It was just a few minutes before 1500 when I finished reading over all the data that Marty, Eric, AG Dunne, Phil Fitzpatrick and Allen Meadows had delivered. Connie and Kitty must have typed in the data at lightning speed. Eric and Marty were still waiting on me to finish.

            ‘’There is something terribly wrong with all this data. These agency directors and officials were planning something big. I think you know what needs to be done and what I want done, but let me reinforce it,’’ I said.

            ‘’I want all the emails and texts from these directors and managers, supervisors and any official connected to the SWAT teams. Especially, include any texts, emails between the agencies in regarding SWAT teams and all weapon and ammo purchases subpoenaed. I want a list of all SWAT team members and to find out where they were trained, if they had any specific training at all,’’ I said.

            ‘’I am almost sure that JBG did not train any of people from these agencies as a group, but I will be able to find out with the list of names,’’ I said.

            ‘’It is possible that they were part of a police department that that went through the training and moved to a government job and started in house training on their own,’’ I added.

            ‘’Take the subpoena request to Alyssa Cotton down in Section 12 and tell her I said to put a rush on it. Plus, I will send her a text,’’ I said.

            ‘’Marty, do you have investigators that can connect all the dots together once we get all the data?’’ I asked.

             I would have loved to have had more time to go over the data to develop a plan for the news conference, but it was not to be. I was going to have to wing it – off the cuff.

            A pee break and a coffee refill with a handful of notes I made it to the White House news room.

            ‘’Harry, I am sorry I am running late but I have been tied up on international calls. As soon as I make an opening statement we can start.”

            ‘’The last few days have been hectic, disappointing and tragic from many places. The first one I am going to address was in Kentucky. That said, Harry please run the film,’’ I said.

When the film ended, ‘’There are no printable words that describe my feelings about what happened. Anger, revulsion, infuriating – does not even begin to cover it,’’ I said.

‘’For a recap of events as we as we currently think they happened – as the investigation is completed it may change some of the minor details.  Seven miles southeast of Lexington Kentucky, a seventy-five-year-old farmer John Moses and his sixty-five-year-old wife Helen Moses were spreading shed-stored chicken manure from their commercial chicken farming operation.’’

‘’Their farming operation comprised of eighty thousand chickens and three hundred cattle in a feedlot operation with four hundred acres in alfalfa, corn, wheat and soybeans.”

‘’A hired farm hand did the heavy work with the cattle and the chickens and was furnished housing on the farm for him and his family.  Jim Moses did that work on the weekends, so the farm hand had weekends off. Jim also helped on the farm during planting and harvesting. Jim’s day job was in town as manager of one of the machine shops,’’ I said.

‘’The Westwood Development bordered the Moses farm and was downwind on Saturday.  One of the residents was newly elected county commissioner Gilbert Cummings, who was furious about the odor and called Paul Attworth – the local EPA office manager – and proceeded to read him the riot act. Paul and Gilbert both had sons that played basketball and football at the local school,‘’ I said. 

‘’At 1000 a forty agent SWAT team in twenty vehicles crossed the fields and stopped both tractors, one driven by John Moses – seventy-five years old – and the other driven by Helen Moses – sixty -five years old. The equipment was nearly as old,’’ I said.

‘’The agents pulled them from the tractors without allowing them to properly disconnect the transmission and PTO components, allowing the equipment to continue to move forward several feet,’’ I said.

‘’John Moses and the agent that pulled him off the tractor went under the rear wheel of the tractor, crushing both of John’s legs and one of the agents. They were pinned under the equipment for 30 minutes before they could be removed,’’ I said.

‘’Helen Moses was not as lucky. The agent had a MP5 in his hand, the selector set on full auto with a forty round clip. In the process of pulling her off the seat and the continued forward motion of the tractor and then falling, the agent pulled the trigger emptying the forty rounds into Hellen,’’ I said.

‘’She was killed instantly. All this was telecast live by the media that was alerted and accompanied the SWAT teams to the farm,’’ I said.

‘’There are multiple mistakes that happened here. First, there is no justifiable reason a SWAT team should have responded to an odor complaint. Second, why a forty person SWAT team? Third, why were the agents carrying an MP5 to begin with on an odor complaint? Why was the weapon on full auto? Why were they carrying forty round clips?’’ I said.

‘’This was no accident; it was planned from the beginning. There were discussions about the raid before they left the staging area, before the weapons were issued,’’ I said.

“There were five supervisors in the planning and on site as the plans went FUBAR.  Not one of those supervisors challenged the legality of such a massive response for an odor complaint; NOT ONE!’’ I said. ‘’To say I was angry when I found about this is an understatement.’’

‘’When I read the preliminary report, I wondered why the EPA had SWAT teams. And then a thousand more questions appeared.’’

‘’I called on the director of the GAO to run several audits,’’ I said.

‘’I learned that that the EPA, Social Security, Department of Energy, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Education, The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Interior had purchased over five hundred and fifty million dollars in weapons, tactical gear and ammunition in the last three years,’’ I said.

‘’Why?’’ I asked the gathered media knowing I would get no answer.

‘’The EPA pushes permits and paper – why did they need one hundred SWAT teams and five and a half million rounds of ammunition for M16 and two and a quarter million rounds of 9mm for MP5 and pistols?’’ I asked.

‘’It gets worse, those eight agencies had over eight hundred twenty, thirty, and forty member SWAT teams.  Between them they had over fifty million rounds of ammunition. Why? There is no justifiable reason,’’ I said.

