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Inside the IDF Hostage Rescue w/ Jack Murphy | EYES ON Ep. 27

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Today we are joined by Jack Murphy and we run down a handful of news stories, first we talk about the IDF hostage rescue, then the 8 suspected terrorist arrested across the US, Russian sabotage in Europe and what Jack and Sean Naylor are working on in The HIGHSIDE.

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Hey guys, it's Jack. I just wanted to talk to you today about a way that you can help support the podcast if you're not already to support the channel is to become a Patreon member. So we have Patreon memberships that started just five dollars a month, and when you sign up, you get access to all of our episodes add free. That's the big bonus for that.

I mean, we also do some Patreon bonus episodes for our subscribers, but this is the biggest and best way that you can support the Teamhouse channel and podcast if you'd like to, and we really appreciate that, So go and check us out at patreon dot com slash the Teamhouse. Hello, everybody, welcome to another episode of eyes On. I'm your host. I'm not the host, but my name is Dimitri. We got Jason the accent. Hello everyone, Welcome to another episode of eyes On. I'm your host,

Andy Milbourn Milbourn, I'm Jason Lyons, and I'm Jack Murphy. Jack Murphy, the esteem journalist, host of the Teamhouse podcast, our dear leader, renowned, infamous. Choose Choose one, Choose one and stick with it all right, Jack's not really a subject matter expert on anything really, but we have him here that we're going to run down a bunch of like stories going on right now. First and foremost, the big news from the weekend was the idea of hostage rescue and Gaza. You know, that was a big

one. Supposedly over two hundred terrorists if you're listening to the IDEF were killed during this and four hostages were rescue, right, yeah, yeah, Jack, What do you got on that? Tell me everything? You know? I mean, what I'll say this much is you know, I spoke to a source this week and he confirmed that this was a Israeli unilateral operation. There was really no American military or intelligence support for it at all, So

they did this one on their own targeted counter terrorism hostage rescue mission. I went in and pulled out four hostages from Gaza, and you know, there are some differing perspectives of course, as as everything in this conflict. And you know, the the Gaza health ministry said, yeah, I think they did. I think they It is confirmed they did a bunch of air strikes

to support their withdraw out. And now it's going to be contentious of like how many people died in those air strikes, and I think the Israeli government has even said there have been some collateral damage, is it like two hundred and seventy four civilians the way the Gaza Health Ministry says, I don't, I don't know. I'd maybe take with a little bit of grain of salt

on that. And then the other interesting thing is the Palestinians are saying that they that the Israelis used some deception tactics to come in using an AID vehicle,

ostensibly to infiltrate closer to the target area. There were other reports, I think it might have been even in an Israeli newspaper reported that some of the operators posed as Palestinian refugees, like they were internally displaced people, you know, posing as them moving from one place, one town to the next as a way to get closer to the target area with while being undetected.

And I'm not sure if it's true or not. You know, the some of the people are saying that they posed as as Aid relief workers because you know, and that would be probably illegal if they did that. If you recall back in the day, like what was it, two thousand and eight when the Colombians rescued American hostages that were held by Fark the helicopter, And I mean there was a deception operation that they were you know, first they

were Red crossworkers and that turned into a bit of a controversy. So but I mean, now there's also some video footage, some helmet cam footage that the Israelis have released, and when they show the operators moving up to the target structure, I mean they're weren't, like full battle rattle, clearly identified as Israeli soldiers, So that would negate the idea that they were like in

disguise as they got closer. But it's possible that two things happened. That a reconnaissance element came in close undercover, and then the assault element rolled in behind them. I mean, there's a number of different things, and whenever you talk about military operations, the devil's always in the details. And I won't claim that I know all of them on this particular mission. So speaking of that helmet cam footage, I only saw a little piece of it.

But did they engage anyone on the target, any bad guys on the target? It didn't look like from what I saw, look like they literally rolled in, rolled into the room and grabbed them. Yeah, I mean, and that could be because the camera footage was edited, possibly by by the Israeli authorities, either censorship or they don't want to show something that's particularly gruesome.

