of pre trial confinement, the cases would finally end when they entered into a plea negotiation with the government. Unfortunately, then Secretary of Defense Loyd Austin exercised undue and unlawful command influence by terminating the agreements. Now with a new administration, what is next for the never ending cases at Guantanamo Bay?   Guest Allison Miller, Learned Counsel for Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri Katie Carmon, Supervising Defense Counsel for the al-Nashiri Team   Resources: Coverage of the Plea Deals https://www.npr.org/2025/01/09/nx-s1-5252462/guantanamo-9-11-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-plea-deal https://apnews.com/article/guantanamo-plea-deal-911-austin-death-penalty-073c3455e27ecbfd0f7dd524ccffdef3 https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-rules-signed-plea-agreements-with-three-of-the-9-11-defendants-are-valid-and-must-go-into-effect https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/us/politics/911-case-plea-deals.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court-plea-agreements-911-architect-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/31/us-military-court-clears-way-for-possible-plea-deals-for-9-11 https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/Secreary-Austin's-Fateful-GTMO-Plea-Deals-Decision https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/us/politics/defense-secretary-plea-deals.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/defense-secretary-overrides-plea-agreement-for-9-11-defendants-reinstates-as-death-penalty-cases   Contact Hunter Parnell:                                 Publicdefenseless@gmail.com  Instagram @PublicDefenselessPodcast Twitter                                                                 @PDefenselessPod www.publicdefenseless.com  Subscribe to the Patron www.patreon.com/PublicDefenselessPodcast  Donate on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5KW7WMJWEXTAJ Donate on Stripe https://donate.stripe.com/7sI01tb2v3dwaM8cMN Trying to find a specific part of an episode? Use this link to search transcripts of every episode of the show! https://app.reduct.video/o/eca54fbf9f/p/d543070e6a/share/c34e85194394723d4131/home  

Raising Expectations with Pastor Joe Schofield, Stefanie and Dr Craig Thayer, Dr Paul Hall, and Ron Greer With Guest, Master Chief Paul Abney, USS Cole, guided missile ship Paul Abney and his wife Jan will be with us to share from his heart the events that happened that terrible day on the USS Cole! Al Qaeda suicide bombers killed 17 sailors and injured nearly 40 others. It was a terrible day that has become a source of determination and camaraderie for our great United States Navy. Catherine Herridge well known Fox and CBS journalist and senior investigative reporter has done an interview and article with Paul and one other officer that is outstanding. It will be discussed on our show with former Texas Congressional Candidate Charles Lingerfelt, Paul Abney and our wonderful Raising Expectations Team on March 17th! Charles is the editor of The Christian Times Magazine (world wide distribution) which will feature Master Chief Paul Abney on the cover of its March Edition with the story inside! Paul is a devout committed Christian who grieved horribly for his fellow crew members- but whose strength of faith and character was and is a source of peace for his men and women in uniform to this day! The Team! Pastor Joe Schofield Dr. Paul Paul Hall Stef Stefanie Shaw Thayer Dr. Craig Craig Tank Thayer Pastor Ron Ron Greer

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Send us a textCan you heal yourself and rise to leadership in the Navy's highest enlisted ranks?In this powerful episode, we're joined by Amaury Ponciano—an inspiring example of authenticity, accountability, and transformation. From surviving the tragic USS Cole bombing to battling his own personal demons, Amaury's story is a raw and honest reminder that true leadership begins with owning your struggles and turning them into strengths.Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Amaury's 20+ years of Navy service have been defined by resilience, sacrifice, and the pursuit of excellence. He opens up about: • Witnessing unimaginable loss during the USS Cole disaster • Confronting personal flaws, including a battle with serial womanizing • Balancing the demands of military life with his roles as a son, father, and mentorBut Amaury's journey isn't just about challenges—it's also about growth. He's a two-time master's degree graduate, most recently earning one in Applied Cyber Operations from the Naval Postgraduate School. He's a global traveler who's visited over 80 countries and 100 cities, a soccer enthusiast, and a lover of cultural exploration through food. His why are his kids and leaving a legacy his mother and children can be proud of. Author of “Anchored in Resilience – Overcoming Adversity through Mental Health Awareness”Join us as Amaury shares lessons on leadership, resilience, and the power of community. Whether you're navigating your own struggles or striving to be a better leader and human, this conversation will leave you inspired to take accountability, embrace growth, and lead with authenticity.

Kirk Lippold is a retired U.S. Navy Commander. Kirk was the Commanding Officer of the USS Cole on October 12, 2000, when the ship was attacked in the port of Aden, Yemen, resulting in the tragic loss of 17 American sailors. The attack and the heroic actions of the crew are detailed in Kirk's book, Front Burner: Al-Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole. To learn more about Kirk, follow him on X @KirkLippold SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/targeted- beirut/ Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web at http://jackcarr.co/bcm and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA.com  BCM Jack Carr MOD 4 pistol grip. Get yours here-https://bravocompanyusa.com/bcm- jack-carr-mod-4-pistol-grip-black/ SIG: Sig Sauer 1911 X. Learn more here-https://www.sigsauer.com/1911-xfull.html Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://jackcarr.co/gear

Cole on October 12, 2000, when the ship was attacked in the port of Aden, Yemen, resulting in the tragic loss of 17 American sailors. The attack and the heroic actions of the crew are detailed in Kirk's book, Front Burner: Al-Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole. To learn more about Kirk, follow him on X @KirkLippold SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/targeted- beirut/ Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web at http://jackcarr.co/bcm and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA.com  BCM Jack Carr MOD 4 pistol grip. Get yours here-https://bravocompanyusa.com/bcm- jack-carr-mod-4-pistol-grip-black/ SIG: Sig Sauer 1911 X. Learn more here-https://www.sigsauer.com/1911-xfull.html Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://jackcarr.co/gear

Murph welcomes back another old friend and colleague, retired FBI Special Agent Dale Watson.  Dale shares his journey from college to the U.S. Army, to joining the FBI.  Working his way up through the ranks, Dale became involved in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and crisis management.  He participated in several high-profile investigations including bombings in Oklahoma City, Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, USS Cole in Yemen, U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the anthrax mailings, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.  Dale reflects on the need for a proactive approach to terrorism prevention, and the resistance he faced in implementing changes.  Dale and Murph discuss the current state of Congress, the importance of accountability in government, the challenges faced by law enforcement, and how Dale continues to serve in retirement.

Murph welcomes back another old friend and colleague, retired FBI Special Agent Dale Watson.  Dale shares his journey from college to the U.S. Army, to joining the FBI.  Working his way up through the ranks, Dale became involved in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and crisis management.  He participated in several high-profile investigations including bombings in Oklahoma City, Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, USS Cole in Yemen, U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the anthrax mailings, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.  Dale reflects on the need for a proactive approach to terrorism prevention, and the resistance he faced in implementing changes.  Dale and Murph discuss the current state of Congress, the importance of accountability in government, the challenges faced by law enforcement, and how Dale continues to serve in retirement.

Murph welcomes back another old friend and colleague, retired FBI Special Agent Dale Watson.  Dale shares his journey from college to the U.S. Army, to joining the FBI.  Working his way up through the ranks, Dale became involved in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and crisis management.  He participated in several high-profile investigations including bombings in Oklahoma City, Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, USS Cole in Yemen, U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the anthrax mailings, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.  Dale reflects on the need for a proactive approach to terrorism prevention, and the resistance he faced in implementing changes.  Dale and Murph discuss the current state of Congress, the importance of accountability in government, the challenges faced by law enforcement, and how Dale continues to serve in retirement.

"USS Cole is in the Eastern Med right now helping defend Israel against Iranian ballistic missiles. And it's because of my crew of heroes."   On October 12, 2000, Kirk Lippold was the Commanding Officer on the USS Cole when it was attacked by al-Qaeda. In an instant, Commander Lippold oversaw saving his men and his rapidly sinking ship. Though 17 sailors tragically lost their lives, he and his crew did achieve a historic feat: saving the USS Cole.   Commander Lippold joins Benjamin to discuss the events of that horrific day and to weigh in on the connection between his 2000 attack and the terrorist attacks on 9/11, as well as the current state of U.S. national security. Follow Benjamin on X: @BenjaminHallFNC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IRAN: USS Cole, USS Bulkeley, help defend Israel. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute USS Enterprise

