Former Police Officer. Retired FBI Agent & SWAT team. Former corporate security executive. Now a full-time author and licensed PI. FXRegan.com

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Book Review: 'Choke Point' May Be @BradThor's Most Terrifyingly Plausible Thriller Yet Read my full, spoiler-free review here: therealbookspy.substack.com/…
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DOUBLE TAP (Mitch Rapp #25) by @bentleydonb (pub. by @AtriaBooks 9/22/26) Preorder the book: amazon.com/Double-Tap-Mitch-… Read @Kashif1307’s review: bestthrillerbooks.com/kashif…
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We want to keep you updated on the reviews we post each week (Now). If you already have a big TBR list, don’t worry, we’ll remind you of the upcoming books as they’re about to be published (Later). This week we have reviews of 2 books. Read them now: bestthrillerbooks.com/review…
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Section 702 of FISA was not renewed yesterday and there is so much disinformation, including in places like the WSJ and NYP. Briefly; 702 was not ended, it was just not re-authorized. It still runs, as is, for another year which gives Congress 363 more days to re-authorize it. They never do anything until the last minute. 702 is not FISA, it's a sub-section of FISA. Most of FISA remains as it's been for 40 years. Neither FISA, nor 702 is required to collect communications overseas. That's been going on since there were communications, and spies. It's not required if an overseas entity passively calls a U.S. person. FISA and 702 involve targeting. A FISA search warrant is required to pro-actively capture the communications of a U.S. Person domestically. It has nothing to do with 702, (except some of auditing and other administrative-triva.) The most controversial part of 702 is the 702 database: 1. Currently ALL the metadata from overseas communications to the U.S. , no matter how innocuous, is captured in the database. 2.. The "Three Hop" rules allows for metadata three communications away from that U.S.-based communication to be captured in the database. 3. There is no judicial requirements, only "rules" about searching that data base. Before they got caught, the FBI was searching the database of U.S. Persons millions of times a year including by lawyers and analysts. How to fix 702: 1. Only FBI special agents, not lawyers or analysts, can search the 702 database with a subpoena (low standard of evidence,) from a federal magistrate or judge. Emergency exceptions w/authority from the FBI Director and Deputy Director. 2. Eliminate the Three-Hop rule. If there is reasonable suspicion (low standard as well,) a U.S. Person contacted from overseas is in contact with follow-on subjects, require an additional subpoena to capture that metadata. In-depth article I wrote going on three years ago when this came up last time. fxregan.substack.com/p/702-r…

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My thoughts on the Apache that was shot down by Iran: I cannot begin to explain how lucky that Apache crew was that was shot down. Yes, UXOs happen, but that is just part of the luck (especially since it was on fire!). Apaches have a tandem cockpit, which means the pilots sit one in front of the other, like a fighter jet, rather than side by side like most helicopters. The fact that the drone hit between the two pilots without actually hitting one of the pilots is just wild…there isn’t that much room for that not to happen. Then, having to ditch in the Strait of Hormuz after a drone crashes into you and your helicopter is on fire with flames likely filling your line of sight. Sounds like they likely did power-on ditching procedures, but once they jettison the canopy and hit the water things happen fast. Helicopters roll when they hit the water and start to fill up with water. It’s very disorienting and the water is dark. You also still have to worry about the rotor blades. When train for this. We refer to it as “dunker training.” But in the span of most standard Army pilots careers, they usually only complete the initial training, not the annual follow on training that is preferred. The pilots were able to get out and find each other and wait in the water for two hours while a drone boat came and rescued them…. Technology that those pilots likely didn’t even know existed until it picked them up. A lot of things that could have and likely should have gone wrong, didn’t. Things very easily could have ended much differently. Very grateful those pilots are ok. 🇺🇸🙏
