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Tracy Walder
@tracy_walder
Author of The Unexpected Spy Former CIA SOO & FBI Special Agent, Educator, National Security Contributor @newsnation opinions my own
Texas, USA
Joined May 2017
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    As a former FBI agent, this is a big deal. We didn’t execute search warrants of this magnitude/scale unless we had a mountain of cause to back it up
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    May their memories be a blessing. Rest easy sweet girls.
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    I am a teacher, a former FBI agent, and former CIA officer. NO I do not want to be armed and yes I have had a significant amount of training in firearms and feel comfortable around them. Using a firearm is not in the teaching job description, nor should I be. Period.
    I've received about a dozen emails from teachers, all saying the idea of arming them for classroom defense is delusional. Obviously this is a self-selected group, but has anyone asked whether, nationally, teachers want to be armed, or do they only want to teach?
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    🧵 just finished the uvalde report. Here are the most important 3 screenshots to me
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    🧵 An explainer on the classification of docs trump had per the affidavit
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    3) Lt. Martinez is the only officer who used the ALERRT training he received. Running TOWARDS the shooter. “No other officer followed him”
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    Those advocating for single entry and egress point at schools have clearly never heard of the fatal funnel, a tornado threat, a fire in a school building, etc. #Enough #teachers
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    2) uvalde officers had undergone ALERRT training. They knew what to do if keys were not available and what to do did not include hanging out in the hallway for 70+min
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    1) Arredondo is a liar. He indeed did know that he was in charge based on the training he had through ALERRT training
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    As someone who sat inside the CIA’s counterterrorism center on 9/11 I’d like to say, what in the actual…….
    Breaking: Republicans have unanimously voted to promote Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Homeland Security Committee. Greene previously suggested 9/11 was faked. cnn.com/2023/01/17/pol…
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    Hey Tennessee, 17 year teacher here, former CIA officer and FBI special agent. Teachers should not carry concealed weapons in schools. Period. Here are my thoughts as to why.
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    ALERRT training is Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training and provides many police departments with active shooter training across the US. Uvalde PD had undergone their training
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    In 2017 I wrote that Trump would use the national security apparatus for his own personal and political gain. Case in point, item 1a on the FBI’s list of seized docs “info re: President of France.”