I don't know. Yeah, just totally speculating. It's hard to believe that they didn't receive or engage enemy as they as they rescued the hostages. You can hear in the footage like a hell of a lot of incoming fire. I mean, there's a firefight breaking out all around them. Okay, cool? Cool? So and I did I read I think it was in when you were around with Ward Carroll that all four were from the same they all four of the hostages were from that music festival. I believe they were.

I believe, Okay, because the one girl I recognized from when it first happened October seventh or the eighth. The next day when they were throwing video her picture like of her being taken away, I guess. And a currently the mission commander was wounded on the objective and passed away when to the hospital. So yeah, they lost apparently they lost one officer during the during

the raid. Gotcha, It's crazy. I can imagine I was trying to think of it from an intel point of view, how they prepped that target. You know, if I was an intel officer, I'd be you know, on the toop, I'd definitely be talking to assets who were in live in the area, or you know, are familiar with that area. You know, what do they know about where they're being held? Is it are they actually there? How many bad guys are there? That sort of thing.

So that must have been a I'm curious to know, and I don't know that we ever will how long the preparation for this took or was it? Hey, this is the intel we have where they are, go get them? Yeah, I mean the operation. I hate to use the word complex city it's overused. These operations are difficult and complex, right, and any kind of hostage rescue usually is so. From what we do know, I mean, it's clear that a fair amount of planning went into this thing.

And as you point out, any hostage rescue operation requires a high level of intelligence to be successful, to do a surgical raid. Gotcha. Now, is there any indication of like TFO or RC or NSA like helping in terms of like intel not on this one. Okay, Now, the fact that it was done during the daylight, you think that indicates it's one of those hey in extremists, we go now, because normally this would be done at night, right, Yeah, especially when you're bringing in birds for the

ex filtration, you'd want to do that under the cover of darkness. So I don't know why the decision was made to do it during daylight as opposed to at night. And they but obviously they felt that they had a high confidence of success. Maybe, yeah, you point out it. I mean it could be like part of you know, what you'd sometimes call an emergency assault plan, like the hostages are about to be killed or executed or something, so you go in and do the assault because it's least, you know,

it's worst case scenario. But no, I don't really know what led into the decision to do this during hours of daylight. And sorry to keep peppering you with this stuff, but I'll keep it up keep with the exception of the loss of the commander or rest in peace. Do you know of any huge hiccups that happened. I think you said something about a vehicle. Yeah, there was again a report that one of the Xville vehicles got stuck on the way out. You know that they had either got stuck in a

pothole or mechanical problems. I don't know what the what the issue was, so they had that on the way out. Gotcha, gotcha? Gotcha. I would ask see if he's got anything, but he fell asleep. No, sorry, I'm looking at another story. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, so that's four, you know who have been recovered. They looked relatively healthy in the video that I saw as for you know, healthy

for what they'd been through. So yeah, or yeah, I'm hoping that you know, they can get the rest or at least get some word on the rest. So I would think after this that Hamas would probably shuffle these folks around from wherever they were to other spots, you know, to try to prevent this happening again. Yeah, I mean, And the interesting thing is when they do that, it opens up more opportunities potentially to detect the

hostages being moved. And sometimes that's a part of the plan too, Like your hope, you're doing something, hoping that the bad guys are going to get on cell phones and start blabbing their mouths about what's going on and say hey, Akmed, We're going to move the hostages over to you know this street now, and you know that, and that opens up other doors,

other opportunities for you to get people back. Absolutely. Yeah. I was actually one of my first thoughts when I saw it was like an apartment building or something, was wouldn't it be better for the bad guys keep them underground? If there's such a you know, a huge network underground, then why keep them there unless they were in the process of moving them from one spot

to another and just stuck them there. Yeah, And I mean there's a couple of different things, and it's all speculation, of course, but it could be that someone has to take care of the hostages and there's like a there's like a sort of ratio that you need like two people to take care of ten hostages or four people, because you have to have people guarding them