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Georgia Police Officer Dustin Krish, who gave his life in the line of duty, is the 46th officer lost in 2026. RIP. Police Officer Dustin Krish, 33, succumbed to injuries he received when he was struck by the driver of a car while directing traffic on June 11, 2025. Officer Krish was directing traffic on Highway 27 in Carrollton due to construction lane closures. A car traveling southbound passed through the light, struck Officer Krish, and then crashed into another vehicle. Officer Krish was thrown several feet into the air. He was airlifted to Marietta’s Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center, where he underwent multiple surgeries for severe brain injuries. On June 2, 2026, his condition deteriorated, and he passed away on June 9, 2026. Officer Krish had served with the Carrollton Police Department for over three years. Survivors include his wife and brother, who also serves with the agency. 🖤🙏💙🙏🖤
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I'm going to have to break with NRO on this because I fundamentally disagree with this sentence from the editorial: "...Trump’s unworthy and abusive campaign to investigate and prosecute his political opponents." Trump didn't make these individuals his "political opponents" -- that reverses the causation. The fact that individuals launch misguided and/or illegitimate efforts at a sitting President, or at an individual out of office with an intent to run for office again, does NOT then become provide them with a cloak of immunity from their own potential criminal behavior. To dismiss all the investigations as "retribution" - and declare them illegitimate based on that label -- is de facto immunity they purchased for themselves by going first. The cautionary tale in this is as follows: Do not employ the criminal justice system as a political tool to stymie the implementation of policies you disagree with after losing an election. Political motives should not provide protection from an investigation as to whether your own conduct was, in fact, legal.
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It's a rehash of arguments I hear on "The Editors" podcast from those that are President Trump skeptical every week. But NRO doesn't do itself justice here. Read the full editorial here: nationalreview.com/2026/06/n…
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🇺🇸 Just a guy who flew 39 combat missions talking to a guy who was machine gunning on D-Day. Greatest Generation. Built Different. 🫡🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Most Badass Ballplayers: Combat Veteran Edition #2 Ted Williams Ted Williams, widely regarded as the greatest pure hitter who ever lived, was one badass ballplayer. Born August 30, 1918, in San Diego, California. He made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox in 1939 and quickly became one of the most feared hitters in baseball. In 1941, at just 22 years old, he hit .406, the last time any player has hit over .400 in a season. He followed that up by winning another batting title in 1942. By the end of the 1942 season, Williams was already a superstar and widely considered the best hitter in the game. Then, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Williams enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and trained as a pilot. He missed the 1943, 1944, and 1945 seasons, three full prime years of his career, while serving stateside during World War II. When he returned in 1946, there were questions about whether he could pick up where he left off. He answered them immediately, winning the American League MVP award in his first season back. Over the next several years he continued to dominate, winning the Triple Crown in 1947 and another batting title in 1948. When the Korean War broke out, Williams was recalled to active duty as a Marine Corps pilot. In 1952 and 1953 he flew 39 combat missions over North Korea in the F9F Panther jet. He often flew as wingman for future astronaut John Glenn. On one mission his plane was hit by the enemy and caught fire. He made a successful belly landing and jumped out and ran off the wingtip to safety. He was hit by enemy fire at least three times during his tour. After Korea, Williams returned to baseball in 1953 and continued one of the most remarkable careers in baseball history. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Ted Williams, superstar athlete, answered the call for his country twice. Thank you, Ted! 🫡🇺🇸⚾
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We have 14 reviews of 11 books that will be published in June. Please follow the authors and buy their books! It’s going to be a Thrilling month! Read the reviews: bestthrillerbooks.com/monthl…. MURDER BY DESIGN by @LeeGoldberg (6/1/26) THE GIRL IN THE LAKE by Lauren Oliver (6/1/26) TELL YOUR FRIENDS by Lauren Wilson (6/2/26) THE KILL FIX by @dgelliott00 (6/2/26) BREAKOUT by Dhonielle Clayton, @WriteinBK, Nic Stone, @angiecthomas, @AshWrites and @NicolaYoon (6/2/26) THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN by @JackMurphyRGR (6/9/26) LOST IN BOOMVILLE by @MonKane (6/12/26) CHOKE POINT by @BradThor (6/16/26) THREE HITMEN AND A BABY by Rob Hart (6/16/26) EXIT WOUND by @isabellambooks (6/23/26) STORM TIDE by @pauldoiron (6/30/26)
