Brian Stern
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There are people trying to kill her, people trying to kill us.
This is dangerous stuff.
There's the land domain, the air domain, and the maritime domain.
The maritime domain is the most dangerous domain that anyone works in.
If I'm driving a boat and I blow an engine, I am swimming to Venezuela, where we came from, and they'll kill us.
Bad, right?
So we use that to our advantage.
got her onto land and then from there got her to an airplane and she flew.
I don't want to get into specific things that we did because we have other work that needs to happen.
It's fair to say that lots of different things were done to mask
Her physical signature, meaning her face is the big one, and also her digital signature as well.
There's a fingerprint that we all have, digital.
And one of the things that's never covered in press is the biometric threat, right?
When you go through customs at Heathrow, right, you just look at the camera.
The biometric threat is so real.
The Venezuelan intelligence service is extremely sophisticated.
Venezuelan has Russian radar.
Venezuela has all the very sophisticated things that a normal sovereign country can have.
Venezuela is a very wealthy country.
Maduro has driven it off a cliff, but that doesn't mean that they don't have resources.