at all times and bringing them food and stuff like that. And you know, so if you're keeping the hostages down in tunnels, then you have to have you know, either hamas members or auxiliaries that are caretakers of the hostages and keeping them alive. And I mean, yeah, are are those people gonna live in tunnels or are they gonna live in houses? Right, So it's like a question of like where are you gonna have and then also as you know, the difficulty in moving the hostages around, and then maybe it

has something to do with some of the tunnels being destroyed as well. Yeah, what's ballpark? Like? How many hostages are left? Over one hundred? Over a hundred? Yeah, like confirmed alive or we don't know, like mostly not confirmed publicly. Yeah, all right, h next story, I wanted to talk about wash the top hasible, a commander and three operatives

killed in South and Southern Lebanon yesterday by an Israeli strike. Talib Abdullah is the most senior member of the Lebanese terror group to be killed in eight months of deadly border fighting with Israel, and in return, eighty rockets were fired at the North on Tuesday. What do we got cooking with that? Jack

thoughts, Well, I mean not really. I mean it's the continuation of this conflict and you know it's I think Milbourne laid out maybe the last time we talked about how there's this sort of like tit for tat, like you do something, We're going to do something, and it's all sort of like part of it is a little bit of a stage play. I don't I hate to say that because people get killed, but it's like the Israelis do

something they know to keep their credibility. Hamas has to lob some rockets back at them, and so it's this sort of like almost arrangement, the facto arrangement dot that exists, but you're having you are you know. The problem is there's this increased drum beats towards war in Lebanon with Hezbollah, and that opens up essentially a new military front in this conflict and and escalates the chances of this conflict expanding into something much larger. Yeah, I don't know if

not necessarily can afford it, but wants that right now. They got enough shit going on. I mean they're I think they're overwhelmed by what's going on in Guys. I can't see like how they're going to fight a two front conflict. Absolutely, what else we got d you were talking about Poland before, Yeah, we'll get to that one last. I mean this one that happened yesterday also was uh, this is more domestic. I guess eight suspected

terrorists with possible Isis ties arrested in New York, LA and Philly. The men from Tajikistan came came through the US southern border and their criminal background checks came back clean at the time they crossed, but they ended up getting swept up here in America, which is kind of scary. So they came across the border legally, yeah, yeah, one actually even used that like one border app or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, for asylum and yeah,

everybody they all checked out clean. So it's scary, Like you were just saying, I mean, nobody can argue, Hey, we knew they were criminals. You know, why do we let them in. They did it technically the way they were supposed to do it, and they made it in And this didn't I know that. The article I think came out yesterday, but this is like months. As soon as they got into the country, they were under observation, they were being surveilled and checks were done on

them. So then it was a multi state operation was put together to round these guys up. I think it was one guy who actually wasn't one of the original group, someone that they hooked up with had been on their FBI's radar as well. So when the two met the the that group and then this one guy that was what the catalyst was, It's like, okay, round him up. Wow, is there anything? Has anything come out about like what the plot was or how far along it was. I haven't seen

anything. I'm gonna keep reaching out to my context about it, but I haven't seen anything about what the plot was. I'm very interested because you know that they came across the border, you know, and and there is obviously border security issues that we need to figure out and resolve. But we really haven't seen terrorists infiltrating by coming across the southern border. There's always been fears of it, you know, sometimes paranoia, but I don't think we've seen

an actual terror plot come across the southern border until now. Yeah. Yeah, Well, despite what people are screaming, you know that every one coming across as a terrorists now and there whoever sent them, because I'm sure it wasn't just random h was smart enough to send one who don't. They have a clean record, you know, so they get in the way that you quote unquote should get in, and once they're here then they can collect and

you know, pop off whatever they're planning. But thank god, I mean, I hate to say it, but the fact that the key factors where they were coming from, their countries of origin, played a big role in them being profiled, for lack of a better term, and in this case it paid off. Not saying that everyone that comes from Syria, you know, Iraq or and whatever is is has nefarious intentions, but that I'm sure has had a big part in playing our big part in the fact that they

were being surveiled afterwards at once they made it into the country. Yeah, so these guys, these guys are from Tajikistan to jikits In. Yeah, even then, I mean, yeah, that's just probably enough to say, Okay, let's keep an eye on these guys, you know, and sometimes they're already here, you know. And this is not a terror plot thing.