11 września 2001 roku to data, która na zawsze zmieniła bieg historii. Dzień, w którym dwie wieże World Trade Center w Nowym Jorku runęły, stając się symbolem tragedii, ale także początkiem nowej ery przemian. W tym odcinku Podcastu Historycznego przeniesiemy się do tamtych dni, aby zrozumieć, co naprawdę się wydarzyło, jakie były motywy sprawców oraz jak to tragiczne wydarzenie wpłynęło na świat, który znamy dzisiaj. Ten odcinek podzieliłem na dwie części, aby przyjrzeć się zarówno historii tego dnia, jak i teorii spiskowych, które wokół niego narosły. W pierwszej części „Historia”, krok po kroku, przejdziemy przez wydarzenia, które doprowadziły do tej tragedii. Cofniemy się do przeddzień zamachów, aby zrozumieć kontekst, w jakim działała Al-Kaida , oraz jak wcześniejsze ataki - od zamachu na World Trade Center w 1993 roku, po ataki na ambasady USA w Afryce i niszczenie USS Cole - wskazywały na narastające zagrożenie. Porozmawiamy o roli Stanów Zjednoczonych na Bliskim Wschodzie, z uwzględnieniem działań w Afganistanie i Arabii Saudyjskiej, oraz o tym, jak te działania przyczyniły się do wzrostu napięć. Przeanalizujemy również, dlaczego systemy wywiadowcze i bezpieczeństwa nie zdołały zapobiec tym atakom, mimo licznych ostrzeżeń. Przyjrzymy się, jak wyglądało World Trade Center przed tym dniem – to nie tylko był kompleks biurowy, ale również symbol amerykańskiej potęgi gospodarczej. Minuta po minucie przejdziemy przez ten pamiętny dzień. W drugiej części odcinka pt. „Teoria”, przyjrzymy się teoriom spiskowym, które od lat towarzyszą tej tragedii i jedna po drugiej obalimy je, bazując na faktach i nauce. To ważne, aby oddzielić fakty od mitów, zwłaszcza gdy chodzi o wydarzenie o tak wielkim znaczeniu historycznym. Omówimy popularne teorie spiskowe dotyczące zamachów i szczegółowo przeanalizujemy ich podstawy, a następnie obalimy je, opierając się na solidnych faktach i dowodach. Wyjaśnimy, dlaczego teorie spiskowe tak silnie zakorzeniły się w świadomości ludzi i jak można skutecznie przeciwstawić się dezinformacji. Ważne: Podcast ten został starannie opracowany, bazując na oficjalnych danych, raportach rządowych oraz wieloletnich, uznanych badaniach. Odcinek ma na celu nie tylko przypomnienie tych tragicznych wydarzeń, ale też edukację, w tym poprzez obalanie fałszywych narracji, które wprowadzają w błąd. Moim celem jest dostarczenie rzetelnych informacji, które pomogą słuchaczom lepiej zrozumieć, co naprawdę, zgodnie ze wszelkimi naukowymi ustaleniami i szeregiem badań wydarzyło się 11 września 2001 roku, i dlaczego ważne jest, aby opierać swoje przekonania na faktach, a nie na mitach. Ten odcinek, jak wszystkie odcinki Podcastu Historycznego, skupia się na rzetelnych, edukacyjnych treściach, unikając przy tym jakichkolwiek drastycznych szczegółów. Nie ma tu miejsca na sensację, szokujące obrazy czy promowanie obalonych teorii spiskowych. Zawsze jasno zaznaczam, kiedy omawiam i obalam dezinformację, nie dając jej żadnego poparcia. Podcast ma za zadanie edukować i ten odcinek taki właśnie jest - edukacyjny. Dobrego słuchania! Rafał Jeśli Ci się podoba - wesprzyj! https://patronite.pl/podcasthistoryczny Jednorazowe wsparcie: https://suppi.pl/podcasthistoryczny Timeline: 0:00 Intro 6:20 Patroni 7:09 Wstęp 11:46 Część I: Historia. Rozdział I: Przeddzień 15:17: Bliski Wschód, rola USA w Afganistanie i Arabii Saudyjskiej 18:18: Al-Kaida 23:43 Porażka wywiadu USA 28:00 World Trade Center 32:04 Co wchodziło w skład WTC 35:14 Rozdział II: Minuta po Minucie 57:30 Przemówienie George'a W. Busha 1:01:30 Rozdział III: Ludzie; Bilans tego dnia 1:04:10 Historie zwykłych ludzi 1:05:14 Kevin Cosgrove 1:07:44 Jeffrey Shirer 1:09:41 Lolita Jackson 1:11:44 Keating Crown 1:13:38 Darlene Liveoak 1:15:22 Skoczkowie 1:18:55 Rozdział IV: Nowy Początek 1:23:03 Polityczne, Społeczne i Ekonomiczne skutki 1:27:13 Rewanż 1:29:44 Zakończenie Części I 1:30:40 Część II: Teoria. Rozdział I: Źródło 1:35:50 Rozdział II: Labirynt. Teoria: Jak to możliwe, że garstka ludzi rzuciła USA na kolana 1:37:09 Teoria: Kim był jakiś Osama Bin Laden 1:46:25 Teoria: Samoloty widać było na radarach, ale nie reagowano 1:51:17 Teoria: Jak stalowy budynek mógł się zawalić po uderzeniu samolotu? 1:54:31 Teoria: Wieżę zawaliły się w podejrzany sposób 1:58:35 Teoria: Kłęby pyłu sugerujące wybuch 2:00:49 Teoria: WTC7 : Budynek, który się zawalił, a w który nie uderzył samolot 2:05:57 Teoria: W Pentagon nie wleciał samolot, ale coś innego 2:12:12 Teoria: Niejasny los Lotu 93 2:17:54 Teoria: Wysoko postawieni wiedzieli, że coś się dzieje 2:24:52 Teoria: Agencje rządowe wiedziały, że coś się dzieje, ale celowo czekały 2:28:46 Teoria: Stoją za tym rząd i armia, działające na rozkaz Busha 2:30:50 Teoria: Giełda wiedziała 2:35:09 Rozdział 3: Wyjątkowi 2:40:55 Zakończenie 2:42:04 Outro 2:43:04 Patroni 2:44:18 Ciekawostka Patroni: https://pastebin.com/3sWrzXgf Dziękuję! 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"I am interested in what facts informed your viewpoint." -- Commander Lippold October 12, 2000 the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole while refueling at port in  marked an impotant line in the way the Unites States deals with terrorists.  All terrorism is state sponsored. Therefor, we have to respond differently to protect the United States of America. Commander Kirk Lippold was in charge that day.  His leadership that day is proven by the fact that the USS Cole is still in service to our Country today.  That vessel should have sunk.  It was the leadership, training, honor and courage of the Crew that saved the USS Cole.   Commander Lippold wrote a fantastic book, Front Burner Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole. And it is an important read for everyone, especially Americans.  In a world full of indoctrination, falsehoods, failed leadership and divisiveness; We the People must take the responsibility to inform ourselves, think empathically and take action.   I am grateful to share this conversation with a man of Honor who lives his life with dignity and in service to others-- Thank you Commander Lippold.

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In this episode of the U.S. Navy History Podcast, hosts Dale the Captain and Christophe the Unflappable XO discuss the historical events surrounding the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Starting with the recognition of Hawaiian independence in 1846, they delve into the key events leading up to the coup in 1893, supported by American business interests and military intervention, which resulted in the deposition of Queen Liliuokalani. They explore the subsequent political maneuvers, including President Cleveland's investigation and the eventual annexation of Hawaii by the United States in 1898. The episode also briefly touches on the Second Samoan Civil War and previews upcoming discussions on the Banana Wars. The episode concludes by honoring Engineman Second Class Mark Ian Nito, a Navy sailor who sacrificed his life in the attack on the USS Cole. usnavyhistorypodcast@gmail.com @usnhistorypod ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Ships Store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hero Cards⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Grateful Nation Project — Hero Cards⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠navy-cycling.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: The GrassRoots TruthCast, created by former Escambia County Florida Commissioner Gene Valentino, is a weekly broadcast from Pensacola, Florida. Gene, an investment entrepreneur and avid pilot, is a founding member of VeriJet charter aviation and serves on the company's Board of Directors. When he's not in studio, Gene can usually be found in the skies over the Gulf of Mexico piloting his ICON A5. Twitter: @GeneValentino GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: His military career in special operations encompass leading teams in high threat environments on multiple warfronts. Jimmy began active-duty service as a United States Marine assisting in the recovery of victims at the USS Cole, and fighting the war on terrorism. He transitioned to private military contracting and held multiple leadership positions in Blackwater USA as a GS-13 for the Department of State mission. He enlisted into the United States Navy to become a Navy SEAL and graduated BUDS Class 283. Jimmy held multiple designations as a Naval Special Warfare Operator. He is the recipient of several military decorations and medals to include the Blackwater Silver Defense Medal for heroism. Jimmy holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership from the University of Charleston, West Virginia. He retired in 2017 and held multiple senior executive leadership positions at Team McAfee culminating his time as President of Team McAfee. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Lt. Randy Sutton (Ret.) | Founder of The Wounded Blue and Former Law Enforcement Veteran. 

Don't miss our newsletter! Mike and Jake host Captain John Konrad to talk all things Merchant Marine. We talked about the Merchant Marine Academy, being a merchant mariner, and how they fit into national security. What is the Military Sealift Command thing, and why does it keep confusing the counting of Navy ships? What is the Jones Act, and why is it so political? The US has a ghost fleet of ships staged on both US coasts in case WWIII kicks off—but where are the people? Who were the most famous merchant mariners? What went wrong with the USS Bonhomme Richard fire response? Why is Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge still not cleaned up? Which US military branch is the biggest merchant mariner customer? Hint….its NOT the Navy. Tune in for answers to all of the above—and more! John is the founder and CEO of gCaptain and author of Fire on The Horizon. He is licensed to captain the world's largest ships, has sailed from ports worldwide, and managed billion-dollar offshore construction projects in some of the world's harshest marine environments. This episode is PACKED with intel, but we still had some fun along the way. You should expect nothing less! For those interested in #military #navy #mariner #sealift #warfare #shipping #nationalsecurity #defense #nationaldefense   ----   Links • Sign up for our ⁠amazing newsletter⁠! • Support us on ⁠Patreon⁠! • Mike Benitez (LinkedIn) • Jake Chapman X (@vc) • John Konrad X (@johnkonrad) • gCaptain newsletter • Fourth Arm of Defense (free book!)   ----   Follow us on... • ⁠Instagram⁠ • ⁠Facebook⁠ • ⁠X (Twitter)⁠ • ⁠LinkedIn⁠ • ⁠Website⁠   ----   Show Notes (01:21) Intro (03:01) larger than aircraft carriers (04:15) Military Sealift Command (05:30) peacetime vs wartime (06:18) WWII merchant mariners (09:54) counting ships (10:58) US-flagged ships (11:25) Captain Phillips (11:48) the shift away from US flags (12:17) 85 of 50,000 ships (13:10) The Jones Act (14:57) railway to nowhere (18:02) where are the people? (20:28) Secretary Pete (21:00) manning crisis (23:59) 3,000 people short (25:56) WWIII (27:46) divested support ships (28:58) USS Cole attack (29:51) USS Bonhomme Richard fire (31:19) Baltimore bridge cleanup (32:33) USNS ship shortages (33:28) no support, no projection (34:26) the Air Force!?! (35:06) the miracle of shipping containers (35:50) Vietnam logistics log jam (37:20) famous merchant mariners (39:30) sea story time! (42:27) outro

In this conversation, counterterrorism expert Mark Fallon discusses the evolution of interrogation techniques and the importance of building rapport in obtaining accurate and reliable information. Fallon provides insight from his experience in high-profile terrorism investigations including the USS Cole and World Trade Center bombings as well as interrogations at Guantanamo. He highlights the shift from confession-driven methodologies to relationship building techniques, emphasizing the role of empathy in high-pressure interrogations. Fallon also addresses the need for improved interview training in law enforcement and the recognition of inept practices that have led to miscarriages of justice. Overall, the conversation emphasizes the importance of effective and ethical interrogation practices in obtaining actionable intelligence. This conversation explores the consequences of interrogational abuses, the opposition to coercive methods, the need for research in interrogation, the importance of depressurizing the interrogation environment, and the integration of science into practice.   Truths Building rapport and treating suspects with respect is essential in obtaining accurate and reliable information during interrogations. Empathy is a crucial trait for interrogators, as it helps to establish trust and disarm resistance strategies. The shift from confession-driven methodologies to relationship building techniques has proven to be more effective in obtaining actionable intelligence. Law enforcement agencies need to prioritize interview training and embrace the body of research available in the psychological sciences to improve interrogation practices. Interrogational abuses can lead to unreliable information and intelligence. Opposing coercive methods is essential to protect human rights and uphold the constitution. Research plays a crucial role in improving interrogation practices. Depressurizing the interrogation environment can lead to more effective and truthful information. Integrating scientific knowledge into interrogation training can enhance effectiveness. Policing with virtue is a step towards community-embraced policing.