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Hey @TXStrong11 and @TrustIsEarnd - I'd like to respond to some of @SteveBakerUSA rant, but unfortunately he blocked me, because he wants to make it harder for people to see alternate opinions, so here goes. (And he'll see this, he see's all my posts even though he blocked me, and often responds.) First, IsThisReal Life, of course the DOJ would not cause themselves pain by arresting the wrong person in Brian Coal. They were literally 32 days away from the Statute of Limitations expiring when Coal was arrested, which would have made this whole thing disappear. No more questions asked. "It was unsolvable, these things happen," they could have said. Think about it logically, if the J5 pipe bomb was part of a "fedsurrection" you hoped to keep hidden, the best way to do that on December 4, 2025 was do nothing, not arrest some mope you know didn't do it. They didn't do that, they arrested the right guy. The changed alibi? Baker is obsessed with the puppies vs. dog scenario. It's nonsense. Notice how he doesn't try and discredit Dan Dickert as a witness, Ms. Kerkhoff's roommate who was there at the time? He's the alibi - nobody has accused Mr. Dickert of being part of the conspiracy or accused him of lying to the FBI. You know who wouldn't be in jail right now if he had an alibi witness as good as Mr. Dickert? Mr. Cole. Failed polygraph? Says who? Cole's lawyer said the polygraph examiner told Ms. Kerkhoff she failed. That's not the same as actually failing. It's a standard tactic (ask me how I know) for examiners to tell examinees they failed. Let's wait and see if we actually see the report, which will never see the inside of a courtroom for a bunch of reasons anyway. There is a high probability Ms. Kerkhoff's name never makes it into any trial. As for the questions the FBI won't answer - why would they? There is an ongoing prosecution. They don't answer questions about evidence in the middle of a prosecution. I'm not in the FBI anymore and have taken a pretty good stab at all these questions for months. It's what got me blocked by Baker and his ace investigator @accabbat. They don't have evidence of Cole's car driving away, they have a video of a car they THINK is Cole's car. They don't see him in it, and they can't prove it's his car. And they can't account for how the various traffic and Capitol cameras are time synced anyway. The shoes? The FBI said when they were looking for the hoddied person it could have been UP TO a size 12. And Baker never says what size FOOT Cole has. Only that his various tests show it's a 12. He claims to have access to Cole's mother. Weird how he hasn't asked her what size foot he has, or if he ever owned a pair of Nike Speed Turfs. Cole said he owned them, and threw them away. Blind spots? That's negative evidence. The prosecution doesn't have to prove what didn't happen. You know what's really interesting? @accabbat has been following this case since before Baker identified Ms. Kerkhoff as his subject. I've got a video of him on a podcast (safely secured so it can't get erased,) months before Baker's November 8, 2025 article where @accabbat describes the bomber as wandering around aimlessly and that he doesn't know the area well. He also said the subject had to sit frequently because of the weight of the backpack, because he was "weak." What changed? Because now this all hinges on a semi-pro athlete who knows the area well having done it. BTW, they have also claimed at various times (with no evidence) the bombs were picked up and replanted shortly before 1pm on the 6th. How? If the pipe bombs "lit the fuse" as Baker claims, why would they plant them 17 hours before the big event and count on the incompetence (that actually occurred) that they would not be discovered. If that wasn't the case who picked them up when and replanted them? The Loudermilk witnesses are noise. I never worked a case of any substance where some witness(es) didn't misidentify the subject. Cole's defense team can call them if they want to waste some time. Let's see if Baker wants to respond to any of this.
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And for the Editors in the audience, obviously it’s *Cole* not Coal in an early paragraph.
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@SteveBakerUSA , care to unblock @FXRegan and civilly discuss the holes in your “investigation.”
