SIX YEARS LATER, GO BACK AND LOOK AT THOSE 64 DAYS AGAIN. WHAT IF WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE WRONG KIND OF OPERATION?
For six years people have asked:
Why wasn’t the Insurrection Act invoked?
Where was the military takeover?
Where was the giant announcement?
But what if none of that was the architecture because the hypothetical enemy wasn’t a country, an army or the American population? What if the mission was to identify and dismantle a distributed illicit transnational network money, facilitators, cyber infrastructure, trafficking organizations, corrupt actors and financial pipelines?