Derek Mead

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I am the happiest man on the internet. CCO/SVP News of Straight Arrow, @san.com. Fear no fact. Motherboard forever.

A bar chart of a workout plan for an hour and 41 minute bike ride focused on repeated short, hard efforts
30-50 feral cyclists riding in a tight pack up a winding, shallow tree-lined climb.
Screenshot of the previously linked article of a paragraph reading: "In March, Patel and his team brought at least one case of bourbon to the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia, for a “training seminar,” where Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes provided mixed-martial-arts instruction to aspiring FBI agents and senior staff. At one point at least one bottle went missing, which caused the director to “lose his mind,” according to clients of Kurt Siuzdak, a retired agent who has assisted FBI agents, including whistleblowers, with legal issues. Siuzdak told me that multiple agents contacted him for legal guidance after Patel began threatening to polygraph and prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. “It turned into a shitshow,” Siuzdak said. Other attorneys told me they received similar calls from FBI employees regarding concerns about Patel’s bottles."