Hey @TXStrong11 and @TrustIsEarnd - I'd like to respond to some of @SteveBakerUSA rant, but unfortunately he blocked me, because he wants to make it harder for people to see alternate opinions, so here goes. (And he'll see this, he see's all my posts even though he blocked me, and often responds.) First, IsThisReal Life, of course the DOJ would not cause themselves pain by arresting the wrong person in Brian Coal. They were literally 32 days away from the Statute of Limitations expiring when Coal was arrested, which would have made this whole thing disappear. No more questions asked. "It was unsolvable, these things happen," they could have said. Think about it logically, if the J5 pipe bomb was part of a "fedsurrection" you hoped to keep hidden, the best way to do that on December 4, 2025 was do nothing, not arrest some mope you know didn't do it. They didn't do that, they arrested the right guy. The changed alibi? Baker is obsessed with the puppies vs. dog scenario. It's nonsense. Notice how he doesn't try and discredit Dan Dickert as a witness, Ms. Kerkhoff's roommate who was there at the time? He's the alibi - nobody has accused Mr. Dickert of being part of the conspiracy or accused him of lying to the FBI. You know who wouldn't be in jail right now if he had an alibi witness as good as Mr. Dickert? Mr. Cole. Failed polygraph? Says who? Cole's lawyer said the polygraph examiner told Ms. Kerkhoff she failed. That's not the same as actually failing. It's a standard tactic (ask me how I know) for examiners to tell examinees they failed. Let's wait and see if we actually see the report, which will never see the inside of a courtroom for a bunch of reasons anyway. There is a high probability Ms. Kerkhoff's name never makes it into any trial. As for the questions the FBI won't answer - why would they? There is an ongoing prosecution. They don't answer questions about evidence in the middle of a prosecution. I'm not in the FBI anymore and have taken a pretty good stab at all these questions for months. It's what got me blocked by Baker and his ace investigator @accabbat. They don't have evidence of Cole's car driving away, they have a video of a car they THINK is Cole's car. They don't see him in it, and they can't prove it's his car. And they can't account for how the various traffic and Capitol cameras are time synced anyway. The shoes? The FBI said when they were looking for the hoddied person it could have been UP TO a size 12. And Baker never says what size FOOT Cole has. Only that his various tests show it's a 12. He claims to have access to Cole's mother. Weird how he hasn't asked her what size foot he has, or if he ever owned a pair of Nike Speed Turfs. Cole said he owned them, and threw them away. Blind spots? That's negative evidence. The prosecution doesn't have to prove what didn't happen. You know what's really interesting? @accabbat has been following this case since before Baker identified Ms. Kerkhoff as his subject. I've got a video of him on a podcast (safely secured so it can't get erased,) months before Baker's November 8, 2025 article where @accabbat describes the bomber as wandering around aimlessly and that he doesn't know the area well. He also said the subject had to sit frequently because of the weight of the backpack, because he was "weak." What changed? Because now this all hinges on a semi-pro athlete who knows the area well having done it. BTW, they have also claimed at various times (with no evidence) the bombs were picked up and replanted shortly before 1pm on the 6th. How? If the pipe bombs "lit the fuse" as Baker claims, why would they plant them 17 hours before the big event and count on the incompetence (that actually occurred) that they would not be discovered. If that wasn't the case who picked them up when and replanted them? The Loudermilk witnesses are noise. I never worked a case of any substance where some witness(es) didn't misidentify the subject. Cole's defense team can call them if they want to waste some time. Let's see if Baker wants to respond to any of this.
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Man, this was so much fun. I liked a character I did in here, I've got another short for another project with him as the protagonist.
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Journalism, especially in WDC, is the most self-absorbed profession in the world.
