I was trying to say
EAT A BEACH OF DICKS
early red pill (for retroactive look)
"The Last Circle" ties a lot of threads together
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/last_circle/0.htm
"stranger than fiction"
has "his" finger prints on "virtually" everything
Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) – USA
Project : Virtual Case File – Project Trilogy
Date : Apr 2005 Cost : $170M USD
"Despite assurances given to Congress that the project was proceeding, the project was in serious trouble and was eventually deemed unfit for use. The project was ultimately scrapped in 2005 and the FBI started out again with a completely new project (Sentinel)"
Sauce:
http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=1964
"While Depew and his team prepared to communicate the processes that define the FBI to SAIC engineers, Mueller, Dies, and Chiaradio recruited a seasoned IT program manager."
Sherry Higgins encountered an FBI culture “where you do what the director tells you; you don’t question that.”
"Before coming to the FBI, C.Z. (“Sherry”) Higgins, a 29-year veteran of AT&T and Lucent, was running the help desk at the Technology Command and Control Center for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. As project management executive for the Office of the Director, Higgins was brought in to create the Office of Program Management. Higgins’s new office would centralize IT management and oversee, develop, and deploy the bureau’s most expensive, complex, and risky projects. But her most important assignment was to manage Trilogy."
Sauce:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/who-killed-the-virtual-case-file
“I’m totally accountable for that,” she acknowledged. “We talked a long time about could he play the role of project manager and still be customer advocate. And we felt like he could.”
Higgins and Depew had developed a rapport quickly. Just a couple of weeks after she started work at FBI headquarters, Depew invited her to the Thursday “board meeting”—pizza and beer with his team at a neighborhood joint. As the group started walking to the restaurant, Higgins, surrounded by agents in dark suits and sunglasses, asked them to stop so she could savor the moment. “I have arrived,” she announced. “I’m on Pennsylvania Avenue with men in black!”