@GreggPhillips asked to explain the #CounterIntelOp

So, So….. (carefully thinking about how to proceed.

If we gain intel that there's a bad guy doing something… We… You have several choices. You can go in and arrest the guy and stop him from killing people, um, but if it's something more sophisticated, um, and it's something where there's an infrastructure or something in place, that is causing that problem and even if you take that guy out, it's not going to fix the bigger problem. And so, creating the ability to counter the bad guys is what Counter Intelligence is….

In this particular case, there were multiple agencies working to counter the bad guys. This operation has been ongoing since on or about February 2021. It's been going on because we surfaced it. Our analysts surfaced the information. What's different about this one, as opposed to other times when we might surface information is that we were actually involved in the operation. We were communicating with people on both sides. We were communicating regularly with the federal agencies involved and we were providing them additional information that was relative to that communication. So there was a lot of things that were happening in this one that is not just like me taking a disk of the mules and handing it off to some FBI agent in, you know, wherever… St Louis. It wasn't like that.

This was something that they needed to actually embrace and work on. They weren't trying to necessarily solve a crime. What they were trying to do is prevent it from happening again. It is inside of that that this whole fiasco went haywire.

Patel, "Really. So, when you say they were countering the bad guys, where the bad guys performing an intel op on us too"?

Gregg, "Yes the bad guys were preforming on op on us, against America and this team was countering them".

#Pain