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#116 - Anthony Shaffer - Retired US Army Lt Col.

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Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jarred Taylor welcomes retired US Army Lt Col. Anthony Shaffer to Free Range American. The two discuss highlights of Shaffer’s career as a former senior intelligence officer with more than 25 years in the intelligence community to include adventures as a gray arms salesman for Russian weapons, being a whistleblower, tracking and data mining Al Qaeda members in operation ABLE DANGER, 9/11 coverups and litigation surrounding his books “Operation Dark Heart” and “The Last Line”, and the fight ahead in defense of the 2nd amendment as the founder of the London Center for Policy Research.

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0:00.0

You have now entered Free Range American Podcast, presented by black rifle coffee.com.

0:16.8

All right.

0:17.9

This one, this one I'm super excited for.

0:21.5

You know, lately we've been having a lot of cool guests on that are very interesting.

0:26.0

To me, you know, the ones that I've been pulling on are a lot of the ones I just personally want to hear the story of.

0:31.8

And yours, Tony, is really freaking crazy.

0:36.1

And I can't wait because we're going to get into two very good

0:39.8

parts in this show here, you know, the first half of just who you are and what has happened

0:45.6

in your life in the last 22, 21, 23 years. And then what you're doing now because of a lot of

0:52.7

our audience is going to be super fascinated with what you're into right now.

0:57.6

But first, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Lieutenant Colonel retired Tony Schaefer.

1:01.8

Tony, welcome to Free Range American.

1:03.7

Hey, Jared. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

1:06.1

And I've watched your podcast and I've been looking forward to coming on with you. So thanks for

1:13.0

having me today. Oh, I can't wait, sir. This is going to be, I mean, I just to unpack what

1:17.6

happened 20 years ago is like, I'm already amped on it. So I'll let you jump in. Like,

1:23.8

jump in from the beginning. So yeah, I'm a retired intelligence operative.

1:29.1

I actually retired in 2011.

1:31.2

God, where's the time gone?

1:32.8

But then I had 30 and a half years in by that time.

1:36.4

So I had my mandatory retirement date.

1:39.8

And I started doing stuff in the 80s long before most people even knew we were up to doing things.

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