Tom Clancy was the most important American writer of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was also an Honorary Yeoman Warder for the Tower of London.
If you’re new to “The Hunt for Tom Clancy” this is a pretty good primer on why I got started with the project—Bear In mind this interview was 2019 and I’ve just kept getting weird with it, which I encourage you to subscribe to (if you have already I thank you, and appreciate you)
HE WORKS FOR THE ERIC PRINCE CLASS c’mon everything about this guy signals he’s a way for whatever they’re calling Blackwater now to have a man on the inside of SSCI how hard is this to figure out the ambassador he protected in Afghanistan went on to run INR. Do the math.
If e-mail jobs aren’t real then why did I just spend an hour on the clock joking with our corporate counsel about the CIA doing 9/11 to kill Jackie Chan because they figured out he was a Chinese spy sent to investigate the Epstein network in the 90s?
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former senior Trump administration official, said she resigned last month in part because she was increasingly frustrated with the lack of oversight of the intelligence community’s use of taxpayer funds—including gold bullion. 🔗 https://t.co/Db3dpdaTkr
In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today.
David Petraeus has access to all the stuff from CANVAS since KKR acquired Instructure. He likes to watch the young people. Every classroom has been wired with cameras and microphones since COVID no one bats an eye at that surveillance—Higher Ed is an adjunct to Intel services
UChicago’s Anthropic deal seems like a great opportunity for intensification of campus surveillance and extraction. You really think “your” data—from student ‘therapy’ chats with Claude to faculty queries and uploaded research data—will stay “yours” with this university admin?
I only had a high school diploma when “American Cipher” came out. w/ the exception of Michael Hastings all my “colleagues” in journalism w/ college degrees from Yale obediently let themselves be herded by the White House & Army into not publishing anything on an American hostage.
“I never thought I’d see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer.”
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"COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law."
Pennsylvania Mayor slams ‘Love Island USA’ contestant Sean Reifel for quitting his police job to be on the show:
“Our police department spent a lot of time training and we paid thousands of taxpayer dollars to send him to the police academy. We are disappointed he left as we now have another vacancy in our department that is impossible to fill until next year. I never thought I’d see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer.”
if ghosts and graveyards interest or compel you in the slightest, subscribe to the hunt for Tom Clancy—this summer we’ll visit Col Sanders’ tomb in Kentucky