If you don't mind, you know, Tony, for you, you're a lieutenant colonel, okay?

One of my biggest heroes when I was in a military was a man named Lieutenant Colonel Peacock's.

He ended up being a general later on, but he was one of my favorite guys I ever worked under

when I was at the 101st Airborne.

Lieutenant Colonel is a very high-ranking place to be, and you've seen a lot, you've talked a lot,

you have a lot of things that happened. That day, then Senator Biden, today, ex-president Joe Biden, says five of them were not

allowed to come on today. You were one of the five. I was. What were you told that first you were

invited, who invited you? And then what did they say that you can't come on? Well, let me give a little bit of background for context.

So being a lieutenant colonel is a bit of misnomer.

That was a part of my cover that happened during the time I was outed by DIA.

I'm in something called the Military Intelligence Accepted Career Program, MISEP. We go back and forth between being civilians. I'm also something called the military intelligence accepted career program, MISIP.

We go back and forth between being civilians.

I'm also a retired GS-14.

You can look it up.

This is unclassified, but I'm just saying.

So what happened was, Pat, is that when I came back from Afghanistan, after I disclosed my role in the able danger operation i was

immediately suspended by defense intelligence over nonsense over who suspended you uh the defense

intelligence agency this was in uh the beginning of. Who was the shot caller that did that?

Who called the shot? Yeah, it was Major General, I'll think of his name in a second, and he was a Marine Corps general.

I'll think of it. Two-star general. Two-star general. He was the DO, the Director of operations. And at the time, the director was Admiral

Jacobi. And when I got suspended, I had some time on my hands because nobody knew what was going

on. There was three nonsensical allegations, which, by the way,

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