But Jack, you remember, I want to say, it was back in two thousand and ten or so, we had that big spate of Afghan students that were down at Fort I think it was Fort Bragg or Deadning and they just kept just walk off the base and disappear. I mean, some of those still haven't been rounded up, so who knows. I'm sure they turn up at a strip club at Fort Larderdale or something like that. And I'm sure most in most cases it's not a terror plot. It's just a

case of I don't want to go back. But there was that one case you remember a few years back to Saudi. It was a yeah, student on a military base who was down in Pensacola. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so you just you never know, never know, yeah, and then uh you may have. I don't know if you talked about this on Teamhouse, the shooting down at Fort Bragg, the Russian, Russian,

Russian, I think right, catch it? Yeah, the contractor for that energy company, the telecom company, Telecom, Yeah, some crazy Yeah. I know. I don't know everything about what happened there or by any means, I know a few things or some interesting details. I'm interested to see how all that pans out, if that guy really had some sort of nefarious intentions or was he just a Telecom employee, Because the the employer put out like a press release like you know, we stand behind our boy. He's

going to be exonerated in court. All this like that's not something an intelligence platform does, right, Like they would just pull a fade and disappear out of America. Yeah, like you don't. You're you're not going to court and batting for your your dead asset. It doesn't work like that. Absolutely. Yeah. And then when I saw when I first was reading the article and I saw the company was out in New Jersey, I was like, God, damn it Jersey again. Yeah, we did it again. Yeah,

but that's some crazy. I mean, it happened at night, right if I remember, or in the evening does it was still light out, but it was like almost it was the sun was setting, gotcha. Yeah, I mean it's tough. You see somebody taking pictures. Your kids are in the area. Now, this is based on what I've read. You know, kids are in the area. It's kind of hokey to you. I'm not sure where it turned violent. I heard that it turned violent or escalated before the shooting. But yeah, it's it's uh, it is.

It's weird. There's a lot of details I don't think we're getting. Yeah, there's there's some interesting stuff there as far as on the military side that I'll tell you guys after we finished doing the show. I'm not going to say it publicly, yeah, because I also I don't I'm not going to publicly identify that army officer at this time, and you know he deserves a

chance to be you know, cleared in court as well. Yeah right, yeah, you got to assume this guy was highly trained, and like this probably isn't the route if you're getting surveilled for real, it's to just no, it's not I'm not an expert, but it's not what they're trained to do either, right, yeah, they're not trained. Like if you're under surveillance, you're not supposed to go and confront the vice team and absolutely not

right, yeah, that's not in the farm handbook. And even and this this this army officer is a farm trained case officer as oh really yes, oh man, see yeah, and we're absolutely even if you're in a vehicle, you're running an SDR and you think that you're covered, you're not doing that, Hollywood, let me hook this first, right then flip a uie, let me do that. That's at you would do that, But that is it's your last point before you make it. It's your last decision point.

You you can go into like one a neighborhood where you know there's only one way in, one way out, start flipping UI's and stuff like that. Aggressively. It's called going aggressive. But you're not doing that right off the bat, because now you've just told whoever's following you, okay, this person has something to hide, you know. So you know, I've I've

been doing some research for a separate a separate story. And you know, the FBI interestingly has a unit that specializes in this that like if you're an FBI agent or it could be requested from another governmental agency and like you're under surveillance, you have an active threat, like Iranians are parked outside in front of your house. This like FBI van with a bunch of dudes with MP five's will pull up and just like rip dudes out of their cars. They

