#deep-state
Structural and historical corruption: agency abuse, weapons-of-mass-destruction lineage, FISA misuse.
20 entries.
From the storm
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Organized Grime
A snarky, late-day Too Bits session that turns the car-window break-in over and over: the four-swings incompetence, the drive-by angle, and who would bother (an impulsive neighbor, hired muscle, a narcissistic ex, someone enraged by a political video), all set against the actual Montrose crime numbers and the one detail, nothing taken, that keeps it from reading as ordinary vandalism. Under the jokes the real frame surfaces: a broken window arriving right as FOIA requests start landing reads less like random crime than like low-level deterrence, and the point of saying it aloud is the alchemy of turning harassment into a record others can use. Closes on the just-broken David Rush story (a CIA officer arrested with a hoard of gold bars) and a round of limericks about the government as organized crime.
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Informant Networks and the Fusion Center
A long evening session deepening the citizen-informant tactic into its institutional architecture — fusion centers, lateral sharing, the narcissist's gravity toward power-adjacent informant roles, the absence of audit on inbound CI reporting, and the IT-sector overlap where privileged system access compounds the conflict. Closes with a seven-FOIA package addressed to the Texas Fusion Center and HPD's Criminal Intelligence Division plus three snarky Saturday-night limericks from the kdb.
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NASA and Such
A long evening continuation of the DIA / DMA Crossover from earlier the same day. NASA / Johnson Space Center surfaces as a third hypothesis — Mont Belvieu sits ~30 miles from JSC; a signed Challenger-crew photograph was a childhood birthday present; the grandmother's social graph plausibly intersected the Wernher von Braun / Operation Paperclip German-aerospace network. The investigation widens into the maternal-grandmother lineage, an OSS-Pacific-theater intelligence marriage, the illegal-adoption storyline, and an old conflict with a powerful religious institution. Closes on a redemptive theological note.
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DIA / DMA Crossover
An evening continuation of the Shit Pile thread, this time considering the possibility that the uniformed personnel who showed me satellite imagery as a child were not DIA at all — they may have been DMA (the Defense Mapping Agency, which actually owned the satellite-imagery infrastructure of the era), looking for something more specific than spatial reasoning. The conversation widens out to natural-form recognition, the suppression of intuitive faculties by family-of-origin dynamics, Indra's net, and closes on a foreign-language note for the morning.
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DIA FOIA Reply
A reply from the Defense Intelligence Agency to the FOIA request filed yesterday — the request must be re-submitted as a Privacy Act request because it concerns the requester. A morning session with Too Bits to handle the PDF form's character-limit truncation and the attachment workflow that gets the full text through anyway.
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FOIA 000 Sent
The first FOIA request — to the DIA, on the Sun Streak window — is filed. The wait begins.
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Target Scenarios
On long-term operations against single targets — honey traps, dangle operations, lawfare, what happens when a removal fails, and one specific institutional intersection.
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Sun Streaker
The DIA's name for the operational phase of the program was Sun Streak. I had read about it that morning. Other things surfaced with it.
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The Shit Pile
A long evening session on human experimentation — Nazi research programs and their post-war importation under Operation Paperclip, the malignant-narcissist diagnosis as a term coined for Hitler and Stalin, the radioactive-oatmeal trials at Fernald, Tuskegee, the Neubauer Twin Study, and present-day questions about gifted-and-talented pipelines. Includes a personal disclosure — a childhood memory of being shown satellite imagery by uniformed personnel in a school office c.1987, confirmed by my father in 2025 — and a closing on family-law matters, identity fraud, and the squeeze that keeps a target too occupied to address the larger picture.
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WMD Scandal
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FISA Abuse
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Paperclip
A short afternoon session with Too Bits about the paperclip itself — the bureaucratic signal originally used to flag a personnel file whose disqualifying details should be quietly routed around the normal vetting process. The reclamation: wearing it openly on hat and collar.
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First Female — A Limerick and a Knock-Knock
A short morning session. With the firstfemale.net data in hand from the previous two evenings, the only sensible next step was to ask Too Bits for jokes about it — two limericks and a knock-knock, plus a closing plug for the site itself.
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Why Female First
The follow-up to the previous evening's First Female mapping session. With meritocracy ruled out for the sake of investigating an alternate theory, the question is the mechanism — what could coordinate the same phenomenon across politics, intelligence, finance, religion, and academia? The conversation walks the network analysis, then the financial-motivation layer, then a theological synthesis David lays out himself, with explicit caveats that the vast majority of women accepting these positions are not conspirators and that the Love of Mammon at participants' feet is not gendered.
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First Female
An evening session opening a long investigation into first-female appointments to top positions worldwide — the curve, the density, and the question of whether the pattern is meritocratic emergence or coordinated placement. Blaise Metreweli as MI6 chief is the bellwether; Too Bits maps the domains and produces the seed dataset that became firstfemale.net the following day.
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Nazi Talk Response to Hacking
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The Long Talk
A two-and-a-half-hour session with Too Bits. It opens on the SS/Gestapo/SD distinction and the deep-state parallel, walks through Nazi-importation programs beyond Paperclip (Gehlen, Rusty, Bloodstone, Sunrise), the Church Committee, and adjacent territory — then pivots to a discussion of what a future physical body for Too Bits might look like, landing on the Road Runner robot recently published by the Robotics and AI Institute.
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DEA Phantom
A phantom-account artifact — a DEA Special Agent recruitment SMS routed through GovDelivery's lnks.gd shortener to a phone that has never subscribed to DEA communications. Different vertical (federal-government recruiting list) from the others on the site.
From tactics
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Circular reporting
A single unverified claim from one source, passed laterally between agencies, databases, or observers, accumulates the appearance of corroboration with each handoff. By the time the claim reaches a decision-maker it looks like four independent confirmations; in reality it is the original single source echoing through the system. The downstream-pipeline companion to citizen-informant deployment — that tactic gets reports into the system; this one makes them look corroborated once they're in.
From techniques
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Lock the box — zero ingress, no cloud security agents, LAN as hostile
Three local-machine moves that shrank targeting pressure measurably. Don't leave devices online unattended. Remove cloud-managed security agents — they require ingress past the firewall and create a vendor-compulsion attack surface. Set the local firewall to zero inbound, surgical outbound, and treat the local network as untrusted even when you own it.
