Headlines and History

Intelligence Technician. Former narco investigator. OIF, OEF, OSS veteran. Podcast host. *Not DoD page. All opinions/posts/links are my own.*

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

Episode 47 of Headlines and History. Israel-Palestine Response Part 2. Biblical Rights and Children in Combat. Enjoy!

https://t.co/W5p9uyduP0

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

Outstanding article. I have a few questions but the overall thesis is solid. Divisions led the tactical fight in the Cold War and they will again, at least in Europe. INDOPACOM is an entirely different story.

[Modern War Institute @WarInstitute]

The Army is adopting a division-centric warfighting. But what will divisions' role be on the future battlefield if brigades are engaged in the close fight with the enemy? https://t.co/HGMjCLE7oV

[Kristen Kimmick @Kimmick86]

Didn’t prepare to cry on a Friday morning but here we are

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

Let’s start a movement: “show me your laptop.” It says so much.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@Lawrence I helped present cases to grand juries for 14 years. Never did a juror say anything like this. Some may be no-billed because the probable cause was weak—in their eyes—but never to this extent. It’s a sign of incompetent and/or corrupt persecution.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

Buffalo has the Bills--I love my Sabres but we all know where the NHL stands in relative comparison--and nothing else. Detroit has baseball and basketball glory. As does Minnesota and New York. Maybe the Lions haven't won, but their city has experienced championships. Not Buffalo. That's the difference.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@infantrydort Cute but holds little value. He never even served on a BDE staff. Leading killers from foxhole to foxhole is a worthy and valiant mission but it doesn't make one qualified to run the largest, richest, and most powerful organization in history. You know that.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Never deleting this app

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@ChaseDaniel 1984

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

One of the fascinating developments of the Trump era is the lightning fast transition by Republicans to holding everyone accountable for "getting rich in office" and "deep state corruption" to "OK, I would have screamed at Trump 20 years ago for this but since Biden did it, no one cares." How about we stick with holding everyone accountable again, left and right.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@hemantmehta I’m a Humanist/Atheist. One is a system of ethics and/or morality, depending on your opinion. Atheism is the non-belief in theism. Neither is a religion. No preference or none works fine.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

For those posting about the U.S. and Israeli military “integrating,” I propose you read the bill’s language, then decide. Just a thought.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@RoKhanna Why don’t you post the actual language? Let your voters decide. 3,2,1…

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

I’m no fan, but in his defense, the FBI is part of the greater IC and does have a foreign mission, albeit narrow and limited. He may have been privy to some information by being in briefings with other IC partners. He certainly doesn’t know what the other agencies like DoW, CIA, NGA, NSA, etc., know.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@LoneStar_PAC But he doesn’t cheat on his wife so there’s that.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Nothing to see here.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

I wonder why. 😏

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

NYP Reporter: Prior to boarding Air Force One to depart Beijing, the entire U.S. delegation disposed of every item provided to them by their Chinese hosts. Gifts, badges, pins, and commemorative items were all dumped into a trash bin on site. The directive was absolute, no item of Chinese origin was permitted to board the aircraft. The precautions extended beyond the departure itself. Delegation members had left all personal electronic devices at home before traveling to China and operated exclusively on clean burner phones throughout the duration of the trip.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

NYP Reporter: Prior to boarding Air Force One to depart Beijing, the entire U.S. delegation disposed of every item provided to them by their Chinese hosts. Gifts, badges, pins, and commemorative items were all dumped into a trash bin on site. The directive was absolute, no item of Chinese origin was permitted to board the aircraft. The precautions extended beyond the departure itself. Delegation members had left all personal electronic devices at home before traveling to China and operated exclusively on clean burner phones throughout the duration of the trip.

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

I don’t know how many times I’ll have to repeat this, but here we go.

The money he keeps ranting about was Iran’s money that we owed for military equipment the Shah bought but we never delivered (plus interest). We repaid it to settle a dispute before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal because we would’ve had to pay far more if the tribunal had ruled in that case.

The cash he’s talking about was delivered in Swiss Francs and Euros because we could not actually transfer dollars to Iran.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@elonmusk That’s a naked misunderstanding of political history.

[Headlines and History @INTEL_Chief]

@EricLDaugh Agree or not, his point wasn’t about his recent win but the 2016 election. Twitter never spots being dumb. Which, I understand is ironic, because my comment only helps you grow even though I’m right. 😩