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Following the 2020 devastating explosion in Beirut, project manager Kevin Gemayel's journey is nothing short of inspiring as he tackled challenges head-on. Hear firsthand accounts of his experiences during the blast, his strategies for managing tasks, stakeholders, budgets, and time, and the invaluable lessons learned. We discover Kevin's extraordinary project and the power of resilience in the face of adversity. Table of Contents 04:27 … Meet Kevin05:30 … Kevin's Story of the Tragedy07:25 … Gathering a Team08:18 … The Family Façade Business09:44 … Deciding How to Prioritize13:34 … An Emergency Response15:33 … Resources and Supplies16:47 … An Economic Crisis20:08 … Personal Impact21:36 … Keeping a Team Motivated22:38 … Ren Love's Projects from the Past25:00 … Planning Time Management and Strategy28:21 … Creative Problem-Solving29:31 … Kevin's Lessons Learned31:08 … Personal Growth Through Tragedy34:57 … Looking Back36:37 … Advice to Younger PMs38:46 … Contact Kevin39:59 … Closing KEVIN GEMAYEL: … in leadership, they say you should become a leader and personally lead yourself before leading anyone else.  And I would advise every project manager to learn and to focus on how they should lead themselves before going out there and leading projects and people and teams because, when they do things right themselves, … they will be able to influence the people they are working with.  …  So don't just focus on books and numbers and theoretical things.  Focus on yourself, as well. WENDY GROUNDS:  You're listening to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers.  My name is Wendy Grounds, and with me in the studio is Bill Yates.  We want to feature some younger talent in the project management community.  We're calling it our Rising Talent series.  So for the next two episodes we're going to be sharing the stories of two young project managers who are not only inspirational, but they're also making waves with their incredible contributions to the field.  Now, we have spoken to some young project managers in the past. BILL YATES:  Yeah, Episode 165 we had a great conversation with Kat Shane.  You may recall she had a startup company that she began at the University of Georgia, and it was working on a solution to help people, governments, and businesses figure out what products or packaging are locally recyclable.  So, can I recycle this?  And how to get them where they needed to go. WENDY GROUNDS:  We also spoke to Christelle Kwizera.  That was Episode 146.  At the age of 20, Christelle founded Water Access Rwanda, which was in response to the dangerous conditions Rwandans would face when collecting water from rivers and dams.  She was quite an incredible young lady. BILL YATES:  What a story.  So inspirational and so young. WENDY GROUNDS:  Yes, yes.  She was also a PMI Future 50 2021 honoree.  And the folk that we're talking to in these two episodes are also Future 50 2023 honorees from PMI.  We are really enjoying featuring younger talent in the project management community.  The first one is our guest, Kevin. BILL YATES:  Yeah, this is a heavy story, this conversation we'll have with Kevin.  It's heavy.  It's about the blast in Beirut.  And many people lost their lives, and many people who survived it will be dealing with it for a lifetime.  So, we wanted to recognize that.  But there are so many powerful lessons for us to learn from that, and to hear from Kevin. And we've tackled these kinds of topics before.  We spoke with Matthew Harper about the attack on the USS Cole and the lessons learned from that.  Peter Baines joined us from Australia.  He led international identification teams after tsunamis or terrorist attacks.  So, he's talked with us about that.  And of course, Chuck Casto, that story was so engaging, looking at the Fukushima disaster and the 11 months that he spent onsite after the accident,

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Basil Valentine is a TNT political Editor. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Jay Dyer is a TV Presenter and Author known for his work on Esoteric Hollywood. You can find more about him at jaysanalysis.com and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@JayDyer. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Jimmy Watson's military career in special operations encompass leading teams in high threat environments on multiple warfronts. Jimmy began active-duty service as a United States Marine assisting in the recovery of victims at the USS Cole, and fighting the war on terrorism. He transitioned to private military contracting and held multiple leadership positions in Blackwater USA as a GS-13 for the Department of State mission. He enlisted into the United States Navy to become a Navy SEAL and graduated BUDS Class 283. Jimmy held multiple designations as a Naval Special Warfare Operator. He is the recipient of several military decorations and medals to include the Blackwater Silver Defense Medal for heroism. Jimmy holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership from the University of Charleston, West Virginia. He retired in 2017 and held multiple senior executive leadership positions at Team McAfee culminating his time as President of Team McAfee.

Welcome to another episode, the seventy-fifth, of the Lessons from the Cockpit show! I am your host Mark Hasara and for over 60 years my passion has been aviation. The situation in the Red Sea and Gulf of Adan has everyone's attention. It's the continuation of the Proxy War between western powers and the Ayatollahs of Iran and their influence with the Houthi Rebels in Yemen, attacking shipping in one of the largest and wealthiest waterways on the planet. America and our allies have been here before, sometimes with tragic results. The USS Cole was nearly sunk in the Yemeni harbor of Adan after an al Qaeda suicide boat rammed into it. The weapons used are now much more sophisticated and supplied by other US enemies. But we are more prepared in my opinion to fight and win a maritime conflict in this region, which this episode discusses. This episode is financially supported by the book Tanker Pilot, found in all four formats; hardback, softback, Kindle, and Audible on Amazon. The Hardback, Kindle and Audible formats contain the 32 pictures in color, the softback in black and white. Tanker Pilot gives readers a behind the scenes look at global air refueling and air operations in four wars. The Lessons from the Cockpit show is sponsored by Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. Wall Pilot creates profile views of famous aircraft, printed on vinyl in four, six, and eight foot lengths you can peel off and stick to any flat surface. Wall Pilot can also create custom graphics of your favorite airplanes with your name, tail codes and numbers, and cool weapons loads. Support the Lessons from the Cockpit show by ordering one or two of these very detailed prints for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. We did a thirty foot long profile for one customer and his hanger! US and Coalition forces recently struck Houthi targets in Yemen. The Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has four F-18 Super Hornet squadrons in its air wing. This F-18F Super Hornet from VFA-103 represents the 22 Super Hornets involved in the air strikes in Yemen. The strike packages were supported with electronic intelligence by the RC-135 Rivet Joint signals collection and intelligence aircraft of the US Air Force. This print is an RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft assigned to the 343rd Reconnaissance Squadron of the 55th Reconnaissance Wing, Offutt Air Force base Nebraska. F-15E Strike Eagles from Royal Air Force Lakenheath England have deployed to the region when Iran tried to close down shipping going through the Straight of Hormuz. This F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter Squadron is configured for the Maritime Air Support or MAS mission to interdict and destroy enemy surface ships using Laser and GPS guided weapons. The Panthers Strike Eagles carried the AN-ASQ-236 Dragon Eye pod on the centerline as this graphic depicts. Unmanned and remotely piloted vehicles have played a huge role in the Horn of Africa, combating terrorism and piracy on the high seas. This MQ-9 Reaper drone armed with GBU-12 500 pound laser-guided bombs and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles is assigned to the 867th Attack Squadron of the 432nd Wing based out of Creech Air Base north of Las Vegas Nevada. MQ-9 Reapers are the type of drones operating out of Djibouti and Chadbelli airports in the Horn of Africa. Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit show. This and previous episodes can be found on the Lessons from the Cockpit website. Every lesson learned today becomes the foundation for tomorrow's breakthroughs and your stories fuel our mission! We are always looking for guests with compelling aviation stories and terrific lessons learned from those experiences. Contact us through the website and lets talk about you becoming a guest on the show. We want to hear your lessons learned and leave a legacy of wisdom for future generations of aviation enthusiasts.

Welcome to another episode, the seventy-fifth, of the Lessons from the Cockpit show! I am your host Mark Hasara and for over 60 years my passion has been aviation. The situation in the Red Sea and Gulf of Adan has everyone's attention. It's the continuation of the Proxy War between western powers and the Ayatollahs of Iran and their influence with the Houthi Rebels in Yemen, attacking shipping in one of the largest and wealthiest waterways on the planet. America and our allies have been here before, sometimes with tragic results. The USS Cole was nearly sunk in the Yemeni haror of Adan after an al Qaeda suicide boat rammed into it. The weapons used are now much more sophisticated and supplied by other US enemies. But we are more prepared in my opinion to fight and win a maritime conflict in this region, which this episode discusses. This episode is finanicially supported by the book Tanker Pilot, found in all four formats; hardback, softback, Kindle, and Audible on Amazon. The Hardbback, Kindle and Audible formats contain the 32 pictures in color, the softback in black and white. Tanker Pilot gives readers a behind the scenes look at global air refueling and air operations in four wars. The Lessons from the Cockpit show is sponsored by Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. Wall Pilot creates profile views of famous aircraft, printed on vinyl in four, six, and eight foot lengths you can peel off and stick to any flat surface. Wall Pilot can also create custom graphics of your favorite airplanes with your name, tail codes and numbers, and cool weapons loads. Support the Lessons from the Cockpit show by ordering one or two of these very detailed prints for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. We did a thrity foot long profile for one customer and his hanger! US and Coalition forces recently struck Houthi targets in Yemen. The Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has four F-18 Super Hornet squadrons in its air wing. This F-18F Super Hornet from VFA-103 represents the 22 Super Hornets involved in the air strikes in Yemen. The strike packages were supported with electronic intelligence by the RC-135 Rivet Joint signals collection and intelligence aircraft of the US Air Force. This print is an RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft assigned to the 343rd Reconnaissance Squadron of the 55th Reconnaissance Wing, Offutt Air Force base Nebraska. F-15E Strike Eagles from Royal Air Force Lakenheath England have deployed to the region when Iran tried to close down shipping going through the Straight of Hormuz. This F-15E Strike Eagle from the 494th Fighter Squadron is configured for the Maritime Air Support or MAS mission to interdict and destroy enemy surface ships using Laser and GPS guided weapons. The Panthers Strike Eagles carried the AN-ASQ-236 Dragon Eye pod on the centerline as this graphic depicts. Unmanned and remotely piloted vehicles have played a huge role in the Horn of Africa, combating terrorism and piracy on the high seas. This MQ-9 Reaper drone armed with GBU-12 500 pound laser-guided bombs and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles is assigned to the 867th Attack Squadron of the 432nd Wing absed out of Creech Air Base north of Las Vegas Nevada. MQ-9 Reapers are the type of drones operating out of Djibouti and Chadbelli airports in the Horn of Africa. Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the Lesons from the Cockpit show. This and previous episodes can be found on the Lessons from the Cockpit website. Every lesson learned today becomes the foundation for tomorrow's breakthroughs and your stories fuel our mission! We are always looking for guests with compelling aviation stories and terrific lessons learned from those experiences. Contact us through the website and lets talk about you becoming a guest on the show. We want to hear your lessons learned and leave a legacy of wisdom for future generations of aviation enthusists.   

