It’s said that the best intelligence operatives are the ones who come from broken homes or have been traumatized to the point that they don’t trust everyone and question everything. My journey through the world of intelligence has been no different. Like so many others, I served in the military. I was 19 years old and graduated from a school in Oregon where my graduating class had about 150 people. I left home for Fort Benning, GA - Home of the Light Infantry - in late 1991. It was during this military service that I was sucked into a corrupt system that I didn’t expect and eventually inducted into a behavior modification and advanced interrogation program that forever changed me and my outlook on a great many things and those sworn to protect the public from harm - some of the details, of which, I will get into later on. But, I truly feel that learning and falling into the intelligence community saved my life. My first "blog" article (linked here: The Umbrella of Control: ...