Scott Bennett person
also: Bennett, Second Lieutenant Scott Bennett, Army officer, whistleblower, defense contractor
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Claims (16)
Scott Bennett member_of
Booz Allen Hamilton book_quoted
“Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 8:34
Scott Bennett member_of
United States Central Command book_quoted
“Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 8:34
Scott Bennett member_of
11th Psychological Operations Battalion book_quoted
“Although it meant relocating my entire life from D.C. to Florida, I did it. I informed an Army battalion, 11th Psychological Operation Battalion in Washington, D.C. area and began the process of transferring to CENTCOM. I was given a specia…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 31:30
Scott Bennett member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“83-page military whistleblowing report, which influenced Edward Snowden's decision to circumvent Congress and release his information directly to the American people. The report was written by an Army officer and psychological warfare analy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 6:08
Scott Bennett member_of
Booz Allen Hamilton host_asserted
“terrorist threat finance and to formulate recommendations to improve functionality. This meant identifying duplicative and unproductive operations within the agencies, developing plans timetables for eliminating them, and synthesizing the b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 35:38
Scott Bennett member_of
United States Central Command host_asserted
“and flew down with him personally to CENTCOM. And I was given temporary housing at McDeal. I arranged to live on base in order to facilitate my army unit transfer and also to be safer. I had a TSSCI, which meant I was at the top of the terr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 31:58
Scott Bennett worked_with
Edward Garcia host_asserted
“after being the first person in CENTCOM's history to test out of a prior mandatory beginning and intermediate course. However, the missing component of subtle delicacy and psychological complexity was applied by a guy by the name of Edward …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 40:31
Scott Bennett worked_with
Martin Mitchell host_asserted
“after being the first person in CENTCOM's history to test out of a prior mandatory beginning and intermediate course. However, the missing component of subtle delicacy and psychological complexity was applied by a guy by the name of Edward …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 40:31
Scott Bennett worked_with
Mike Furlong host_asserted
“was outrageous. I also had an odd feeling of something bigger lurking in the background. Back at my battalion, the brigade commander made a surprise visit and informed us of an upcoming policy change in the army, largely due to negative sti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 43:32
Scott Bennett submitted_report_to
Colonel Burley host_asserted
“communications, i.e. psychological operations. After hearing this, the author wrote a lengthy report addressing psychological warfare impact for policy changes that would have on troops and enemies. It was submitted up the chain of command …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 44:32
Sarah Sweeney prosecuted
Scott Bennett host_asserted
“So he's awaiting trial. The prosecutor, Ms. Sarah Sweeney, invented several different scenarios and had him followed and engaged in, according to him, illegal harassment. She was later disciplined for causing one prosecutor to commit suicid…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 48:09
Mark Brewer testified
Scott Bennett host_asserted
“The ironic was the fact that I had executed his job as part of a top secret plan duties that had already been agreed upon by Booz Allen Hamilton with the U.S. government. Although the military protocol expert witness, Major Mark Brewer, had…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 51:56
Scott Bennett exposed
CIA book_quoted
“Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 8:34
Scott Bennett member_of
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“U.S. Special Operations Command, and U.S. Central Command in D.C. and in Florida. The report answers the following. Why did Eric Snowden feel he had to immediately go public? What connects Booz Allen, Hamilton, the NSA, the CIA, UBS, the Un…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 6:40
Scott Bennett exposed
UBS book_quoted
“Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 8:34
Scott Bennett forecasted
Benghazi attack host_asserted
“communications, i.e. psychological operations. After hearing this, the author wrote a lengthy report addressing psychological warfare impact for policy changes that would have on troops and enemies. It was submitted up the chain of command …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 44:32
Mentions (68)
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I know that that person was a friend of yours, so I don't want to say anything. Yeah, it's well, that person, there was a little bit of conflict between that person and and the colonel. So I know I didn't want to. And that's OK. But I'll ju…
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83-page military whistleblowing report, which influenced Edward Snowden's decision to circumvent Congress and release his information directly to the American people. The report was written by an Army officer and psychological warfare analy…
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Entrapped by the CIA, whose identity was discovered by Snowden during his time with CIA in Geneva, Switzerland. Who are Booz Allen Hamilton players? Edward Snowden, Scott Bennett, Mike McConnell, and James Clapper. Who are the National Secu…
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Snowden went public because he had no choice. We discovered what had happened to Second Lieutenant Scott Bennett when he filed reports through official channels and knew the only chance to warn Americans was by telling them. Booz Allen Hami…
