Jim Shell’s Post

Time to Speak Up: Postured for Operational Surprise There is a security control system within U.S. National Security Space fostering abuse and interfering with critical missions. While there is legitimacy to the security control system, leadership lacks awareness of the extent of the risk being incurred to missions vital to the United States and the resulting abuse and collateral damage. For years I have attempted, via formal channels, to bring light to this issue in a manner with the lowest possible OPSEC footprint. However, it is unfortunately now time to come forward publicly. Following are my allegations: ·      A security control system is supplanting the direction and authority of the US Space Force and USSPACECOM (high confidence). ·      There is direct and unauthorized interference of the Space Domain Awareness mission in violation of explicit, official policy (high confidence). ·      The system has demonstrated the potential to interfere with USNORTHCOM’s protection of the United States. Those attempting to highlight the critical issue were subject to accusations of being “problematic” and not following protocols. Attempts to bring forward the critical issue to leadership were obstructed (high confidence). ·      Intelligence Community insights into Russian and Chinese on-orbit activities have been hampered by the security system (high confidence). ·      Unpublished security rules are being enforced. Guardians have been indicted and removed from duty, threatened with a court martial, yet not provided an opportunity to provide their perspective. All the while, their chain of command was never informed of the nature of the wrongdoing. This was accompanied by an investigative report with many “factual inaccuracies” (high confidence). ·      Funds have been misappropriated (medium confidence). ·      There is a connection to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) activities (medium confidence). Please reference the attached for my complete statement.