don't like it. It's it's specifically for active threats, and from what I understand, these dudes do not fuck around at all. Yeah, yeah, I mean let them do it, you know, you bet it's in Oh my god, what's happening? You know? But let them do that shit? Crazy jack, You got anything? Tell me, Tell me what are you, what are you working on? Give us everything. So Sean Naylor, who you know, I work on this on the high side with on

this this National Security News outlet. He's working on this story about a legendary CIA officer who was a Green Beret in Vietnam has a Distinguished Service Cross that may be upgraded to a Medal of Honor potentially, So that's in the works right now. I'm working on a story about Havana syndrome and I'm pretty deep into it and I've spoken to a lot of the I'm really interested in speaking to the original people in Havanah who were hit, and I've talked to a

number of them and I'm going to talk to another one shortly. And I've been talking to a lot of the doctors, a lot of the like CIA doctors, and like these are like really interesting people. They're like practicing doctors that see patients but also have a top secret clearance and consult with the White House and with the CIA. I'mlike, you know, cbr N threats and

stuff like this. Like it's very very interesting stuff. So I'm working on that article right now, and once that's done, Yeah, there's some other interesting stuff that I think Sean and I are going to move on to. Well. I'm definitely looking forward to the Medal of Honor article. Because as you know, he was a mentor of mine, really really good guy. Check out the High Side. The link is in the description Jack and Sean Naylor, you know, the guy who actually wrote the book on Jaysack.

Yeah. Yeah, So can I ask this then about the without you giving away anything about the Havana syndrome thing. Are crickets involved, because that's what I'm reading, I'm hearing like crickets or beetles or some that was Yeah, that that was one of the things that I think Jason group trotted out there, that these guys were just hearing crickets. That was ruled out pretty early

on in this in the investigation. And obviously the inner ear damage and the damage done to the cerebellum that's detectable and has been detected in in different kinds of There's different types as I've learned of functional magnetic resonance imagery. One of them is called full body I believe f MRI I, and so there's different

types that look at the brain. But what I'm getting at is that between that and also the blood marker bio biomarker indicators that indicators of TBI, there's quite a bit of physical evidence that these people were hurt by something, and you know, obviously crickets are not going to cause inner ear damage or damage to your Sarahbellum, Yeah, yeah, I saw that and I was like, wait, well, I mean I'm no medical person or scientists, but

I'm like, damn, they gotta train crickets against this crazy Yeah. Some of the other stuff people have been freaking out about is that Russian flotilla that's like off the coast of Florida heading to Cuba. There was a lot of like Twitter chatter, like standoff between Russian and US. You know. Meanwhile, it's probably at this point, probably more than three a quarter of the Russian navy is literally going to Cube because they're so right. Yah, I

mean, look, Russia is not a credible threat. Like, they're not a credible military threat to US. I'm sorry, they posed us a significant counterintelligence threat, maybe even you know, if they decided to conduct acts of sabotage against the United States or something something along those lines. But like it's the Russian maybe going to come in bombard Tampa or something. I don't think

yeah, they're going to come in pound Key West. Yeah, oh man, Yeah, I think they're just trying to They're just flexing what little muscle they have, you know, because I think was it Putin that had said, you know, we're we're willing to arm you are enemies America's enemies, you know, against them, and people were throwing up headlines it's another Cuban

missile crisis, blah blah blah. I just don't see it. They already arm our enemies against us, and our other enemies are arming Russia against us. So it's like, what changes. Yeah, Like if you want to use have some sort of like use a threat, you have to have leverage, and like you don't have leverage when you're threatening to do something you've always been doing anywhere. Yeah, exactly doesn't make sense. Yeah, oh man, what else you got? The guys are really running me ragged today.