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Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…
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terrorist threat finance connection. And for those of you asking, he was an army reservist. So he was civilianly employed by Booz Allen Hamilton. Ironically, Birkenfeld and Bennett ended up in the same unit in the same prison and compared n…
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has even been questioned in the terrorist finance UBS Birkenfeld CIA Booz Allen Hamilton connection ever. Clapper made the least untruthful statement before Congress when he lied about Snowden's NSA monitoring of Americans and failed to dis…
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basically come to the conclusion that there's no organic terrorist organizations. They basically are all created, funded, trained by intelligence services. The real story revolves around a whistleblowing report written by a U.S. Army office…
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which wasted tens of millions of dollars and exhausted our nation to the point of fatigue. The Army officer had extensive experience at U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Central Command, and the State Department in the Counterterrorism …
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T-I-M-U-S, with the Armed Services Organization, whose central mission was to combat, destroy, and prevent terrorist threat finance operations and networks. This organization was U.S. Central Command's terrorist threat finance team, managed…
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in the same prison, down the hall from each other. And upon seeing and discovering our individual stories formed a revelation that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Here's where the story takes a turn towards bizarre and makes the wise…
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and flew down with him personally to CENTCOM. And I was given temporary housing at McDeal. I arranged to live on base in order to facilitate my army unit transfer and also to be safer. I had a TSSCI, which meant I was at the top of the terr…
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I was trained and worked in every dimension, product, and agency, which interfaced with terrorist financial networks and operations. I also found myself headbutting against worshipers of mediocrity and bureaucracy and the status quo as a go…
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He goes on to say that he despises simpletons, weaklings, blah, blah, blah. I had proven leadership skills. I despise bureaucratic inefficiencies. It was a very volatile chemistry of personalities in the unit when I showed up. He also goes …
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would wreck his relationship at this unit because he was getting into things that made a lot of people uncomfortable. The Swiss bank, like UBS and HSBC, had in fact been financing terrorists and the intelligence community was concealing it.…
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Nevermind national security, I cannot express here the vast knowledge and experience I absorbed while on this adventure, only to say that is quite the voyage. He goes on to disparage the interworkings of the intelligence community and how h…
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do his job. The terrorist enemy doesn't hit us where we're strong or protected, but where we're the weakest and most vulnerable. That was his attitude. I went into the job as a terrorist threat finance analyst to examine, probe, and dissect…
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interagency operations center also known sometimes as the joint interagency group and work with an assortment of government agencies including the state department treasury justice homeland security cia immigrations and customs and others t…
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terrorist threat finance and to formulate recommendations to improve functionality. This meant identifying duplicative and unproductive operations within the agencies, developing plans timetables for eliminating them, and synthesizing the b…
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I've been there, I know. Since they had formed a nest in CENTCOM and built up a bureaucratic culture, immediately after September 11, 2001, in typical bureaucracy, they viewed each worker and task of their particular agency as essential, re…
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Since one thing military personnel and bureaucrats or their subcontractors are aware of, bureaucrats hate to lose power to the private sector. The unfortunate result was a military government intelligence community dysfunctionality with reg…
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It was a surreal turf war between military commanders fighting for power, government agencies occupying space without really producing anything, and private sector contractors trying to work within the dynamics. Most offensive to me as a mi…
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was extending the killing, maiming, and suffering of military personnel by dragging out the war unnecessarily. By wasting time, resources, and refusing information about the Swiss banks, such as UBS, which the terrorists used to finance the…
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My attempts to synthesize the intelligence and triangulate the Swiss banks like UBS as a hub between Iranian, European terrorist networks, as well as design psychological operation campaigns, I was regularly blocked and discouraged from del…
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In order to avoid infecting young soldiers' minds with ambitious contradictory propaganda was also scorned. It seemed endangering the mission by crippling soldiers with the paralysis of moral confusion on the battlefield and more acceptable…
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seem to be unofficially apply political correctness non-judgmentally to all issues requiring judgment. You can hear people all day long on X talk about this happening after 9-11. Although I honestly believed and still do that my application…
