Eric Garland
@ericgarland
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Strategic intelligence, competitive analysis, opinions on bass players
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Joined October 2008
Czech Intelligence! Do you know the history of one of the least known, most effective spy services?
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Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia perhaps do not evoke the average person's curiosity when it comes to intelligence agencies. But this enigmatic nation goes to show that if a country has...
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RT @ICEgov: An underground California night club bust takes nine illegal aliens into custody with drug and scammed gift card seizures. Off….
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BOOM: Five arrested in St Louis drug conspiracy that links to Mexican Cartels
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The indictment accuses the men of a cocaine conspiracy that lasted from October 2024 to July 2025.
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RT @USAO_MIE: Alien from Wuhan, China Enters No Contest Plea to Smuggling Biological Materials into the U.S. for Her Work at a University o….
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RT @DNIGabbard: Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right. Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their….
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RT @DOLOIG: New DOL-OIG Audit Report - COVID-19: ETA Needs to Improve Its Oversight of States' Efforts to Identify Fraud Using Deceased Per….
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RT @SDOHnews: Dayton man sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for purchasing opioid cutting agent from China to distribute throughout….
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DAYTON, Ohio – Nykiha Astin, 42, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 135 months in prison for purchasing an opioid cutting agent from China.
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Telemedicine and genetic testing fraud. man, there are lots of both! . Good to clean that stuff up.
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BOSTON – An Alabama-based doctor has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a $6 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment...
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RT @SecScottBessent: Before the war in Ukraine, less than 1% of India’s oil came from Russia. Now it is 42%. The system is allowing India….
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If you have a work permit for medicine and you are from Algeria or Japan, you're not here to demand access to national security facilities using a bogus non-profit. Sorry.
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A New York-based nonprofit that's unregistered with IRS has foreign nationals demanding access to DHS facilities. Seems like espionage.
Random people, regardless of the profession they claim, cannot just show up unannounced to our ICE facilities and expect to be granted access. That would be insane and puts our detainees, staff, and law enforcement safety at risk. We have secure facilities that provide all
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Hanaway is a former U.S. Attorney, and manifestly qualified for the position of Missouri Attorney General.
Gov. Kehoe appoints Catherine Hanaway as the first women Missouri Attorney General. She replaces Andrew Bailey as he heads to Washington, DC, to serve as co-deputy director of the FBI. Hanaway was a U.S. district prosecutor near St. Louis #moleg
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One of my biggest blind spots of the past decade was failing to see how many American citizens were used as disposable elicitation cutouts by foreigners.
Elicitation is used by more than just foreign agents--it's used by anyone trying to get more information from you than you would give normally.
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There's nothing more American than opposing slavery. I'm glad to see leaders getting back to this policy. It needs to be zero-tolerance.
Today, @Sec_Noem announces the designation of new Chinese industry sectors as high-priority for enforcement under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. America adds steel, copper, lithium, caustic soda, and red dates as high-priority sectors for enforcement under the Uyghur
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Elicitation is used by more than just foreign agents--it's used by anyone trying to get more information from you than you would give normally.
Has a stranger ever tried to inflate your ego? It could be elicitation. Elicitation is a set of techniques used by foreign agents to extract information from you. To learn the warning signs of elicitation, read the CSIS Travel Security Guide:
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It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.
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RT @ericgarland: Economic Espionage! How much do you know about 18 USC § 1831–and how are you making yourself a hard target for it? https:/….
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Let's get familiar with the text of the statute under which the Federal Government might prosecute economic espionage. Details count, so let's have a look!
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RT @ericgarland: Intelligence History! . How much do you know about the very first permanent intelligence service? Which country do you thi….
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Where does the modern intelligence agency come from? One is always tempted to think of the Russians, especially with the Tsar having employed a secret police service in the 19th Century called the...
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The Czech officially placed the *only* foreign agent within the CIA--and how he did it was NSFW.
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