The U.S. is leading a new international task force in the Middle East to confront threats to commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Nearly every day since the start of the Israel-Gaza War, oil tankers and cargo ships have been fired at by the Houthi rebels, an extremist group backed by Iran. Retired Navy Commander Kirk Lippold joins the Rundown to discuss the supply chain disruptions caused by the terror attacks and how the U.S. task force is working to ensure maritime safety. The former USS Cole commander also looks back at the 2000 bombing that killed 17 U.S. Navy sailors. What does privacy in the age of the internet look like? A few teachers in the United States are grappling with this question after being suspended or fired for posting private adult content on the website 'OnlyFans,' where users paid them to access their pictures or videos. However, there are many questions surrounding situations like these -- where employees, in this case teachers, are being punished for things done in their personal lives that aren't considered illegal, but could be disapproved of. On the Rundown, Employment Law Attorney Derek J. Demeri explains how much say an employer has when it comes to what an employee does in their free time and how it may impact their profession. He also discusses how often people turn to making adult content to produce a second income and the role that privacy law precedence plays in cases like these. Plus, commentary from comedian and FOX News contributor Tom Shillue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. is leading a new international task force in the Middle East to confront threats to commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Nearly every day since the start of the Israel-Gaza War, oil tankers and cargo ships have been fired at by the Houthi rebels, an extremist group backed by Iran. Retired Navy Commander Kirk Lippold joins the Rundown to discuss the supply chain disruptions caused by the terror attacks and how the U.S. task force is working to ensure maritime safety. The former USS Cole commander also looks back at the 2000 bombing that killed 17 U.S. Navy sailors. What does privacy in the age of the internet look like? A few teachers in the United States are grappling with this question after being suspended or fired for posting private adult content on the website 'OnlyFans,' where users paid them to access their pictures or videos. However, there are many questions surrounding situations like these -- where employees, in this case teachers, are being punished for things done in their personal lives that aren't considered illegal, but could be disapproved of. On the Rundown, Employment Law Attorney Derek J. Demeri explains how much say an employer has when it comes to what an employee does in their free time and how it may impact their profession. He also discusses how often people turn to making adult content to produce a second income and the role that privacy law precedence plays in cases like these. Plus, commentary from comedian and FOX News contributor Tom Shillue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. is leading a new international task force in the Middle East to confront threats to commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Nearly every day since the start of the Israel-Gaza War, oil tankers and cargo ships have been fired at by the Houthi rebels, an extremist group backed by Iran. Retired Navy Commander Kirk Lippold joins the Rundown to discuss the supply chain disruptions caused by the terror attacks and how the U.S. task force is working to ensure maritime safety. The former USS Cole commander also looks back at the 2000 bombing that killed 17 U.S. Navy sailors. What does privacy in the age of the internet look like? A few teachers in the United States are grappling with this question after being suspended or fired for posting private adult content on the website 'OnlyFans,' where users paid them to access their pictures or videos. However, there are many questions surrounding situations like these -- where employees, in this case teachers, are being punished for things done in their personal lives that aren't considered illegal, but could be disapproved of. On the Rundown, Employment Law Attorney Derek J. Demeri explains how much say an employer has when it comes to what an employee does in their free time and how it may impact their profession. He also discusses how often people turn to making adult content to produce a second income and the role that privacy law precedence plays in cases like these. Plus, commentary from comedian and FOX News contributor Tom Shillue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show Notes and Transcript Retired CIA officer Sam Faddis is a regular security expert on War Room and he joins Hearts of Oak to look at the terror threat within the US.  His Substack goes in depth on the many hazards that we face externally and we pick up on some of his recent articles.  We start by looking at open borders and why the establishment won't cut off illegal immigration.  The US have endured an onslaught of unknown individuals, when a country is not able to know who is within its borders then it has no idea what perils it faces internally.  It is a dangerous situation that America finds itself in.  Sam shows us why and how the FBI has spent its time focusing on groups like Moms for Liberty which seems like political targeting and is quite simply illegal.  Then we move onto looking at how the situation in Israel could affect the US before finishing on how China has imbedded itself into the establishment and throughout the system. Sam Faddis is a Retired CIA Operations Officer. Served in Near East and South Asia. Author, commentator. Senior Editor AND Magazine. Public Speaker. Host of Ground Truth. Connect with Sam... X                   https://x.com/RealSamFaddis?s=20 GETTR          https://gettr.com/user/samfaddis SUBSTACK   https://substack.com/profile/28080362-sam-faddis                       https://andmagazine.substack.com/                       https://andmagazine.substack.com/s/ground-truth Interview recorded 28.11.23 Audio Podcast version available on Podbean and all major podcast directories...  ⁣https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ Transcript available on our Substack...https://heartsofoak.substack.com/ To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ Transcript (Hearts of Oak) It's wonderful to have you with us. Thank you so much for your time today. (Sam Faddis) Thank you for having me, appreciate it.  Not all, I've enjoyed your many times on War Room and maybe we'll touch on that before we get on to everything else. But obviously people can find you @RealSamFaddis on Twitter, @ANDMagazine also. And I think Substack certainly, what I enjoy is andmagazine.substack.com. Everything is in the description. And I think that's where you put a lot of your longer pieces. So if people enjoy the Twitter, they can jump on and look at the Substack. And of course, Sam, you're a retired CIA officer, served in Near East and South Asia, author, commentator, and of course, senior editor of AND Magazine. And certainly for me, as maybe for many others, what often happens, people coming on Steve Bannon's War Room, it opens a window. Maybe we can just touch on that. It's always fun to ask people how they ended up being on War Room and they will jump on, I think, a lot of the threats, the terror threats currently inside the US. So, what about yourself? How did you end up being on War Room? Yeah, I don't... I think my contact with Steve goes back to when he and Jack Maxey were still working together. And we got particularly deeply involved regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story, because when they got a hold of a copy of the hard drive, one of the first things they wanted to do was make sure that they weren't being played, that this was in fact, something real, they weren't going to run with it. And, you know, they were more than happy to run with it if it was real and authentic, which it is, but they wanted to do their homework first. So they called me in as an old, CIA operator to take a look at this thing and say, Hey, do you think this thing's real? Or is there anything to this accusation that it's Russian disinformation? And after about, I mean, I spent the whole night down, I showed up in DC one night and spent the whole night down in a townhouse in Capitol Hill with those guys going through it. But I can tell you that it took me about five minutes to be able to tell them. It is impossible for somebody to have faked this thing. That's completely ludicrous. If you came to me when I was operating and said, do this to somebody else, I would have said. No can do, man. I mean, can I make up a fake laptop? Yeah. Will it stand more than about five minutes scrutiny from an adversary who knows what they're doing? No, it will not. It will be obvious for a million reasons. And we've obviously delved into that with Miranda Devine, laptop from hell, Garrett Ziegler on a number of times and and as a huge and you wonder why the media don't wake up to that fact. But that and many, many others. But of course your background, CIA background, that intelligence side, and on your Substack lots of really interesting articles and I think for me it's the concern about the terror threat within the U.S. We talk a lot about what's happening externally. But really the big concern I have looking across the water and we have in the UK, having open borders is the terror threat within here in the UK, as you're concerned over there in the States. And maybe look at the border, because one of your recent Substack posts was the trade in asylum seekers, why the establishment won't cut off illegal immigration. And the issue of open border means the opposite of a purpose of government, isn't it? A government should be closing the borders, protecting its citizens, and this administration seems to want the opposite. So, what are your thoughts as you look on that open border policy? Well, as you well know, given your trade, you know, language can either be used to illuminate or obfuscate. We spend a lot of time listening to this administration use language to obfuscate, to dance around, to pretend, let's just be clear. This administration's policy is open borders. That's the Biden administration's policy is we don't have a border. So nobody in Congress changed the law. Nobody legislated that. The American people didn't decide that. These guys just basically decided, without ever admitting so, that they will not enforce the existing law. If you show up at the border, you're processed, you're handed a notice to appear for a hearing, which may be five to 10 years in the future, and you're cut loose. Actually, you're probably transported onto your onward destination like Chicago or New York. Once you have that hearing notice in hand, by the way, if anybody stops you, you just tell them you're waiting for your hearing. It in fact functions as a permit. In fact, the illegals refer to it as a permit. So that's our policy and we don't, there's no magic database to check these people. We have no idea who they are. We have no idea if the documents they're carrying, if any, are real. So anybody and everybody can walk into the United States. So why? Well, I mean, ideologically, a lot of these people frankly don't believe we have a right to control our borders. But there's also just a lot of money here, right? I mean, there's a huge garment industry as an example in Southern, California around Los Angeles, actually a large number of clothes a large amount of clothing that's made in the United States. It's all made by illegals. I mean if you walked into a shop and there's 300 people in the room and you found one of them who actually had legal documentation to be in the United States. You'd probably die of shock. Everybody knows that. You go to Alabama chicken processing plants for folks to stand on their feet for 10 or 12 hours a day and they gut and pluck chickens not exactly pleasant work. I've done a little bit of it once upon a time. Okay Who does that? Again, if there's 600 people in the plant and you found one that actually has permission to be in the United States and be working. You'd be stunned. So what we have I could go on obviously, I mean you get the point, there's a lot of folks here who are pretending like somehow they're welcoming the poor of the planet and doing something philanthropic. That's not what's happening. They're making a boatload of money. In the article that you referenced, we talked about how, for instance, in New York State, they actually run a state website where employers can go on the website and advertise jobs and that's specifically marketed to illegals. Now, they don't use that terminology, illegals, but that's what it is. It is a state-run website to match up employers with folks who will, again, when it's all said and done, they will work off the books for less than minimum wage. And none of these guys are gonna complain about workplace safety. I mean, if you think about it, it's kind of sick. Here's the Democratic Party pushes this, supposedly the party of the working man. This is a war on American working men and women. It's none of these pesky unions, man. We're gonna deal with folks that are about one step above slaves. Yeah and I get that and that was a conversation I had in the Brexit debate in the UK talking to voters and you talk to small businesses and they wanted cheap labour, they want a free movement of people and I get the economic argument on that but then you move over on to the security issue and just because you let someone in for, they can cheap labour, if you're not checking who that person is, then you have no idea who is in the country. And it surprises me why, you're on a scale well above what the UK is on, but it surprises me why the media and politicians don't really call this out for what it is, which is a massive security risk for the US. Without question. I mean, first of all, people talk in terms of checking names against databases. Okay, so first of all, let's just assume that happens. What database? I mean, a database consists is only as good as the data that goes into it. What's the premise there? We have a magic database with the names of all the members of Al Qaeda and Hezbollah and Hamas in it. There is no such database. The guy's name is the name of John Smith, something generic. Born in some village nobody ever heard of in Pakistan, okay? You know what you're gonna find? You're gonna find there's no data in your laptop. Does that mean that he's good? It doesn't mean anything. That's, by the way, assuming he's actually telling you his real name. Hezbollah is an example. Hezbollah has a longstanding relationship with Venezuela. They are very serious boys. I've worked against them all over the planet. They plan years and years in advance, they're very meticulous. They don't show up one day and say, let's blow something up. They flip a switch on and off that they've been working for five years. Pre-positioned explosives, case targets, all this. They have a relationship with Venezuela. Venezuela gives them full sets of false identity documents, passport, driver's license, etc., backstopped by the Venezuelan government. Meaning if you ask the Venezuelans, is this guy Jose one of yours? They'll say yes because they gave him the docks as part of their deal. Number one group of people coming out of Central and South America into the United States right now Venezuelans. That is not me saying obviously that every Venezuelan walking into the United States is a terrorist, I'm just saying when you have a flood of people like that and you know you have this capability. It's the simplest thing in the world to insert into that stream guys who are operatives and we have no capacity for detecting them and we have caught them on U.S. soil before. Where they have been here for years and years and years working targets, New York City, Washington DC, Chicago. So yeah, there's a clock ticking out there someplace. Isn't there? It's just you know I mean, when stuff starts to blow up, is there really anybody with a straight face is going to turn around and say, wow, that was unforeseeable, I'm shocked. We're just waiting for it now.  Well, I mean, your time working abroad with the CIA and you're dealing with, countries and individuals and situations which you wouldn't expect to find at home, and I've talked to other people working in the field at different ops. And I think the assumption was, and I assume the assumption is that the intelligence services abroad for the US that, you know, there is trust in what happens back home. There is trust in the borders, in the systems, and you're doing what you do abroad because you know you've got the backing of the US, but also, you know, there's protection there in the US and that's not even touching on the military. Is just touching on the institutions and the border. And if that's no longer there, then kind of you wonder, what is the point of intelligence abroad whenever there's no kind of backstop there back in the US? Yeah, there is no point. I mean, again, this is what I think people need to understand, and they don't, and maybe on some level, they don't want to, right? Because the enormity, first of all, it's staggering and hard to get your head around. But also, you kind of just don't want to face this reality because it's very unpleasant. We don't have a border in the United States functionally. I mean, we have guys that process illegals and then put them on buses and send them to Chicago. We've turned border patrol into welcome wagon, but we don't, we don't, our defences are down. I mean, you're living in a house in a bad neighbourhood and the doors are unlocked and the windows are open and nobody's paying attention. So is it hard to predict what will happen? It will not right now, look at what's happening in the middle East. I mean, you could send intelligence message after intelligence message out of the Middle East from a CIA station, saying everybody and his brother is planning on blowing stuff up all across the United States. Nobody's gonna react to it, nobody's gonna do anything about it. They have politically decided to ignore it. And God willing, somehow miraculously, this will not happen, but I don't see how we will avoid it. People are going to die. We are going to get hit again. And people should keep in mind that when 9-11 happened. Al-Qaeda, just as an example, they never conceived of that as the end of anything, nor did they conceive of that as the worst they could do. So they have never, and many of the other groups, never given up their ambitions for biological, chemical, nuclear, radiological attacks. So as horrible as 9-11 was, what you could see would potentially be much, much worse than that. What do you think as someone who is working abroad on the field, seeing obviously what's happened with not only Afghanistan, but then you mentioned the threat of Iran not being neutralised and that being left to fester and grow and continue to be a threat. And I guess, and it's not, it is one way pointing the finger at the Democrats because of what has happened, but maybe other administrations haven't maybe dealt with that threat either. Does that make any sense or is that on the ball? No, it makes no sense at all. And again, yeah, I'm not going to try to lay all of the issues here squarely and purely at the foot of the Biden administration. Not that they don't. Not that they are working overtime to mess things up. But yeah, we've made mistakes in regard to Iran as an example for a really long time. I mean, look, I've worked with a lot of Iranians, Iranian patriots over the years who are fighting for freedom in their country. I got nothing but respect for the Iranian people, Persian culture, Persian history. But the boys that are in charge in Tehran the IRGC and the ayatollahs are psychos. I mean they they they have an expressly apocalyptic view of history. They believe these are the end times literally in the way, somebody who's a true believer in the literal word of the Bible might believe these are the end times. That's a reality. That's not, that's not a metaphor. These are the end times. The Mahdi, who they regard as an Islamic superman prophet, is about to come back. And there's going to be a giant, fiery end to the world, and they emerge as the winners, and you're all either with them or you're gone. So that's the way they look at the world. Now, these guys have been on a course to acquire nuclear weapons for decades now. Their nuclear program exists for one purpose, for nuclear weapons. Everything else is garbage, just dispense with the nonsense. We keep reading things like, you know, the latest I read was an assessment that's now seven months old that said we think the Iranians are 12 days from having a nuke. Okay, so I'm not a math genius, but I'm pretty sure that if it's been seven months and you told me they were 12 days away. That by this point you should assume they have a nuclear weapon and anybody who thinks that our intelligence collection is so good, that we will know for sure in advance. That they're about to acquire it is living in dreamland. Not true but nobody will know that. Even the Israelis who have a really robust, they basically, you live in a world right now where you could wake up tomorrow and realize not just that they just got the bomb, but they have had the bomb for some period of time. So, I mean, a nuclear Iran that can actually vaporize Tel Aviv, that's the end of peace in the Middle East. You just set that whole region on fire. The Israelis will not live with that. What are we doing? We're shipping billions of dollars to the Ayatollahs. That's what we've been doing under this administration. We've been ransoming hostages. Look at the situation in Afghanistan. I mean, Biden wants everybody to forget about it because politically it's a disaster. All right, let's get down to the real implications. It's a terrorist super state. It's a safe haven for Al Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is at least as strong as they've ever been, and now they have a much more powerful, secure foundation. The Taliban is waging war to topple the government in Islamabad next door. Maybe you don't care about the Pakistanis. They happen to have about 200 functional nuclear weapons, plus the means to deliver them. So if Islamabad falls, that means all of a sudden Al-Qaeda and Taliban are one of the top nuclear powers on the planet. That's kind of a big deal. Somebody ought to be paying attention to that. We can't let that happen, yet we are doing nothing to stop it. I mean tell, because one of the other articles was standby for another intelligence failure. I think it's the most recent one. Joe does not in his terror threat here at home escalates. And on that you touch on what's happening in Israel and you touch on Iran. I mean, how does that affect? Because America has never been weaker militarily and from a completely civilian point of view seems to never have been at a weaker place in regards to intelligence. Where does that leave America with what is currently happening in the Middle East? Well, it leaves us functionally blind, and I think there are probably two sides to that coin. One is the part where you give warning to the policy makers, to the politicians, and it doesn't happen to fit with their agenda, so they ignore you. We did a lot of this in the run-up to 9-11, which is not to say we had specific information on that plot, but it wasn't exactly a secret to anybody working the target that they're serious and they're coming for us. By the way, they already blew up two of our embassies, tried to take down the World Trade Center once before, and almost sank the USS Cole in Yemen. So for real, guys, they're coming. That didn't fit with Bill Clinton's peace dividend agenda. And we're now at the end of times, and it's every kinder, gentler planet. And the Bush administration didn't seem particularly focused on it before 9-11. So I did a lot of that. I was involved with a lot of that, and as was my wife, who's also a retired agency officer, as were any number of our friends. It's not just me. A whole bunch of guys over a whole bunch of years saying, we better go take care of this Bin Laden guy before something really catastrophic happens and it's ignored. And the second part is just a decrease in collection capability. And we absolutely do not have the collection capability we need. Anybody, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban and they got billions of dollars worth of our gear and the international community, including the United States keeps sending them money, calling it humanitarian funding. Anybody who thinks they're using that to buy baby formula is on drugs. So, and you've got every group in the world, including Al-Qaeda back there with, training camps and a completely safe platform from which to plan, train, and launch attack. What if, I don't under anybody who thinks we have any collection capability on the ground in Afghanistan at this point that's worth anything. Again is in dreamland. I mean you can take pictures of it from space and you can listen to, you can surf the internet and intercept email messages. You know, it took us ten years to find Bin Laden because he didn't use the internet and he didn't use a cell phone He recognized the capacity. He ran an entire worldwide outfit for 10 years after we took Afghanistan. Took us 10 years to find him. Why? Because he understood our technical capability, and he knew we didn't have the sources we needed to find him. So we don't have robust, we have essentially no capability in Afghanistan. We have no idea what they're plotting, what they're planning, how many attacks are being hatched over there.  And when I've talked to friends, background intelligence, it's all about assets and having people on the ground and that information. Is it simply with the move, the technological move? Is it that the focus is we can now do everything with technology and the hard work on the ground is simply ignored? Is that maybe the focus of politicians? The focus of politicians is also, unfortunately, the focus of too many people inside the intelligence community, right? I mean, one of the things the United States, just to stick with us as an example, that we do pretty well is allocate money, buy stuff, build buildings, fill them with people looking at flat screen computer monitors, doing PowerPoint presentations, generate a lot of this stuff, build a machine that flies around in space and sucks up signals. Okay, now espionage is not at all like that. Espionage is weird, arcane, old art, really realistically probably hasn't changed for thousands of years, meaningfully, because it's all about human nature. So as long as people are people, it's going to be the same thing. You need this very eclectic group of individuals, often drawn from a whole bunch of very disparate backgrounds, kind of people who in another lifetime would be stealing the crown jewels, who aren't very comfortable colouring within the lines all the time, but they have enough self-control to not go totally off the reservation, if you will. In other words, they'll do it for a good cause. And then you got to train them really well, and then you got to season them really well. Like you got, I mean, when I showed up at my first field station, it was more or less an attitude like, yeah, you go make like 500 asset meetings, and then we might let you talk in the morning meeting when we all get together. Because right now, you know so little, you don't even know what you don't know. And then you got to trust instincts. It's got to be a very flat, nimble organization. If I'm talking to a source in Turkey, and I got an opportunity to do something inside Iran, we need to exploit that opportunity really fast. I don't mean like I should have carte blanche to just do whatever the hell I want, but I just, we got to move. We got a window of opportunity. We got, let's go. I can't send that message back to headquarters and wait six months while they go through 27 levels of review and committees of people who've never been overseas discuss whether or not this is a good idea, right? The really good organizations in history. Have had that capacity, I mean, one, I've done a lot of study over the years of the American OSS in the Second World War, but also SOE, the Special Operations Executive, the British equivalent that was, predates OSS and obviously was the template for OSS. Read the history of that, man, it's a, you know, a bunch of guys like Patrick Leigh Fairmoor that walked across Europe sleeping in barns before the war and, spoke classical Greek and, just this weird combination of things who the next thing you know, they're on Crete and they're dreaming up operations to kidnap Nazi generals. And they actually pull it off like two guys and a handful of Greeks do this. Good lord, if you sent that proposal to Langley these days. You know, you would have no chance on earth of that thing ever being approved. They would come back with nine million reasons why that won't work, and you'd get tired of trying to explain it to them. You'd just be, okay, whatever, too much trouble, leave it alone. Now, I want to ask you about to the domestic side. It seems, again, as someone looking from the outside in, it seems the role of the FBI is now no longer about catching real threats within the US and is more focused on, I mean, whenever Moms for Liberty was declared an extremist organization and those who want to stand up for common sense and basically values of life and liberty and freedom, those are now the ones in the crosshairs. I mean, how has that change happened? Is that just because it's easier to focus on those type of people because they don't push back, they're not a threat. Has there been an active decision to see those people standing up for American values as a threat as opposed to others, maybe the Islamist type? Tell us how that change has happened and what that means for the fabric of the U.S. Well, first of all, it's catastrophic for the United States, right? I mean, intelligence agencies. Intelligence agencies shouldn't be within 10 miles of American domestic politics. It's illegal, it's unconstitutional, it's immoral, and they should never be, even when they've got to deal with domestic things like the FBI, they should never, never should be partisan. Again, that's illegal and unconstitutional and so forth. I think you have you have like two problems that are affecting both the FBI the CIA and a bunch of other agencies one is bureaucratization which kind of bureaucratic hardening of the arteries the organizations go soft. You stop having guys at the top who made their bones running operations, whether we're talking about the Bureau or CIA now, you got guys who have played political games. And then we have politicization in the sense of American domestic politics. We have outfits that should not have come anywhere near this, that at least at the senior levels have become very politicized. I mean, the Moms with Liberty thing is a great example. I have a, where I live in the state of Pennsylvania, I have a lot of contact with Moms of Liberty because of other things that we do, my wife and I. You know, you're talking about an organization, the centre of gravity is a 55 to 60 year old grandmother. And Moms for Liberty's primary focus is things like, why is this book filled with sexually explicit drawings in an elementary school library accessible to my eight-year-old? I'm not trying to ban the book, burn the book, demonize the person who wrote it. It's just age-inappropriate. It shouldn't be available to kids. It's not exactly incendiary. It's certainly not domestic violent extremism. So, it's insane that the Bureau would label these guys as an organization like that, as being a danger to anything. Not a danger. They're people involved in a political process expressing actually what are really common sense things. So, hugely dangerous. You know, and I think the problem is primarily at the senior levels, but I'm honest enough to say, and I've had this discussion with many old colleagues, you know, I'm still waiting for the day when somebody comes to an FBI SWAT team leader and says, I want you to go at five o'clock in the morning with 25 guys, all gunned up and arrest this 75-year-old guy for praying silently outside an abortion clinic. I think it would be nice to see the day where the guy would say, that's a really interesting idea, man, but I'm not doing that. I'm not the Gestapo, I'm not your secret police. It's not happening, my guys aren't going, you want my badge? Take my badge, but I'm not doing that. When they went to arrest Roger Stone, okay? On what, if you believe there was a crime, would have been at most a white collar crime. So what's the procedure in the United States, you contact the guy's lawyer and you ask him to come down to the courthouse? He shows up you charge him and then typically he's released and he walks out the door, happens all day every day all over America. That's the m.o. Nobody sends a gunboat and an armoured car and a squad of guys, with machine guns to arrest a man who's what 80 years old and by the way stands about 5'3 and, at that towers over his wife who has heart trouble and you're gonna go show up at his doorstep at 4.35 o'clock in the morning I mean come, on that's you are utilizing the law enforcement power of the United States government to intimidate political opponents. Straight up. Not okay. And I guess that infiltration, that change of thinking, that doesn't change just with administration. Something is deeper than that and there is no necessary quick fix for it. Well, I mean, let me let me focus on the CIA, but we could be talking about several organizations in addition to the FBI. Is it fixable? Yeah, I think it's fixable. I mean, first you have, but you need somebody who understands the outfit, because if you send somebody from the outside to CIA, they will be led around by the nose and played by the guys inside, and they will have no idea what's going on. But the key factor is really you have to have a president of the United States who says, go there, break as much China as you have to, fire as many people as you have to, get it back on track and get it back to work. Now, I've said this many times. I believe if you did that, and you went to CIA as an example, and tossed out folks who have clearly crossed the line on political considerations as an example, and just said, we're going back to work, We're going back to business, we're doing the people's business. I think you'd actually honestly have people standing in the halls cheering. I think the rank and file would be, thank God. Like, you don't go to CIA for the pay check. I mean, you don't starve, but you don't get rich. And you make a tremendous number of sacrifices, and you do a lot of interesting stuff, but you also live some places that are hard. And you certainly put your family through a lot of hell along the way. So really people come there for a reason and because they, as hokey as it may sound, they believe in the mission and they can see when they're not being allowed to do the job. They can see when a guy's getting promoted that has never done anything, but he laughs at the boss's jokes. They're not stupid. And tell me, some of the threat we talked about earlier, the Middle East, you've got that Islamic threat, you've got a completely different way of life and a different viewpoint on how things should end. But another article you wrote recently in the Substack, was looking at China and that threat, Biden meets Xi for talking's sake. And we've certainly had massive concerns here in the UK of that Chinese influence in our education system and much wider. You've probably had similar in education in the political system. That's another threat which is there internally and no one seems to want to deal with it. We've just had David Cameron coming back in the UK as the Foreign Secretary, one of the most pro-China political leaders in a generation. You probably have the same. So tell us about that. That article of Xi coming over and Biden being his lapdog, basically, being summoned to San Francisco. What's your concern of the Chinese influence and where that can take America? Yeah, well, let me state up front, you know, I was a case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, which is what any normal person would refer to as a spy or a spook. CIA doesn't. Those terms are used differently at CIA. Anyway, what was my job? Well, my job is to do a whole bunch of stuff, but the guts of what you get paid to do as an ops officer, as a case officer, is recruit sources inside target organizations. So in other words, my job to do to the enemy what they're trying to do to us. It is my job to get the Chinese intelligence officer to work for us, the Russian SVR guy to work for us, to get a guy inside Al Qaeda to work for us. So when I say that, not like a hooray for me speech, but as a, when I'm talking about people being recruited and how this works, it's not because I read a book about it one time, it's because this is what I did for a very, very long time, with I think some significant effect. What the Chinese do on an industrial scale is they engage in what's called elite capture, their term. That means they come in and they recruit, they gain control of, they buy, whatever verbiage resonates with you. Influential people in target countries. So that's politicians, could be military officers, corporate leaders, whoever they think has power in that country and can further their interest, they buy them and they gain control over them. They don't do them a favour and then hope later they'll do them a favour. That's what diplomats do. They gain control over them. They stick their, they, you know, they push the buttons in your head, whatever it takes, man. They stroke your ego, feed you money, produce attractive young female agents. Whatever floats your boat, whatever is the key that unlocks you, that's what they do. That's how spies work. Okay, we know that. There's no controversy about this, not a conspiracy theory. It's done worldwide on industrial scale. Not surprisingly, target number one for the Chinese Communist Party Intel guys would be the United States of America. They do this all over the United States. God knows how many guys in Congress they have turned. God knows how many corporate leaders. Look at Joe Biden, right? I mean, again, let's stop beating around the bush and playing games. This is a guy who's taken, I think Miranda Devine's best estimate is at least $31 million flowed to the Biden's from China, from individuals who are directly connected to Chinese intelligence. So let's just take the ambiguity out. Chinese spies funnelled at least $31 million to the Biden's. They didn't give it to Hunter for his good looks, or because of his cocaine user. I mean, there's only one product that Biden's had to sell and that was Joe. The Chinese communists are a lot of things, they're not idiots and they just don't throw money away. So we know all that money flowed to him and we know it came from folks directly connected Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Intel. There's only one question left to ask, what did they get and are they getting in return? You might hand a chunk of change to Hunter one time because he claimed he could do something and then it turned out he couldn't produce and you think okay, nothing ventured nothing gained. We lost the bucks move on, you would not continue to hand millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars to these guys unless something was coming back the other way. So when you put Xi and Joe in a room together and people seriously talk as if Joe is representing the interests of the United States of America. I'm just shaking my head. I'm like, really? Because he's sitting in a room with a guy that, as far as I can tell, bought him years ago. He owns the man. And if you really internalize that, the implications for American national security and the entire free world are terrifying, because it doesn't matter how many carrier battle groups you have, or nuclear weapons. Look, I'm kind of a history nerd. Once upon a time, the British East India Company took over India. They fought a battle at Plessy, I believe, and they defeated a vastly superior Indian army. Now, taking nothing away from the British army, who did a superb job. Number one reason they won the battle, because they bought off the commander of the Indian army, who sat on the side-lines with something like 80%, of the Indian forces and watched while his master and the rest of them were destroyed. Like they just, simple solution, we'll buy this guy off and they'll sit on their hands and watch. So I mean, if the Chinese move on Taiwan tomorrow and you're counting on Joe Biden to be the guy that gives the order to the 7th Fleet to save the day. Good luck, man. What's your, just so we finish off, what is your big concern with the life you've led, with your experience, seen so much and how foreign agencies work, foreign governments work, that ongoing battle, to fight for, I guess, the freedom in the US. What are your kind of big concerns when you look at the US and what has happened? Because obviously a lot of what's happened has been enabled politically, but it's also been enabled in the media, in many, economically, that's been a way in for China. But what to you is probably your major concern of where America currently is? See, here's the way I would sum it up. I think since 1945, the American people have taken for granted the fact that the United States is the preeminent political, military, and economic power on the planet. That's just sort of bedrock, and it's almost like a law of nature now. So things are good sometimes and less good other times, and occasionally we get dragged into a war, and then after a while, we get tired of the war and we go home. Well, we don't think we actually lost our status as the number one power. And even when we leave Afghanistan, we don't think we don't really think of it as we got beat. We think of it as maybe we shouldn't have been there and we got tired of it and we went home. Nobody's dictating articles of surrender on a battleship like we did to the Japanese in 1945. And we sort of assume that, again, that that's, you know, U.S. Military's the most powerful, our economy's the biggest, yada yada. There are no, of course, laws of physics that says that is true. And we've touched on some of the reasons, but we could go on probably all day talking about there's a lot of really catastrophic stuff happening around the planet. Between the Chinese, the possibility the Iranians are going to get nuclear weapons, Pakistan falls and all of a sudden the Taliban has 200 nuclear weapons. Terror attacks inside the United States. I hate this word because it gets overused, but you're actually beginning to talk about things that are existential when it comes to the United States. You're actually, I've said this to numerous people, you could realize that the Chinese could move on Taiwan and a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier could go to the bottom of the Pacific and you realize you don't have one west of San Diego. And all of a sudden right there the status quo that has existed since 1945 where the Pacific is an American Lake ceased to exist guys but the Chinese aren't in San Francisco yet, but, you are no longer everybody in the entire all of East Asia now lives with a new reality, Nope, the South Koreans the Japanese. What are they going to do just fend for themselves? That kind of stuff is already starting to happen all over the planet, and we're either facilitating it or just blissfully ignorant to it, but we're not doing anything to stop it. What happens if the Iranians wake up? What happens if the Iranians detonate a nuclear weapon in the desert and say, we have 12 more? And guess what? But we already moved half of them to places like Lebanon, under the control of Hezbollah, to locations you don't know about and where you can't stop us from launching them. So you Israelis knock yourselves out bombing sites in Iran. We didn't tell you this until we had already taken steps. Now you live in a world where the Iranians can wink the state of Israel out of existence, literally, because Israel's a tiny place, right? Two or three nuclear weapons and Israel doesn't exist anymore. It is that danger. It's that like we're teetering on the edge of a cliff and yet we're not, don't seem to actually be doing anything about it. Well Sam I appreciate you coming on. I think it is so important for the public to understand the perilous situation which we do face and I've thoroughly enjoyed your many times on War Room. So thank you so much for giving us your time today in sharing some of those insights. Thank you. Appreciate it.