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was helping military commanders formulate better strategies and operations, as well as improving interagency intelligence sharing, I soon discovered how much it was also feared. It seemed rocking the boat was gaining the attention of people…
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Arranged and paid for by Booz Allen Hamilton, I was stopped in my car at the front gate, arrested at gunpoint by military police, taken against my will, and interrogated for 12 hours under conditions that would have been defined as torturou…
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after being the first person in CENTCOM's history to test out of a prior mandatory beginning and intermediate course. However, the missing component of subtle delicacy and psychological complexity was applied by a guy by the name of Edward …
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had now shed the blood of one of their own and shamed America. Despite my being a U.S. Army officer and counter-terrorist defense contractor, despite my having worked at the State Department, U.S. Special Operations Command, the Pentagon, d…
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by a rude Air Force policeman of incorrectly filling out my on-base housing application forms and not properly registering my firearm locked in a gun safe, even though they had only arrived the week prior and had already been acknowledged a…
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from an officer friend who had called me from Afghanistan that this flyer had been sent out to every military base around the world. With this, I had officially been given a burn notice as my identity and clearance had been shared with ever…
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That smearing my name had begun before my explanation of the situation had been heard. Judging by language used to describe me, somehow a crime was being cobbled together, causing my nose to wrinkle at the once flavored aroma of military pa…
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He goes on to talk about the whole Valerie Flame incident. He says, in a well-protected sequence of moves, I was then handed a pink violation ticket, an unusually long complex of series of warrants and letters removing me from the base and …
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was outrageous. I also had an odd feeling of something bigger lurking in the background. Back at my battalion, the brigade commander made a surprise visit and informed us of an upcoming policy change in the army, largely due to negative sti…
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at the State Department Counterterrorism Unit, and he knew and knew that he had been fired and locked out of his office because of CIA complaints. He was too efficient in his special operations endeavors. Interesting, later that year, Rolli…
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We cannot give away our rights. We have to be an active part of the government. There are some things worth dying for, unquote. So then Bennett, the author of the book, says he agrees with them. Snowden was being interviewed when he said th…
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Brian Williams a letter, and I'll quote a little bit of the letter. You have filed a FOIA request for any and all material relating to Snowden's claim that he filed numerous letters and emails with the Office of General Counsel, Inspector G…
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Any other materials relating to Scott Bennett's whistleblowing reports relating to Edward Snowden, Booz Allen Hamilton, UBS, Brad Birkenfeld, the NSA, CIA, and the terrorist threat finance operations? And he goes on and gives them some more…
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as well as top secret documents smuggled out of the U.S. intelligence and military agencies by Booz Allen Hamilton and stored in their McLean, Virginia facility. I know I was a Defense Department courier. I read it. Michael Hastings at Roll…
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by an explosive charge that blew up his Mercedes Benz car. The conspirators in this story were, of course, the political intelligence community elite who operated in complete secrecy with no accountability. They were immunized from any ques…
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that Bennett discovered, guaranteed not only that they would not succeed, but that their incompetence or corruption would be exposed for the treason that it was. It seemed after my initial interviews on October 1st, 2014, which was televise…
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who had been briefed on the case, which means he was handed it from the CIA. What Isikov neglected to disclose was that he had been given this material a year before that by Bennett, and instead of reporting it to the American people, coord…
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And despite multiple requests, Isikoff refused to return any of the documents that was shared with him. Another final and fascinating discovery that Bennett made after he was released from jail was that the Department of Justice and the Bur…
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Creating ideological inspired hatred to the point of wanting them to rebel against the government. Bennett discovered that after he had been placed accidentally into a halfway house upon his release from federal prison, this material, he ma…
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Now, I've read his complaint here, but basically he makes the point that using this type of curriculum in the prison is a safety hazard for all Americans. So going on past his complaint, the next section is labeled Brad Birkenfeld. As the s…
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of $104 million. So we've done our report. We're going to let the guy out early. We're going to pay him off. And we're going to pretend like none of that exists because they gave him an NDA that he couldn't talk about it. On September 25th,…
