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THREAD - To all my Twitter friends: I need to get something off my chest. I have spent the majority of my adult life working with and 1/34
for the US military and intelligence groups. I am not a man who is prone to emotionalism when it comes to my work. I know the 2/34
seriousness of the arena, the people, and the consequences of my professional actions. Without getting into the details, I was 3/34
present last summer when the intelligence community detected the Russian cyber attack on our country and our election. For several 4/34
months after, I fought hard to both bring out the truth of what we witnessed and to fight back against those that perpetrated the 5/34
attack. On November 9th, I realized we in the intelligence community had failed to protect our nation from a foreign country's 6/34
effort at a hostile takeover of our highest political office. That's when I came to Twitter and activated my account from its dormant 7/34
status. Since then, I have joined the Resistance and have proudly fought a new type of battle, a war against propaganda, hatred, 8/34
racism and misogyny. I am grateful for the other people I have met and interacted with in this movement. I knew tRUmp before the 9/34
election and I was fully aware of the danger he represented. I thought I knew how evil was and I was prepared to go the distance to 10/34
stand up against him. But I have to admit now that I was wrong. I did not actually know the full extent of Donald tRUmp's depravity. 11/34
My wife is from the island of Puerto Rico. Many of family members are still there. I was and still am committed to fighting tRUmp. 12/34
But even though a man is not supposed to admit things like this, just a short while ago I read the report of what happened at a 13/34
hospital in PR. All of the ICU patients died after the storm hit last week. This was more than I was prepared for. After putting my 14/34
children to bed a kissing them goodnight, I went out to my lab to work. But instead, I broke down and cried. How could this be 15/34
happening in our country. I had personally seen these types of horrors in the countries I have been in over my life. But to think 16/34
they could be happening in America, the country l have fought and bled for, was just beyond my ability to rationalize. As I laid my 17/34
head on my desk, my tears welled up. The patients who were in the ICU of that hospital were at the place where they should have been 18/34
safe. They were the weakest members of our society. They were children and elderly and helpless, and I realized that I was not only 19/34
powerless to help them, but I was partially to blame. Even now as I write this, I feel a deep responsibility. I know what the 20/34
Russians did. I saw it happening. I knew the evil that tRUmp was and could unleash. I lived through the 60s in Memphis, Tennessee. I 21/34
have seen this up close and personally. But I did not foresee the callous, indifferent, and intentional negligence that this monster 22/34
would perpetrate against our own citizens. After my tears abated, I lifted my head up. I wiped my eyes on my sleeve. Then I 23/34
remembered something my grandfather told me when I was a boy trying to understand what the civil rights movement was about. I could 24/34
not understand why some people treated other people with such hatred when they didn't even know them. They just knew the color of 25/34
their skin. He told me that there will always be people who are evil. But that the greatness of America is that there are always more 26/34
good people than there are bad people. I still believe this. I still believe that our country is more good than bad. And I am still 27/34
willing to fight and die for the things our country is supposed to stand for. I vowed to protect and defend our constitution and that 28/34
vow has no time limit. I will fight. I will not stop. I will raise my children to believe in the words that founded this great 29/34
experiment. I will teach them the truths that we hold self-evident: that all men are created equal and they are endowed with the 30/34
inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I will give my dying breath to bring down these monsters who would 31/34
pervert our system to their own greed and avarice and then stand idly by while innocent men, women and children die from their 32/34
incompetence and criminal negligence. This is my promise to my children and to you, Twitter. This fight is not over, not by a long 33/34
shot. Evil may be rampant, but it will not win. Not on my watch. 34/34