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Gemma and Ian chat to Bobbie Scholley.  Bobbie served in the U.S. Navy as a Diving and Salvage Officer for 24 years, holding leadership roles in many navy diving operations including the 1996 recovery of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, NY, the 2000 bombing recovery of the USS COLE in Aden, Yemen, and USS MONITOR Expeditions 2001 and 2002 off the coast of Hatteras, NC. She was the fourth women to have command of a US Navy ship and the first women to command a US Navy Mobile and Diving Salvage Unit. After completing her naval service, Bobbie turned her focus to non-profit opportunities, concentrating on work associated with veteran groups and education. She was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF) in 2000 and held positions as President and Chairman of the Board, actively supporting their mission of mentoring new divers. Bobbie was a member of the Board of Directors of the Navy Diver Foundation, helping to ensure veteran navy divers were recognized and cared for. Bobbie is a seasoned speaker and is routinely called upon to provide her expertise for breaking news interviews, seminars, presentations, and panels. Website :  www.wdhof.org Facebook :  https://www.facebook.com/wdhof The BiG Scuba Podcast is brought to you by Narked at 90.   “Beyond Technical”   Narked at 90    Large Enough To Cope, Small Enough To Care   Whether thinking of moving across to tech diving or completely new to diving, Narked at 90 can advise and guide on the best equipment and set up for your personal or commercial requirements     https://www.narkedat90.com/ We hope you have enjoyed this episode of The BiG Scuba Podcast.  Please give us ★★★★★, leave a review, and tell your friends about us as each share and like makes a difference. Contact Gemma and Ian with your messages, ideas and feedback via The BiG Scuba Bat Phone    +44 7810 005924   Or use our social media platforms.   To keep up to date with the latest news, follow us: We are on Instagram                     @thebigscuba   We are on Facebook                      @thebigscuba   We are on Twitter                          @the_big_scuba  The BiG Scuba Website                  www.thebigscuba.com Amazon Store :                                https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/thebigscuba Visit   https://www.patreon.com/thebigscubapodcast and subscribe - super quick and easy to do and it makes a massive difference. Thank you.

