Dr. Eric Haseltine
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And also when you get to the very top, because one of the characters is the FBI director.
And what is the FBI director in this story concerned with?
Protecting the FBI at all costs.
And I will tell you, having been at that level in the government.
You know what we really spend our time on is optics.
Okay, this thing happened.
How do we spin it to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post?
How do we spin it and turn a negative into a positive with Congress?
What are we going to tell the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, so they grow our budget, right?
And how do we take down a rival using this?
That's all we spend our time on at the very top of the government.
I guarantee you that is what happens.
And so that's what happens with the FBI director.
Yeah.
You know, when you see that woman and how she interacts and how cynically, how cynical she is and how pragmatic and self-serving.
That is real.
That is a synthesis of real people that I have known.
It's very real.
And so it's a glimpse, just like the new science of UFO is a glimpse inside the mind of an intelligence analyst.
And any other time that was all open source data.