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I had not ever seen nor knew anything about this 2012 report. A reasonable assumption would have been since the Senate had just published the report claiming that it did an exhaustive investigation and never mentioned any of the information…
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must be released in order to clarify hidden finance connections. He has some information on that, and he lists four things. The Zacharias Moussaoui's laptop, which contains a database of Saudi funders of both al-Qaeda and ISIS. A Swiss bank…
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The very same federal judge appointed by George Bush Jr. that presided over his case in Florida, who ignored all of the legal motions and imprisoned him. I could only shake my head for the umpteenth time as I saw once again a tragic comedy …
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who was Birkenfeld's, you know, now that he's a millionaire, he could afford a PR person. Jessalyn, sorry, Jessalyn Radak. She was also Edward Snowden's attorney. Radak had been instructed by Birkenfeld to contact me regarding the military …
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Glenn Greenwald Snowden's biographer and distributor of intelligence cables and provided his assistant Andrew Fishman with all of the documents and most importantly the CIA Snowden Birkenfeld connections in Switzerland Fishman responded wit…
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Can you prove that the banker targeted by the CIA for drunk driving was Birkenfeld? Bennett, so rare does anybody respond to him, replies immediately, yes. Send him the proof where Birkenfeld had provided and expected an avalanche of respon…
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It was as if the neocons in government from the Bush-Obama-Clinton administration and their androgynous minions in the church, media, military had secretly robbed Bennett of the images that he had of America that basically had stolen, kicke…
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But it was through their efforts and his understanding of what was actually happening on the inside that he felt like that entire myth that, you know, kind of what we, those of us that spend in the military, invest our entire life in had be…
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Warhamster, did you have something? No, I just popped in about five minutes ago. So I didn't know you were cutting it short. Yeah. I'm sure it was wonderful. Well, we were just talking about Bennett and the rest of his story and who all he …
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today of what the actual guts of the accusation. We kind of read Bennett's version or understanding of what was going on. And so I thought I'd take today just to kind of lay out the entire issue that he was involved with, because as you guy…
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in any way in his book, in public statements, in his testimony, nor was he ever asked in his testimony because they don't want to disclose that to the American public. Anything about the terrorist funding that comes specifically from Scott …
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hunting terrorist in the CENTCOM SOCOM state department arena he was comparing the list of entities that Birkenfeld made public to information that he had that indicated some of the same entities that Birkenfeld with these offshore…
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fake companies were also included in terrorist funding. So that's where that overlap comes. What Bennett did was put Birkenfield's list down compared to his list, and he's the one that found the overlap. So let's go back to our summary of w…
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Bennett is alleging. According to Bennett, Birkenfeld provided him with extensive documentations, including 19,000 UBS account names, cell phone numbers, hotel records, meeting dates, emails, bank statements, WikiLeaks cables, reports, lett…
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Bennett described Birkenfeld's information as a ring of power. Bennett claims that Birkenfeld initially exposed the UBS terror financing connections to the U.S. Department of Justice, intel agencies, and Senator Carl Levin's permanent subco…
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The testimony focused only on tax evasion and money laundering and would not ask any questions about any of the other uses of that money. So Bennett alleges that Birkenfeld $104 million settlement was basically a payoff to keep him quiet.…
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Because Bennett had shared with him the terrorist links while they were in prison. But obviously Birkenfeld, who is a very materialistic type of guy, and only has morals when it's to his best interest to have morals. And so Bennett's...…
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allegation that it was basically a payoff makes a lot of sense when you take all of that information into perspective. He was going to be set up with a nice nest egg, and he wasn't going to ruffle any feathers. But Bennett claims that CENTC…
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Bennett alleges that this was done for politics. And this led up, you know, was in the same timeframe, 2005, 2006, 2007 to the 2008 crisis. And obviously, protecting this information protected CIA terrorist links and their funding. He also,…
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that hiding this information and the links to terrorists facilitated much more death of our military as these operations continued on. In some of the writings leading up to Benghazi, Bennett had discovered some of that pieces of that operat…
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On the other hand, you have Bennett, who obviously was set up. As soon as he started making rumblings, you have to have in each of these cases a corrupt prosecutor in order to have those outcomes. And that's the piece that I see in all of t…