In this episode of The Real ResQ, we are joined by Claude Morrissey, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Rescue Swimmer 537. Morrissey had an amazing time serving in the USCG and loved being a rescue swimmer. In this conversation, he recalls great times at each of his units and some of his most memorable rescues.  His first unit was in Houston, Texas. In his first 24 hours of duty after being qualified as a rescue swimmer, he was called out for two people missing, then a medevac and then a boat on fire. That's a busy first day of duty! Morrissey took us through a few more rescues that stood out to him in Houston. He earned an Accommodation Medal, as well as earning the CG Foundation Award, alongside his crew. This was a rescue of four people hanging onto a boat that was almost completely sunk. He shares another story in which he rescued two guys in a raft with sharks swimming under them. Next, we talk about a couple rescues out of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While there, he earned a Sikorsky award for getting guys out of yet another raft.  The next story is where he earned an Air Medal for a rescue 245 nautical miles offshore. From Cape Cod, we transitioned our conversation over to Kodiak, Alaska, where Morrissey had two memorable rescues. One was of a boat that ran aground; the other found him on the edge of an extremely steep slope.  Lastly, we go down to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where we talk about five rescues. One of these stories was the assistance of a sailboat in distress, which required a landing on the USS Cole. Next, Morrissey talks about a critical patient rescued off a cruise ship. Then we discuss a rescue where they later found out that one of the persons involved was a billionaire. We also get to hear about the wild story of two pilots having to eject out of their plane after a mid-air collision. We finish our conversation discussing Morrissey's very last rescue. Enjoy!   https://verticalhelicasts.com/the-real-resq-podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/therealresq https://www.instagram.com/therealresq   This episode is brought to you by Vertical Helicasts Thank you for sponsoring this episode of The Real ResQ; Breeze-Eastern, https://www.breeze-eastern.com/