‘’Social Security pushes paper; they cannot justify even one SWAT team. The same goes for the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture – all more paper pushers,’’ I said.

‘’The Department of Interior and the IRS may have a need for a few armed officers, but not two hundred SWAT teams and certainly not millions of rounds of ammo,’’ I said.

‘’ATF no longer polices tobacco; it’s all done on paper with permits, applications and with computers and a mapping system for inspections and compliance,’’ I said.

‘’It no longer chases bootleggers through the hills, it’s legal to brew your own beer and hard liquor. They are never first to any criminal activity – they show up in time for the media blast after the local police and their SWAT teams have everything under control,’’ I said.

‘’The only thing they do is harass law-abiding citizens trying to exercise their constitutional rights and law-abiding gun dealers with SWAT raids to inspect paper work, terrorizing their customers and shutting down gun dealers over minor paperwork errors. Yet they return only eighty percent of the required background checks in the required time frame,’’ I said.

‘’I ordered the FBI, US Marshall service, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security to seize all weapons, all tactical gear and all ammo from those agencies,’’ I said.

‘’It just gets worse. There are over four thousand weapons – M16s, MP5s and pistols – lost, stolen or otherwise unaccounted for – and no sign of any investigations or paperwork of discipline for the assigned personnel,’’ I said.

‘’The FBI is going to investigate the missing weapons as a criminal event,’’ I said.

‘’I ordered the EPA closed and seized all funds from all accounts and had all employees terminated. Before you go screaming to the moon, the EPA will be back with next year’s budget,’’ I said.

‘’Power of the executive branch allows me to change the funding direction. The seized EPA funds were transferred to the Social Security trust fund. minus one last paycheck for the former EPA employees,’’ I said.

‘’All rules and regulations will be reviewed, eliminated or updated and all policies and procedures upgraded. All current EPA employees will not be eligible for the new department next October. I do not believe any amount of deprogramming will remove the tactics that they have been trained with for who knows how many years,’’ I said.

‘’The ATF is also closed with its funding seized. Critical parts of the ATF responsibilities will be transferred to the FBI. I can assure you that background checks will be done in a timely manner and on time and other critical issues will be corrected,’’ I said.

‘’All SWAT members and their supervisors and agency directors will be terminated in all those agencies and there will be other investigations as to how this was allowed to happen. Never again will these agencies be allowed to have SWAT teams or this kind and amounts of weapons and ammunition,’’ I said.

‘’The next item is that last week the USS Nevada – a nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine traveling at fifteen knots at a depth of seven hundred feet collided with an object, causing substantial damage and injuries,’’ I said.

‘’The Nevada surfaced to inspect the damage. While surfacing, there were sounds of another vessel imploding and sinking. While they were inspecting their damage, a debris field appeared around them. They recovered some of the debris. There were no bodies in the debris,’’ I said.

‘’The debris indicated the object they had collided with was the North Korean submarine 830.5. North Korea and China had been aggressively looking for the sub several days before the collision.” I said.

‘’From evidence recovered in the debris field, we believe the 830.5 crew had been dead for several days and the sub was drifting in the thermals in the current,’’ I said.

‘’The Nevada was having electrical issues and was returning to Japan for repairs at the time of the collision. Assault landing ships the USS Wake Island, the USS Millington and frigate USS Harrington were dispatched to escort the Nevada to Japan,’’ I said.

‘’All the recovered debris was turned over to the Chinese Ambassador in Japan when the Nevada docked to be returned to North Korea,’’ I said.

‘’Are you confused yet? There is more – it has been a very busy last few days,’’ I said.

‘’At midnight Friday night two B21 bombers on a night training mission over Ohio with four other B21s crashed into each other and crashed into the Carlisle Industrial Park. There were no civilians killed on the ground. All eight crew members were killed,’’ I said.

‘’The Carlisle Industrial Park had been closed for several years. The property was being discussed for renovation either as residential development, new malls or possibly as a new home for the new and growing tech industry,’’ I said.

‘’The crew stayed with the planes, guiding them away from residential areas. All members could have ejected but didn’t. In my eyes they are heroes and will be awarded medals that will do little to subdue the grief their families are suffering.,’’ I said.

‘’The planes were hit with small arms fire from a terrorist group from Pakistan that were in an apartment building outside of Carlisle. Shortly after the crash, the group sent a message to their Pakistan controller that was broken by our intelligence services. The weapons they had used were recovered under the apartment building,’’ I said.

‘’The group was tracked and arrested boarding a direct flight to Pakistan at a Canadian airport by the Canadian Mounty intelligence forces. We have asked for them to be extradited back to the US for trial ASAP,’’ I said.

‘’However, the Canadian government is refusing at this time to do so because they are afraid those individuals may receive the death penalty if convicted,’’ I said.

‘’Obviously there are some hurdles that must be crossed. This isn’t the first time there have been conflicts with the Canadians with criminal suspects. These conflicts have the potential to cause serious difficulties to our relations and trade agreements with the Canadians,’’ I said.

Carl handed me several notes as he was direct to earlier.

‘’I need to take a fifteen – minute break at this time to deal with these notes. When I come back, I will take some questions for no more than thirty minutes, so make every one of them count,’’ I said.

‘’Harry, check with the kitchen to see if it has any fresh donuts and hot coffee for this group while I am gone,’’ I said. I knew they did as I had ordered them before the news conference started. I also ordered them to wait ten minutes to place them on the table. I didn’t want them to have too long to pig out.

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