Category Archives: Intelligence

U.S. Capitol Insurrection

Posted on 5 January 2024 by Darin

As we approach the third year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, I thought it would be interesting to show a couple other background pieces: This is video that appears to be from Donald Trump Jr. around the time of … Continue reading →

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Critical Thinking

Posted on 8 April 2023 by Darin

Found this graphic online. It is always great to review over refreshers like this to keep yourself sharp.

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Probability

Posted on 6 April 2023 by Darin

What do you mean when you say something is “probably” going to happen? Does that mean 50%? Greater? Less? In many fields, especially in intelligence, people use words to describe the likelihood of something happening. Sherman Kent, one of the … Continue reading →

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Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR-20 Version 3 and the TRAP-18

Posted on 7 February 2023 by Darin

Lee Vargen and I spent over a year going back and forth on the research and this article. Abstract: Sovereign Citizens comprise an understudied right-wing extremist movement in the United States who have grown in notoriety in recent years due … Continue reading →

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The January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol: What the TRAP-18 can tell us about the participants.

Posted on 31 October 2022 by Darin

I started working on this project in the Summer of 2021. Citation Challacombe, D. J., & Patrick, C. L. (2022). The January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol: What the TRAP-18 can tell us about the participants. Journal of Threat Assessment … Continue reading →

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