Uh. I mean it's more about the uh you know, polling, rounding up a bunch of like Russian agents, I would say, because a lot of them are I guess dual national, like you know, Polish and Russian citizens, so you know, just running sabotage operations. I mean, the Poles are probably super busy doing this. It's probably a big factor and like a big thing on what they're looking at. I'm sure they're using a bunch of bandwidth to try and stop it, because yeah, I mean, they

got a lot of stake, you know. And when it's internal. To me, I've always thought that that was the biggest issue. You know, it wasn't Russia, it wasn't China. It's always to me, it's internally whatever. You know, that guy that you see every day at the gate, you show your ID two, you know where it is. Loyalties lie. Not that we should be, you know, paranoid about everyone, but that to me is the biggest threat because that is what lulls us to sleep,

you know. And so you have these dual nationals who have competing loyalties, and that's when shit like this happens, sabotage or you know, like or even it's not even necessary dual nationals. It's one who get caught up in this uh YouTube TikTok snatch at whatever stuff, and they see all these propaganda videos and then they start sympathizing and next thing, you know, like

that British officer, they're handing over secrets. The The interesting thing that I haven't really seen anyone put together in the media, is that you know, there's sort of a global game, a global shadow war going on in that you saw all these acts of sabotage in Russia, mysterious fires and explosions. Who's doing that, I don't know. And now you're seeing stuff starting to happen in Eastern Europe. And you also have to factor the nord Stream.

We still don't really know what happened there. You have to factor that into it. Like each act of sabotage carries with it an implied message to the people who are being sabotaged that you're under threat. We can get to you,

and we can strike you harder in the future. And I think it's very interesting to look at how, you know, all these acts of sabotage happened right when Russia invaded Ukraine. In Russia, all these sabotage acts in Russia, they seem to have dwindled off, and one could speculate that it's because the sleeper cells are either running out of demo in their cachet site locations, or they have had they've been rolled up by Russian authorities, or they

were compromised enough that they have to clear the country and get out of there and now. But here we are a couple of years later, and all of a sudden, you're starting to see this escalation and acts of sabotage and poland why is that? And why now? And I think that you have to see its like is this retaliation for that? Yeah, like you did it to us. It took us a couple of years to build up the intelligence infrastructure in your country to conduct these acts of sabotage. Now that we've

built it up, we're going to start doing it. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah, I don't. I don't think I'm speculating a bit here, but I mean I don't think it's totally irrational to view it in that lens. Absolutely, And why wouldn't you want to divert attention and stow fear, you know in countries that are not directly involved in Ukraine or the conflict but border it, or you know, of sending equipment or something like that, because now you have the ripple effect of not only generating fear, but you

could generate sympathy against the war. You know, people are saying, you know, look, this has happened in US because you guys are giving them tanks. You know, that sort of things, though there's definitely second and third order effect. Is there a possibility of how high is that threat in terms of sabotage and arson, like for our factories like in Scranton and the one that they're building in Dallas, for the one hundred and fifty five millimeter

shells that are like obviously like gold there. It exists, And I mean, I don't know, really, Jason. I mean, maybe you can comment on the security and the counterintelligence around those facilities. But I think there's

there's a great book that I've recommended in the past. I think it's called Burn, Bomb, and Destroy, and it's about the German sabotage campaign in the United States one hundred years ago, and they were blowing up AMMO dumps, they were putting incendiary charges on ships that were bringing supplies over to Europe. I mean, it's very interesting to see how that campaign was run in

the United States back then. Yeah, I mean, yeah, So, I mean these people are vetted, the people who work there secure whatever it is they're vetted. I don't know what the exact process is, but I'm sure that they go through a pretty extensive background check, and you know, all those other things but again this is me harping on the insider threat. But you could get through Scott three free, like these guys that came across

the border. You get through Scott free, and then you're working there for two years or whatever, and you start falling on hard times financially, you're going through divorce, whatever it is. And you know, the Russians, the Chinese, whoever it is, takes note of that stuff because they are watching these people and approaches. Hey, we got the solution your problems. All we need you to do is ABC, you know. So it could

be that everybody, all one hundred people who work there are vetted. Fine, but all it takes is one bad day, one bad you know, a Hanson type thing where you know your your finances are going to shit, your marriage is going to shit, all the perfect storm. And yeah, I don't necessarily see it coming from the outside. I could see it coming from the inside if it was going to happen here. And that all of

