Charles “Sam” Faddis is a retired American

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(CIA) operations officer, author, political operative, and

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Early life and education

Faddis graduated from

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and the

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Service in the Military

Faddis is a Captain (retired) and served US Army

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and

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(JAG) officer.

Service in the CIA

Faddis claims to have led the first CIA team into Iraq nine months in advance of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He then served as head of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center (CTC)’s Weapons of Mass Destruction unit.

Authorship and media analysis

Sam Faddis has authored numerous books on intelligence and the 2003 Iraq War. He is the author of ''Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA'' and ''Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion Of Homeland Security''. He co-wrote ''Operation Hotel California: The Clandestine War Inside Iraq''. Faddis' work has been questioned as having relied too heavily on self-research and scant citations in the bibliographies. A regular commentator on conservative media, Sam Faddis often shares support for conspiracy theories Faddis first appeared on

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about the

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and China. Faddis is a regular on

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's War Room.

Conspiracy theorist

After Faddis retired from the

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, he published ''And Magazine'', a news and conspiracy newsletter. He is a political operative and former

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Candidate in Maryland, now organizing statewide coalitions in Pennsylvania to spread

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about 2020 election conspiracies. Faddis organizes a coalition of self-described Patriot groups in Pennsylvania.

References

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