It's a waste of time. [8] In a confidential police report from the early 2000s which was later leaked online,[9] Hunt's gang was said to include family members and the father of a well known reality TV star. (It has a blurb from Donald Rumsfeld: Wayne Simmons doesnt just write it. (By the way, I found this book through the O'Rielly Factor) Good Job Bill !!! Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features He knew of Simmons he consumed Fox News regularly and had figured Simmons might have been an obscure contractor at the agency. attacks in New York and the Pentagon and the Army Reserve response to them. San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. One gift that he did use was a set of maroon pajamas with "Much Better Thanks" embroidered on the left pocket. The book is currently difficult to obtain, as it was withdrawn by Amazon due to a complaint from Hunt's solicitors. He flipped to a binder tab marked Businesses. He showed me articles of incorporation for consulting firms bearing opaque names like WSS International and Phoenix Management. I Lost some sleep that night. And then, just like that, Simmons folded. He vowed to send me corroborating documents but never delivered them. . Simmons said, Why not? He paid Collins a couple hundred dollars for three days of media training. He includes proposals for solutions to organizational and operational problems. Disclaimer: I have been watching Col. Hunt's gravel-voiced analysis on Fox for years, and this book doesn't disappoint. His new book is Without Mercy, which he co-authored with R.J. Pineiro. He was living the life of the decorated patriot he was born to be. I hope Colonel Hunt will write another book, Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2021. Their method would be a good-cop/bad-cop interrogation, carried out where Simmons would least suspect it: on Facebook. Not only was Simmons a good talker, he was also courteous, dependable and willing to make the trek from his home in Annapolis, Md., to the bureau in Washington whenever he was needed. He was making up to six appearances a month, rarely straying from the administrations talking points. Click here to sign up for eAlerts from WRHI. . (His daughter, who is active in local politics, does his shopping.) (The agency declined to comment on the Simmons prosecution, except to say that it is working closely with the Justice Department on the case.) Before that, she held a number of high-ranking positions in the Defense Department and the Department of the Navy. Hopefully we will see more in this series. After retiring from the army, Hunt became a military analyst for the FOX News Channel and provided commentary for a variety of radio talk shows. 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He defended the enhanced-interrogation techniques employed by the Bush-era C.I.A. Welcome home Brother, as an ex enlisted scum with a couple of tours in VN you didnt think of the LBJ years and the implications. The better thrillers have combined strong male and female characters and this is no exception. Col. Hunt and Ms. Huntsinger have combined their real life backgrounds to provide a credible counter terrorism thriller. Remind me to send that Obama-voting-Mo a bucket of Tar-Tar sauce. M. spent about 40 years with the C.I.A., both on the staff and as a contract worker, ascending to its highest ranks. WITHOUT MERCY The loan was made from Sullivan's finance firm GC CO NO 102 to Hunt's business Hunt's (UK) Properties. The U.S. attorneys office shared with me a particularly troubling police report from January 2007. Nobody can do what the government says I did, fooling the F.B.I., C.I.A., D.O.D. . He is one tough soldier that Heart attack will only slow him down a tad. Contact PalmettoMornings@wrhi.com for booking information. Most recently he exercised 592 units of BKI stock worth $34,922 on 22 May 2020.. banged on his door just a few days before Hillary Clintons congressional testimony about Benghazi. As for the characters, I found them believable, a bit over the top, but it is a Don't pay any attention to the bad reviews. The C.I.A. NATO forces are battling the Taliban across Kandahar Province. He began to unspool his current version of events: He dropped out of Jacksonville State to join the Navy. Can I ask you something? Berntsen recalls Hunt saying. Location: United States. I am what Wayne was pretending to be, he says. Simmonss recruiters, whoever they may have been, likely blew air up his butt and mentioned the C.I.A. Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2013. Please tell them, Berntsen says. The unthinkable has happened: ISIS, covertly assisted by Pakistan's intelligence services, has . [26][non-primary source needed][27][28], In 2013, Hunt unsuccessfully tried to sue The Sunday Times, who three years earlier had exposed him as a violent "underworld king", with the judge stating that it was "reasonable to describe the claimant as a violent and dangerous criminal and the head of an organised crime group implicated in murder, drug trafficking and fraud". employee. Each one was accompanied by a map, their locations marked with a black X. I told him those didnt prove anything about the C.I.A. Colonel Tony Shaffer, author of The Last Line, and Ret. Surronunded Chaos and danger Christina learns how to shoot and Gibson learns patients. What You Dont Understand About Insurance. operative. again.. Filed under. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt laid the blame for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the Benghazi, Libya American mission on Hillary Clinton and the State Department: The State Department just allowed our guys to get killed. Despite overwhelming evidence, the case collapsed after a corrupt anti-corruption detective sent a dossier to prosecutors raising concerns about McKelvey, who was then investigated for two years (the investigation was found to be fatally flawed and McKelvey exonerated, with Detective Chief Superintendent Albert Patrick stating that he struggled to understand what McKelvey was being accused of). What problems do they have that I can solve? spent millions to make sure no one can see me, he said. A few weeks later, a producer from Fox called and asked if he would do a quick spot on Geraldo Riveras show. in 1999, which taught him to approach such epistemological quandaries the other way around. While he may have somehow been on the periphery of something, Ive seen and heard nothing to convince me he was a NOC. M. also notified Shine, the Fox senior programming executive; the Fox legal chief Dianne Brandi; and Neil Cavuto. (Republished from 2014) Lt. The story is told by two main characters that alternate in a first person account of the same events. After grabbing his cellphone, which Simmons believed to be the detonator, he forced Azizur-Rehman to stop the car and subdued him. Are they suitable to do what you want them to do? Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton's fate seems particularly cruel. Its the royal straight flush of spades. His vindication was coming soon, he promised. M. knew that didnt prove anything; Simmons most likely provided that description himself. Over lunch, it seemed to Clizbe that Simmons was oblivious to the routine butt-sniffing that C.I.A. He was a former C.I.A. of all ages. The program I was in was so black it made the black hole seem white., Fox News may have been surprised by the allegations, as were many close to Simmons, but doubts about his background had percolated for years within Clizbes social network of ex-spooks, and they began in earnest at that fateful lunch in 2010. To it's credit, Terror Red does so too. He asked Simmons what division of the C.I.A. "For example the Air Force just promoted its first four-star black officer, and they've been around for like 60 years. The F.B.I. . One reviewer thought this style of attack was impossible; nothing is impossible if the enemy is motivated. They arrived to find Syed Mohammed Azizur-Rehman, a 53-year-old taxi driver, lying face down on the street; nearby, they found Simmons screaming, He has a bomb! Simmons claimed that during a ride in Azizur-Rehmans cab, the driver started ranting about his hatred of America and announced that he had a bomb in the trunk. to gain real government contract work. Market data provided by Factset. ), which was the division of the C.I.A. After Manhattan has been hit with a nuclear bomb, the world is in shock: the destruction is biblical, leveling a square mile of NYC skyscrapers, and hundreds of thousands perish. Clizbe pointed out the irregularities in Simmonss biography, and M. became convinced he was a fraud. I never vetted a candidate by starting with the hypothesis that they werent qualified for a job, he says. We sat down at the kitchen table, and he produced a black binder, stuffed with documents. Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt told "Bill Hemmer Reports" Thursday that renaming military bases currently named after Confederate Civil War commanders is a "waste of time" and added . There was also the simple difficulty of proving a negative. M. alerted Paul Vallely, the retired two-star general who founded Stand Up America, an organization that promotes a conservative foreign-policy agenda through analysis on cable-news networks and talk radio. The book arrived this week. Shortly after the underwear bomber attack in Detroit, Simmons called Obama a boy king who emboldened terrorists and third-world despots. Simmons had served in the C.I.A. It is fast-paced, definitely entertaining. It is fast-paced, definitely entertaining. Nobody knew who we were. Foxes, regarded as verm, The American architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) was a major contributor to the eclectic style of the 19th century. He promised to introduce me to former colleagues and lawyers who would verify his stories, but those offers always fell to the side. Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013. The biography that Clizbe pieced together was breathtaking. The American economy is in chaos, riots and looting spark across the country, and our enemies prepare to press their attack. He was eventually hired by the C.I.A. Colonel Hunt served with distinction in the United States Army for 30 years. While he searched for a job, he sometimes paid the bills by working the phones at a venereal-disease hotline. David & Christine do well at counter-terror, Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2013. officer who could vouch for him. Maybe, he speculated, Simmons had been caught by some government agency on a drug charge and was recruited into working as a street asset. Col. David Hunt is recovering in the Hospital from a Heart Attack. Ever work with him? Then one ex-spook got suspicious. Contemporary Authors. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | After watching Col Hunt on TV for many years and knowing of his military experience, I felt this was a book of fiction I would really enjoy and it certainly hit the mark. But then, one morning, Berntsen was at the networks studios to make an appearance on a radio show, and he bumped into Simmons. Havas Lynx Group. Delivering an account of the U.S.'s failures in combatting terror, Hunt, a Fox TV News military analyst and retired army colonel, depicts a world of gutless politicians, bungling bureaucrats, deceitful allies and bleeding-heart liberals. Though Simmons had become well known to people in that right-wing media circle, Clizbe didnt know his name. Col. David Hunt (Ret.) Colonel David Hunt "The authenticity of the story makes the tale particularly terrifying, especially at a time when real-life international relations appear unstable." . Among those predicting a swift end to the war is Col. David Hunt, who joined News Talk 830 WCCO's Chad Hartman to discuss . officer, he told the Annapolis Police, and he advised them to call the White House or Fox News to vouch for him. Simmonss only other source of income was periodic financial support from his sister, Patricia Bradshaw. . Don't pay any attention to the bad reviews. Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. Retired Army Col. David Hunt, a military analyst RALEIGH As American and world leaders react to yet another deadly terrorist attack in London, one of the nation's leading authorities on anti-terrorism programs will speak Monday in Charlotte on ways that the city and state can better prepare to prevent or respond to terrorist attacks. I heard Col. David Hunt describe if for Bill O"Reilly and decided to give it a read. (He insisted on being identified only by his middle initial.) A quick read! Col. David Hunt joins Bill to discuss President Biden's Afghanistan disaster. 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