that takes like some deliberate targeting by foreign intelligence services. Like that's not something that like these like Tajeeky's are going to throw together, right, Yeah, So I mean it's just worthwhile to point out that, you know, you would you'd have to specifically target the facility and the people who work there and spot and assess them. And it would require the Russians to infiltrate competent trained

like tradecraft trained intelligence officers into the United States. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, this is not a some guy sitting in his basement, you know, I'll show them kind of thing, especially from the outside, like not somebody let's just say in Ohio, you know some guy who's like, you know, fuck the government, I'm just gonna build this thing and toss it over

the fence kind of thing, because he's going to get shot. Where As someone who is targeted, who has knowledge and ability to get into these facilities, they're targeted, and it would be a month, sometimes year's operation to for a foreign intelligence service to target that person work them up. Because this is the United States, whether you know, for better or worse, people are pretty much loyal at the end. At the end of the day.

We're a little less averse to saying, Okay, Ivan, you know, give me two thousand dollars, I'll do this, which is going to cost my life probably. So it's probably months or years to bring that person around to even considering doing an act of sabotage. You know, it's one thing that insert a computer virus than it is to plan a bomb. So it's I mean, on that note, I mean it's it's actually pretty interesting the

security we have around our nuclear infrastructure in this country. I probably shouldn't go into too much detail, but I know of one facility in particular that like they even wargamed, like what if the IRGC parachuted a battalion of Iranians in here, could we defend against it? And like it does that facility does have to be able to defend against it. So there's some pretty interesting stuff

that goes on there. And we do have special ops guys who read team those facilities to see, you know, is it possible to sneak in there? Is it possible to assault the facility? All that kind of contingencies are wargamed. Yeah, I was in a nuclear security before I went to the

agency, and you're absolutely right there. I don't know if they don't call them CAF teams, but they are SF some former, some current who and they take some of the security team from each facility and train them as well, just so you have that insider thing and they run war games all the time live and tabletop yep. Yeah, scary shit. You got to assume nowadays too, like the cyber threats, just as or even more you know of a threat than the physical threat of it. Absolutely, you know,

hopefully are pouring money into that. Yeah yeah, I definitely can't speak to that. I barely turned this computer on, but yeah, yeah, but again, people are you know, we get so hyped up on even when it comes to cyber threats. Hey, shutting down a centrifuges or something like that. That could be something as simple as inviting a program into the system that shuts down production of a small part for f thirty fives or something like

that. You know, it doesn't have to be huge. Yeah. Yeah, Poisoning the supply chain is like a huge thing, and it's something that our intelligence community looks at doing to the enemy as well to allies. Absolutely. Yeah, that was great act. Where can they find you? Uh? You can find my screeds across the internet. I'm on Twitter at Jack

Murphy RGR. Find me in Sean's work as well. On the high Side, which is a sub stack you can go check out and then of course, soon find me and d on the team House every Friday on the youtubees or wherever you go for podcasts. Jason, where can they find you? Right here? Hat now, I'm I'm on Instagram. It's just my personal account. Yeah, I'm boring, so everything, all the links will be in the description. Definitely check out The high Side with Jack and Sean.

They do work that you're not going to find the New York Times doing or the Wallstreet Journal doing. Really uh if you go check it out now, I mean there's a ton of long form articles on there. We got stuff about Jaysocks spinning up for Gaza. We got stuff about the CIA Omega teams in Afghanistan, the Special Forces green Light teams that parachuted in with backpack nukes. All kinds of cool stuff on there, and that's parlayed into a book

about Special Forces history. Event. Yeah, I'm working on a on a pook. Yeah, sure it should be great. Of course, Patreon dot com slash the Teamhouse. That's the best way to support this show because YouTube continues to screw us, uh and screw up multiple a ton of other creators too. It's gonna Yeah, it's been a big change and it's kind of wild. If you're listening to us on audio, don't forget to rate and review it. Do what you can to support Patreon, dot com, slash

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