EXCLUSIVE: Last night, PBS News Hour White House correspondent Liz Landers and independent journalist Jim Acosta married at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington. See details of their special day here: washingtonian.com/2026/06/07…
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🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know D-Day Edition: John J. Pinder Jr. Technician Fifth Grade John J. Pinder Jr. landed on Omaha beach on his birthday. He didn’t make it off. Born June 6, 1912, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Joe Pinder was the oldest of three children. His father worked in the steel industry. He graduated as valedictorian of Butler High School in 1931. Pinder spent the next several years as a right-handed pitcher in the minor leagues. He played six seasons in the farm systems of the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Washington Senators, and Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1941 he won 17 games and was still chasing a shot at the major leagues when the war came. He entered the Army in January 1942 after Pearl Harbor. Assigned as a radio operator with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, he fought in North Africa and Sicily. In Sicily he earned a Bronze Star for staying at an observation post under fire. On June 6, 1944, Pinder landed with the first waves on Omaha Beach on his birthday. Communications were shattered. His job was to get a working radio ashore. He made it off the landing craft. They were 100 yards off the beach. Then he was hit. A round tore into his face after only a few steps off the boat. Pinder held the torn flesh of his face together with one hand, carried the radio with the other, and delivered the radio to his unit, while wading thru waste deep water. That should have been enough. It wasn’t. Weakened and bleeding, he turned around and went back into the surf and fire three more times to salvage communication equipment. He even recovered another workable radio. On the third trip machine gun fire hit him again, this time in the legs. Still he kept going. Weakening but exposed on the beach, he helped get the radios working so the men around him could call for support. While doing so, he was hit for the third time and killed. Medal of Honor. Posthumous. It was presented to his father on January 26, 1945. Pinder was initially buried in Normandy. In 1947 his family brought him home to Grandview Cemetery in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. He was the only professional baseball player awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II. John Pinder is an American Badass Thank you, John! 🫡🇺🇸
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They called them flying coffins. The men who volunteered to fly them knew exactly why. The Allied gliders of D-Day were made of fabric stretched over a frame of wood and metal tubing. They had no engine. No armor. No weapons. No parachutes for the men inside. They were towed to France at 130 mph on the end of a 300-foot nylon rope attached to a C-47, and when the rope was cut, there was one chance to land. One. No go-arounds. No second approach. Whatever was below you was where you were going. What was below them was Normandy at night. The Germans had spent weeks preparing. Under orders from Field Marshal Rommel, they had driven wooden stakes into every open field in the region, angled to impale gliders on landing. The French called them Rommelspargel. Rommel's asparagus. Thousands of poles, many with mines or artillery shells wired to the tips, packed into every field large enough to land on. What the glider pilots had not been properly told was the scale of the Norman hedgerows. The bocage. These were not English garden hedges. They were ancient earthen walls, some dating back centuries, topped with dense root systems and trees, rising 50 feet in places, bordering fields barely 200 yards long. A Horsa glider coming in at 100 mph hitting a hedgerow did not survive it. Neither did most people inside. Some fields were flooded. Some were mined. Many were both. 517 gliders went into Normandy. 97 percent were abandoned in the field by the end of the operation. Most were destroyed. General Don Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne, was in the first glider wave. His pilot managed to find a field near Hiesville and brought the glider down. It slid across the wet grass without slowing and hit a hedgerow at speed. The co-pilot died instantly. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Murphy, broke both legs. General Pratt suffered a broken neck. He became the first American general to die in the Battle of Normandy. His glider had landed in one piece. Sergeant Eric Wilson's glider did not. It hit a building at high speed. Both of Wilson's legs were broken. He was trapped inside the wreckage, unable to move, in enemy-held Normandy, for two and a half days before anyone reached him. Lieutenant Den Brotheridge had come in earlier than anyone, in the first glider to land in France, the silent coup de main assault on Pegasus Bridge just after midnight. His glider stopped 47 yards from its target. He led his men out at a run, reached the bridge, and was shot. He died within minutes, the first Allied soldier killed by enemy fire on D-Day. The men who survived the landing did not get to stop. Glider pilots were not assigned to combat units. Once down, they were expected to fight as infantry, dig foxholes, guard prisoners, carry ammunition, do whatever was needed. Most of them had trained to fly, not to fight on the ground behind enemy lines in the dark. They did it anyway. Of the 517 gliders that went in, 222 were Horsa gliders. Most were destroyed either on landing or by German fire in the hours that followed. The Waco CG-4As fared slightly better but 97 percent of all gliders from the entire operation were eventually abandoned in Norman fields, broken and empty. The men who flew them were not pilots in the traditional sense. They were soldiers who had been given just enough training to put an unarmed, engineless box of fabric and wood into a dark foreign field at 100 mph, full of men and equipment, with one attempt and no margin for error. Many of them got it exactly right. Many of them did not come home. Today is June 6th. Remember them too.
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