Days ago, I published the prologue to my new book, Normal Channels: Blocked or Compromised. It recounted the story of how, as a 17-year-old, I delivered a confidential memorandum on the Iran-Contra affair to Rabbi Meir Kahane.
The first question this raises is: How?
How does a 17-year-old gain access to such information? How does a youth enter that world?
The story begins two years earlier.
In 1985, at age 15, I left high school to accept a position as a staffer in the U.S. Senate. Pictured here is my Senate employee ID card.
That Senate position was not a mere internship; it was my entry point. I was soon researching foreign security assistance and attending intelligence committee briefings, receiving my first exposure to D.C. parapolitics.
My work in the Senate served as a gateway to my next role: working with the individuals engaged in a quiet, vicious bureaucratic war with the CIA.
I began working with the Federation for American Afghan Action, directed by a West Point graduate and Special Forces officer named Andrew Eiva. Eiva was the man who had penetrated the CIA’s covert arms pipeline in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He discovered the truth.
The truth, on which I helped research and lobby, was that the CIA was “condemning the Afghans to a slow death”.
The truth was that the agency’s “pipeline” was so ineffective that the mujahedin had only enough ammunition for their heavy machine guns to use them in automatic fire for one minute per month.
This was my first direct observation of covert operations. I watched as the clear, voted-upon will of Congress—and the American people—was “rendered almost completely ineffective through delays, misdirection, incompetence, or sometimes even deliberate obstruction” by an entrenched bureaucracy.
This is the world that provided the parapolitical framework to see the exact same patterns in the Iran-Contra affair, the 1998 Palestinian Authority first strike preparations in Judea and Samaria, the COVID-19 rollout, and the coordinated pretext of October 7th.
Chapter 1 of Normal Channels: Blocked or Compromised is now live on my Substack.
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This is the account of how this work began.
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