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76: Part 2: Gary Edgington goes from Beverly Hills to Baghdad

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Game of Crimes

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Gary Edgington was going through the Los Angeles Sheriff's Academy when his father, also a cop, was killed in the line of duty. Gary overcame the tragedy to work his way through various assignments, eventually working counterterrorism from Beverly Hills to Baghdad, Iraq. His book, Outside the Wire, is loosely based on his exploits.


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0:00.0

So we're back, folks. Part two. This is our new format. So give us feedback. Hop on to Facebook.

0:17.0

I'll tell you where all those things are. The Twitter, the, you know, the Instagram just list.

0:20.7

Know what you think of the format. Enduring our break. We actually had some interesting discussions

0:26.3

about some things around intelligence and counterintelligence and stuff like that.

0:31.2

There's, I mean, there's just some interesting stuff out there. We're swapping books

0:35.4

back and forth. And so, yeah, there's just some, some people do stupid shit,

0:42.2

which makes your job interesting, right? Especially when you decided that you wanted to go.

0:46.4

So let me ask you this. What made you decide or how did the process come about? Because you went to the

0:51.4

uh, uh, uh, you went to Cal DOJ in 94. And as we were talking, we were sharing names and we

0:57.3

have a name in common, Ed Menevian. And so Steve, when I was doing my work down at US DOJ on

1:03.2

information, intelligent sharing, one of the reps we had from California was from Cal DOJ.

1:08.4

And I said, what's Ed Menevian? Well, so Terry Gill tell tell tell tell them Gary, who is Ed Menevian

1:15.6

to you? Well, Ed Menevian, um, when I first met him, he was a supervisor at B&E in Riverside.

1:22.8

And uh, he's he's a character. He's he's a pretty funny guy. He's a great guy. And uh, after uh,

1:30.3

9-11, the attorney general Bill Locke here decided that California needed its own organic

1:37.7

counterterrorism, uh, intelligence collection, um, organization. And so he tapped Ed Menevian, um,

1:47.3

to be, um, the chief and uh, and Ed tapped me to be the task force commander to stand up the

1:54.0

task force in, in uh, Southern California. I had, uh, Monterey to San Diego. So I, I had a lot,

2:03.5

but I also, he's a great guy. He's a really good guy. And so we were just talking about the small,

2:09.0

I mean, we're sorry, we're talking about it's a small world, right? We're all related by two

2:12.8

degrees of separation. I may not know somebody, but I know somebody who knows you or you know,

2:18.1

et cetera. It's amazing. It's amazing. You know, and it's, it's, it sounds like it was kind of,

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