In this episode of The Real ResQ, we are joined by Claude Morrissey, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Rescue Swimmer 537. Morrissey had an amazing time serving in the USCG and loved being a rescue swimmer. In this conversation, he recalls great times at each of his units and some of his most memorable rescues.  His first unit was in Houston, Texas. In his first 24 hours of duty after being qualified as a rescue swimmer, he was called out for two people missing, then a medevac and then a boat on fire. That's a busy first day of duty! Morrissey took us through a few more rescues that stood out to him in Houston. He earned an Accommodation Medal, as well as earning the CG Foundation Award, alongside his crew. This was a rescue of four people hanging onto a boat that was almost completely sunk. He shares another story in which he rescued two guys in a raft with sharks swimming under them. Next, we talk about a couple rescues out of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While there, he earned a Sikorsky award for getting guys out of yet another raft. The next story is where he earned an Air Medal for a rescue 245 nautical miles offshore. From Cape Cod, we transitioned our conversation over to Kodiak, Alaska, where Morrissey had two memorable rescues. One was of a boat that ran aground; the other found him on the edge of an extremely steep slope.  Lastly, we go down to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where we talk about five rescues. One of these stories was the assistance of a sailboat in distress, which required a landing on the USS Cole. Next, Morrissey talks about a critical patient rescued off a cruise ship. Then we discuss a rescue where they later found out that one of the persons involved was a billionaire.  We also get to hear about the wild story of two pilots having to eject out of their plane after a mid-air collision. We finish our conversation discussing Morrissey's very last rescue. Enjoy! https://verticalhelicasts.com/the-real-resq-podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/therealresq https://www.instagram.com/therealresq   This episode is brought to you by Vertical Helicasts Thank you for sponsoring this episode of The Real ResQ; Breeze-Eastern, https://www.breeze-eastern.com/

Damon and Damo start this episode making excuses for why they haven't released an episode for a while. Tisha joins the episode a little late and adds value to the “excuse” conversation.  Happy 248th birthday to the Navy! Rest well to all the Sailors we lost on the USS Cole on 12 Oct 2000. What the hell did Will Smith do to get him in the eternal dog house? Tisha has been doing some very interesting things in her free time. The trio talks about it. Damo talks about the plight of being new at a command when social events are going down. He also takes back his shoutout of the ‘Chow Call” app. Damon takes 60 seconds (or more) to talk about football. Simone Biles is back in the news for being the GOAT! Damo comes to the realization that his greatest weapon is Microsoft Outlook. Have you seen the one TikTok video? You know, where the Sailor is blatantly violating the Electrical Safety program. What are the rates/department that you do not want any smoke with? Is there any better access than the access to qualify people in RADM? The Navy will miss its recruiting goals all around the board this year, with active duty numbers being approximately 7,000 less than our goal. Tisha celebrates 100% disability. Do Better: Damon - The heads at the NGIS and Navy Lodge. Damo -  Adults with immature restroom habits. Tisha - a personal do better regarding a realtor in the San Diego area. How important is it to discuss big global news stories with your division? Damo questions the necessity of celebrities to speak out after every issue. A comment from the last episode sparks a conversation. What's really going on with the Senior Enlisted Marketplace? Is “trust but verify” a dead figure of speech? A lot of comments were left under the CNOs video post about Suicide Prevention awareness. What exactly is it that we can do to help decrease ideations and suicides? A barrage of random questions ensues. Remember to follow the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on TikTok, Facebook, Discord, Instagram, Twitter, and subscribe on YouTube.   Keep up with the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on our social media and Youtube - https://linktr.ee/Ptsfpodcast     Links and more from this Episode:   Chow Call Website - https://www.chowcall.net/glue/landing   Navy To Miss Recruiting Goals - https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/09/14/navy-will-miss-recruiting-goals-by-7000-sailors-this-year/?       Damo's Book of the Week:   Tuesday's With Morrie (Mitch Albom) - https://www.amazon.com/Tuesdays-Morrie-Greatest-Lesson-Anniversary/dp/076790592X   Additional Credits: PTSF “Theme Music” - Produced by Lim0

We are putting this episode up early for a very important reason. On this date, October 12th of 2000, was the bombing of the USS Cole. Kirk Lippold was the Commanding Naval Officer aboard the Cole, and he joins us for an in-depth look at what happened on that day. Kirk is also a public speaker with Keppler, the author of "Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole," and you can find him on X @KirkLippold Prior to that discussion though, we are joined by Dan Gordon, IDF Sniper and Hollywood film writer, to give us his take on the barbaric terrorist attack in Israel just days ago. Follow us: http://instagram.com/battlelinepodcast http://twitter.com/battlelinepod Check out The Battleline Podcast Vault for limited edition gear from the show: http://battlelinepodcast.etsy.com/ For 15% off all Fort Scott Munitions ammo & gear go to http://fsm.com & use promo code: Battleline For 20% off all Bubs Naturals gear and products including collagen protein and MCT oil powder, go to https://www.bubsnaturals.com/?discount=BATTLELINE .. All purchases help to support the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation Photonis Defense is the global leader in night vision solutions providing more high-quality night vision capabilities than anyone. Hunters, shooters, boaters and outdoor enthusiasts rely on Photonis Defense systems to make their adventures safer and more successful. Visit http://photonisdefense.com for more information; or look for Photonis Defense product options from your night vision dealer. For full video of this episode, subscribe to our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@battlelinepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are putting this episode up early for a very important reason. On this date, October 12th of 2000, was the bombing of the USS Cole. Kirk Lippold was the Commanding Naval Officer aboard the Cole, and he joins us for an in-depth look at what happened on that day. Kirk is also a public speaker with Keppler, the author of "Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole," and you can find him on X @KirkLippold   Prior to that discussion though, we are joined by Dan Gordon, IDF Sniper and Hollywood film writer, to give us his take on the barbaric terrorist attack in Israel just days ago. Follow us: http://instagram.com/battlelinepodcasthttp://twitter.com/battlelinepod Check out The Battleline Podcast Vault for limited edition gear from the show: http://battlelinepodcast.etsy.com/ For 15% off all Fort Scott Munitions ammo & gear go to http://fsm.com & use promo code: Battleline For 20% off all Bubs Naturals gear and products including collagen protein and MCT oil powder, go to https://www.bubsnaturals.com/?discount=BATTLELINE .. All purchases help to support the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation Photonis Defense is the global leader in night vision solutions providing more high-quality night vision capabilities than anyone. Hunters, shooters, boaters and outdoor enthusiasts rely on Photonis Defense systems to make their adventures safer and more successful. Visit http://photonisdefense.com for more information; or look for Photonis Defense product options from your night vision dealer. For full video of this episode, subscribe to our Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@battlelinepodcast

