The Ripple Effect Podcast #107 (LT. COL. Anthony Shaffer)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Society & Culture, 6, Philosophy, Bryan, Carlin, Callen, Dave, Bill

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer is a Senior Fellow with both the London Center for Policy Research and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), and a consultant.
He is a senior operations officer and Military Operations Training Course (MOTC) graduate with over 30 years of field experience. He has held numerous leadership positions, including as commander of Operating Base (OB) Alpha (Defense Intelligence) and as directing Task Force STRATUS IVY - a unit that conducted cutting edge technology and information operations from the mid 90s through the turn of the century. He has played key roles in multiple interagency operations that were conducted with the NSA, CIA and FBI.
He is also a best selling author which includes his book Operation Dark Heart, which talks about a classified operation called Able Danger. Able Danger had identified 2 of 3 Al Qaeda cells active in the 9/11 attacks; the 'Brooklyn cell' linked to "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman, including September 11 attacks leader Mohamed Atta, and three of the 9/11 plot's other 19 hijackers. The Defense Department attempted to preserve secrecy of revelations made by this book Operation Dark Heart, by buying up and destroying all 10,000 copies of the book.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple fact.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm gonna' I'm gonna I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:40.3	I'm your host, Ricky Vrandis. Today we have an awesome, awesome guest, Colonel Lieutenant Anthony Schaefer, also author of the book Operation Darkheart. He's done interviews on a bunch of shows. He's been on mainstream media shows. He's been on alternative media shows. So you might know him. You might know his name or his
1:28.7	face. And he also wrote the book Operation Dark Hard, which is about the able danger operation,
1:34.3	which we didn't get into too much today. Well, actually, we didn't get in at all because we talked
1:38.5	about so many other things. And I didn't want to stop the conversation from flowing. So we had a blast
1:42.8	talking about foreign policy,
1:44.7	about personal life experiences and philosophies,
1:48.1	talking about current events,
1:49.3	talking about cigars and vacations.
1:51.1	We talked about a bunch of stuff.
1:52.4	So a really informative and fun conversation.
1:54.8	We talked about different perspectives and opinions
1:57.8	on taxing and the government's role in that and uh so it was just
2:03.5	a really really fun conversation i know i always say i'm going to keep these intro shorts uh and i never do
2:08.1	so this time i'm actually going to keep this intro short so if you guys like the show please retweet it
2:15.0	share it posted wherever this uh all my shows are open source so
2:19.2	if you guys want to share it somewhere or post it uploaded somewhere uh feel free you know
2:24.4	it's much more important to me to just get the the show out there and get the information out
2:28.4	there and get these what i find interesting conversations out there than it is to try to have
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