Deeper Dive

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Brett "cut his teeth" in Washington at the Clinton-Gore DC headquarters, serving in the Foreign Affairs Office, responding in real time to media inquiries, his desk directly under James Carville's legendary sign reading "It's the economy, stupid!"

Brett also served with the "Rapid Response Team" tasked with returning incoming fire within 24 hours (the news cycle back then)

Brett receives his Master's Degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown...
 

Two days later, his first op-ed is published in a major newspaper across town

9/9/99 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal

Brett describes this as his "break out moment" as an adjunct fellow

Worth a Quick Read, keeping in mind:

1. By the end of the year, parliamentary elections would indeed tip the balance of power in Russia; culminating in Putin suddenly seizing control of government; and
2. Two years later (almost to the day) Osama bin Laden would indeed attack Lower Manhattan

The Late Sen. Ted Kennedy introduces Brett's work to Congress
 

This is where Brett emerges as a key player in a major nuclear arms control agreement

A gift to Brett commemorating a milestone in his pet project

The Naval War College Years

TOP: Brett's folding name ID place setting from the conference table in Newport 

MIDDLE: the official professor bar designed to be pinned on his military uniform, had he been an officer in uniform 

BOTTOM: the ID badge, with bar code on the back, which gave him all-access on campus 

The Ventura headquarters for Brett's indie think tank "The California Center for Strategic Studies"

This is where Brett enjoyed the professional freedom necessary to take on the Big Boys... such as leaking the highly-controversial demo video for the "heat ray"

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"Sergei" is just one of Brett's many undercover identities between 2008 and 2016

From the Gift Shop at CIA Headquarters
 

Brett's mother collected Teddy Bears, competing with her fellow collectors for those "rare bears" no one else had.
 

When Brett spotted this one in the gift shop, he knew none of her friends would have this one (only someone who worked there would have access to it).
 

The envy of her friends, she gave it the very appropriate Teddy Bear sounding name "Langley"