The USS Cole Attack: Commander Kirk Lippold's Perspective It didn't start with September 11th. Almost a year before al Qaeda terrorists flew planes into buildings, suicide bombers affiliated with al Qaeda attacked the destroyer USS Cole as it was refueling in Yemen. Seventeen American sailors died in the attack. The commanding officer of the Cole was Kirk Lippold, who tells the story of the attack in this 2012 interview. Get Front Burner: by Kirk LippoldAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases.You may also enjoy my interviews with Colin Powell and Richard Marcinko For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. and now on YouTube Photo by Hashtags: alQaeda USSCole terrorist

This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to break down the week's big national security news stories, including:“Home to Roost.” A judge in the military commission trying Abdul Raheem al-Nashiri, a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, has ruled that his confession is inadmissible on the grounds that it was tainted by his prior torture and interrogation at the hands of U.S. officials, even though the confession itself was extracted from a non-coercive “clean team.” What does this mean for the future of the Nashiri trial? And of the military commissions as a whole? “Disqualification, Qualified.” A pair of leading conservative constitutional scholars has reignited the discussion surrounding Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, arguing that it is self-executing and excludes former President Trump from the presidency. How persuasive are their arguments? And what impact will they actually have on the 2024 election?“A Distinctive Musk.” The New Yorker has run a profile of Elon Musk, focusing in substantial part on the complicated but central role he and his company SpaceX have come to play in Ukrainian military efforts, despite his frequent flirtations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. What should we make of Musk's important role in national security affairs? And are there better ways for the U.S. government to approach it?For object lessons, Quinta shared a profile of the weirdest Jan. 6 co-conspirator to date. Scott endorsed the new true spy thriller podcast series, “Spy Valley.” And Natalie shouted out her most recent favorite delicious treat, Nightingale ice cream sandwiches.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to break down the week's big national security news stories, including:“Home to Roost.” A judge in the military commission trying Abdul Raheem al-Nashiri, a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, has ruled that his confession is inadmissible on the grounds that it was tainted by his prior torture and interrogation at the hands of U.S. officials, even though the confession itself was extracted from a non-coercive “clean team.” What does this mean for the future of the Nashiri trial? And of the military commissions as a whole? “Disqualification, Qualified.” A pair of leading conservative constitutional scholars has reignited the discussion surrounding Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, arguing that it is self-executing and excludes former President Trump from the presidency. How persuasive are their arguments? And what impact will they actually have on the 2024 election?“A Distinctive Musk.” The New Yorker has run a profile of Elon Musk, focusing in substantial part on the complicated but central role he and his company SpaceX have come to play in Ukrainian military efforts, despite his frequent flirtations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. What should we make of Musk's important role in national security affairs? And are there better ways for the U.S. government to approach it?For object lessons, Quinta shared a profile of the weirdest Jan. 6 co-conspirator to date. Scott endorsed the new true spy thriller podcast series, “Spy Valley.” And Natalie shouted out her most recent favorite delicious treat, Nightingale ice cream sandwiches. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Derek sits with Retired US Navy Commander, Kirk Lippold.  Commander Lippold is the former Commanding Officer of USS Cole, when it was attacked by Al Queda in Yemen in 2000.  He will tell the story of incredible bravery of the crew as they fought to save the ship and their own lives, and he will talk about the political fallout, his post Navy career, his latest book, “Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole”, and so much more.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-lippold-5421967Twitter: https://twitter.com/KirkLippoldSPONSOR - Go to https://betterhelp.com/derekduvallshow for 10% off your first month of therapy with @betterhelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help #sponsored

Today, Hunter is joined by Annie Morgan, a Criminal Defense Appeals Attorney with the Guantanamo Bay Military Commission Defense Organization, to continue to the story of Guantanamo Bay where John Baker left off. Once John had the defenders responsible for the al-Nashiri case move off, Annie Morgan and a new team of defenders tried to pick up the pieces. On today's episode, we dive deeper in the war on terror, the legacy of the attack on the USS Cole, and what the never ending torture of al-Nashiri should mean to the every single American whose name it was done in.     Guests: Annie Morgan, Criminal Defense Appeals Attorney, Military Commissions Defense Organization, Guantanamo Bay     Resources: Bombing of the USS Cole https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/world/meast/uss-cole-bombing-fast-facts/index.html 1998 Kenyan Embassy Bombings https://www.state.gov/23rd-commemoration-of-the-august-7th-u-s-embassy-bombings/ Clinton Response to Embassy Bombings https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1480&context=journal_of_international_and_comparative_law Carol Rosenberg Writings on GITMO https://www.nytimes.com/by/carol-rosenberg Follow Carol on Twitter https://twitter.com/carolrosenberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Follow GITMO Watch on Twitter https://twitter.com/GitmoWatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor     Contact Hunter Parnell: Publicdefenseless@gmail.com  Instagram @PublicDefenselessPodcast Twitter                                                                 @PDefenselessPod www.publicdefenseless.com  Subscribe to the Patron www.patreon.com/PublicDefenselessPodcast  Donate on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5KW7WMJWEXTAJ Donate on Stripe https://donate.stripe.com/7sI01tb2v3dwaM8cMN  

Part 2 of the Leadership Lounge with Retired Commander Kirk Lippold.  Kirk discusses and tells the first hand story of he and his staff working together to save lives and the ship after Al Quada Suicide Bombers explode a bomb next to the ship in the Port of Aden in Yemen on October 10th, 2000.  Heroism at it's finest saving as many sailors as possible.  The story is riveting and unbelievable when heard from the first hand account.

A tremendous privelege to discuss the journey Kirl Lippold's life took leading to his Command of the USS Cole and how Leadership came to call on that fateful morning in 2000 when Al Quada attacked his ship, Killing 17 and injuring dozens.  Part 1 of the journey leading up to the attack and his fight to save his crew and ship.

Hear Part 2 of Savage's broadcast from October 12, 2000: Savage warned how diversity training would weaken our military.  Hear this radio broadcast from October 12, 2000, as Savage reacts to the attack of the USS Cole in Yemen. Listen as Savage, once again, predicted how the radical Left would subvert our nation's Borders, Language, and Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Savage warned how diversity training would weaken our military.  Hear this radio broadcast from October 12, 2000, as Savage reacts to the attack of the USS Cole in Yemen. Listen as Savage, once again, predicted how the radical Left would subvert our nation's Borders, Language, and Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thomas currently serves as a Senior Consultant at The Soufan Group, a global intelligence and security consulting group. He brings an extensive record of service with the FBI, working bothInternational and Domestic Terrorism cases. SA O'Connor was a Team Leader on the Washington Field Office, Evidence Response Team. In this capacity, SA O'Connor has led forensic teams to multiple terrorist attacks around the globe. These deployments include the 1998 Nairobi Embassy bombing, 2 deployments to Kosovo in 1999 for war crimes investigations, 2000 USS Cole attack in Aden Yemen, SA O'Connor was a coordinator for evidence collection at the 9-11 attack on the US Pentagon, 2002 N17 bombing in Athens Greece, 2006 attack on the US Consulate in Karachi Pakistan, 6 deployments to Iraq and 3 deployments to Afghanistan. SA O'Connor worked at the crime scenes of both the 2018 Tree of life Synagogue shooting and the 2019 Virginia Beach government building shootings. SA O'Connor specialized in Post Blast Investigation and shooting reconstruction evidence recovery. In 2005 SA O'Connor was assigned to investigate hostage takings in Iraq Theater of Operations. During this deployment, SA O'Connor was involved in the rescue of US Citizen Roy Hallums who had been held by extremists for 311 days.

Episode: 2540 Semi-Submersible Ships, or how the USS Cole hitched a ride home.  Today, semi-submersible ships.

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Heath and Jamie sit down with Chief Brad Dowden, a Navy Sailor, Podcaster and International Man of Magic. He discusses is career on the USS Cole and his love for magic. We got to hear how magic helped him meet people around the globe. Brad's wonderful show, Behind the Helm, can be seen on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@behindthehelm2300 and all major Podcast outlets. Heath is featured on Episode 75. It's Live on YouTube and Twitch every Thursday at 4PM EST.

The biggest bribery investigation in US military history revolves around a Malaysian defense contractor who just made an escape as brazen as the case itself: Leonard Francis aka Fat Leo snipped off his ankle monitor and disappeared from house arrest.We're talking about the case of Leonard Glenn Francis, a defense contractor who owned a company named Glenn Defense Marine Asia, or GDMA for short. He bribed his way literally to the top of the US Navy chain of command, and the fallout included an admiral who was short-listed for chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, but now is the first serving admiral to be convicted and serve jail time in US history. If you like our content please become a patron to get our premium episodes available exclusively to our premium subscribers, as well as our public episodes ad-free. 1 Leonard aka Fat Leo was born to a Scottish father and a Malaysian mother whose family owned a similar shipping supply business to the one he grew to prominence of late. His father's abuse of his mother, both physical and emotional, led to Leo having the same duality of obsession with and dislike of women. Like his father, this would ultimately be Leo's undoing, as the angry wives of US Navy officers like Michael Misiewicz were the ones who provided the initial reports to the NCIS which began the Fat Leonard investigation into the US Navy Pacific fleet chain of command. 2 Leo grew from scrappy husbanding agent to preferred military contractor between the time of the USS Cole bombing and 9/11, by providing whatever "services" the US Navy officers he dealt with wanted. Women, booze, parties, hotel suites, 5 star meals... Leo could get it if you wanted it, as long as you had some influence in the US Navy that could turn Leo a profit down the line. Leo even procured a former British ship, which he renamed "The Braveheart", to serve as a floating brothel-slash-casino which followed the 7th fleet around the south Pacific with diplomatic clearance. Even when NCIS caught wind of Leo's exploits, he was difficult to prosecute both because of the reach of his influence within the chain of command, and because Leo also had the NCIS director at Quantico, Virginia on his payroll. As it turned out, special agent in charge John Beliveau had befriended Leo when he was a security aide to an admiral in Japan years before. In fact Leo was so problematic to prosecute that he wasn't... earlier this month he removed his ankle monitor and disappeared from his San Diego home. As it turns out the security company contracted to look after him wasn't doing their job very well either, they hadn't been to his home in days and didn't notice the tampering with the ankle monitor for 6 hours. 3 Leo was due to be sentenced tomorrow, but he's now on the run. Episode #Dubimeter: 9.0 1. Craig Whitlock. The man who seduced the 7th Fleet. The Washington Post. May 2016. ⇤2. Greg Moran. Jury convicts four former Navy officers in ‘Fat Leonard' bribery trial. Los Angeles Times. June 2022. ⇤3. Fat Leonard's bold escape from California home was judge's worst fear come true. The Mercury-News. September 2022. ⇤