About Tom
What you should know about me.
I am sick and tired of the division. This isn’t the country I grew up in.
We are not Republicans and Democrats. We are not red, blue, black, brown or white Americans. We are Americans! Anyone, who tells you otherwise is the enemy. They are the dividers. They are the problem.
Political parties distract government, breed division, incite jealousy, and lead to despotism and foreign manipulation. Parties undermine national unity and liberty. We must prioritize national interest over partisan loyalty.
Background
Everything you need to know about my values, my childhood, my mistakes and my scars you can find in my autobiography, Faith, Family and Fortitude: Seeing Opportunities Instead of Obstacles (published in advance on my 2020 Senate campaign).
I swore an oath to defend all Americans. I joined the Army Reserves in 1987 and have served every day since then, either in the Reserves or on Active Duty. I come from a military family. My grandparents served in World War II and the Korean War, my father served stateside during Vietnam, my fathers-in-laws all served in Vietnam. My brother served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. And now my children serve.
Since 1987, I have served on Active Duty or in the Army Reserves at tactical, operational, strategic and national level and continue to serve today in the Army Reserves as a Chief Warrant Officer. I served in Afghanistan alongside U.S. Special Forces. I am well-known as a bulldog when it comes to fighting injustice, training and taking care of my Soldiers and never ever quitting. Ever.
Since 2005, I have served in the military or the intelligence community as a subject matter expert on intelligence, counterterrorism and international conflict issues. I am intimately familiar with the mosaic of threats we face across around the world (Iran, Russia, China, and domestic threats). I have worked across the intelligence community doing everything from writing our nation’s war plans to the development of technology to better enable our special operations and intelligence community close with and destroy our nation’s adversaries. I recently served as the Senior Advisor on Counterintelligence and Security issues for the Director of National Intelligence.
In 2020, I personally warned the FBI that we should be exploring possible “black swan” events (unanticipated events). My warnings were ignored, and we had January 6. I was an eye witness to J6 and I was a voluntary witness to the J6 Committee as the former Senior Intelligence Collection Strategist on Domestic Terrorism.
After J6, I published a White Paper (Inside the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy) on what were the causes of J6. Why did so many people come all the way to the U.S. Capitol that day – 1) a demonstrated lack of true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution by members of the U.S. government, 2) the mental health crisis in the U.S. falsely portrayed as “gun violence,” used to threated the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution and 3) a continuing lack of government transparency leading to conspiracy theories. All these things lead to one inevitable conclusion – lack of faith in our government.
The most important thing you should know about me is that I am unafraid of speaking truth to power especially when it comes to protecting our country.
Defamed by Abigail Spanberger and the Democrat Party of Virginia
In November 2022, just a few days before the 2022 Congressional primary, the Abigail Spanberger campaign published a defamatory press release claiming I was a “notable insurrectionist who attacked the U.S. Capitol” and claimed I was guilty of “bloodying and beating law enforcement officers.” These claims were ridiculous of course. This press release was published via the Democrat Party of Virginia website and distributed to hundreds of media outlets.
I immediately, issued a cease and desist which the DPV ignored. I followed up the desist order with a lawsuit. Initially, I did not know the Spanberger campaign was involved because their involvement was concealed in the publication by the DPV, this was not known until discovery wherein it was determined that the press release was written, approved and submitted for publication by the DPV deliberately to conceal what Abigail’s press secretary called “negative trending.” (the politically correct word for smear) The article was intended to smear Yesli Vega by defaming me because both Vets for Trump and Chasing Freedom Virginia had endorsed Yesli Vega’s congressional campaign.
The press secretary of the DPV at the time, the press secretary for Abigail, as well as her Abigails campaign and congressional staff have all been deposed. All those deposed have admitted that at the time of publication they did not even know who I was when they published the press release demonstrating that they showed reckless for the truth since they clearly had access to my website, my Twitter and FaceBook accounts, as well as open press and public records which proved I had not attacked the U.S. Capitol or had any altercations whatsoever with law enforcement on January 6, 2021. In fact, I was never even accused of these things except by the DPV and the Abigail Spanberger campaign. It was a lie and they knew it was a lie and they did it to win the 2022 Congressional race.
Spanberger herself has been deposed about her involvement in the approval of the defamatory press release. However, recently she retained the additional legal counsel of Don Scott, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, and has been allowed to use to keep her deposition from becoming public prior to the Virginia Gubernatorial race this last year. Her deposition will become public soon, and we will know the truth of her involvement.