Chapter 9: Waiting for the Oliver North Moment

Every major scandal seems unbelievable—until it isn’t. Oliver North’s Iran Contra witness testimony in Congress was one such moment. CIA drugs and gun running ops like to hide behind a uniform.

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Reconstruction of George Webb meeting with Chief of Staff of President Havel in 1989.

Chapter 8

Prague: Watching an Empire Collapse

By the time I reached Washington years later in 2016 to investigate Trump Russia Russia, I was already suspicious of the DNC pawning off Dmitri Alperovich and Hillary’ Russian as somehow being “Donald Trump’s Russians”.

As I entered the world ofbTrump Russia cyber espionage in 2016, with DNC foreign influence operations, and the increasingly complex world of intelligence agencies working for the DNC, I often found myself thinking back to Prague in 1989.

Everything that fell from the Old Soviet Union, including cyberhackers, were moved to the United States to continue low intensity cyber warfare. I saw it firsthand in several trips to the former Communist Czech Republic before and after the collapse of the Soviet Empire

I was in Prague in 1989 and after with my good friend, Peter Schmida, who had been on the Communist Czech Government watchlist a few months before.

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Chapter 7

The World Series of Mossad

September 2016 — Before Washington, D.C.

When people ask where my Washington investigation began, they usually expect me to answer, “Washington.”

They’re wrong.

It began in Chicago.

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hiChapter 6: Crossing the Rubicon

In June 2016, news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked. The story quickly became one of the defining political controversies of the election season.

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Chapter 5

The Drones Come Home to Roost

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan changed far more than the countries where they were fought. They changed the way governments gathered information, tracked people, monitored populations, and projected power. What began as battlefield technology overseas would eventually migrate across borders and into domestic life. The drones, sensors, databases, satellites, surveillance platforms, and intelligence systems developed during two decades of war did not remain confined to distant deserts and mountains. They came home.

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Chapter 4: Unraveling the Terror- Counter Terror Plan

Princeton, New Jersey became one of the places where many of the questions that would later dominate my reporting first began to take shape.

During my time in Princeton, I followed the emerging military theories associated with General David Petraeus and the broader discussions surrounding counterinsurgency warfare.

These ideas would later become central to American military operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. At the time, however, they appeared to be part of an evolving doctrine for managing unstable regions, insurgencies, and proxy conflicts across the developing world.

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Chapter 3: The 9/11 Commission Cover-Up

The further I followed the signals surrounding September 11, 2001, the more I began to recognize a pattern that reminded me of another chapter in American history. To me, the official investigations into both the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the attacks of September 11 shared a similar characteristic: both appeared to define the boundaries of inquiry rather than pursue every lead wherever it might lead.

IB Hale, an FBI sniper who went to work for the CIA, Insall Baines Hale, got Lee Harvey Oswald a job at a Jaggers Stovall, a U-2 spy plane photo reconnaissance processing lab, before the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This Oswald connection was ignored by the Warren Commission. IB Hale’s wife getting Oswald a job at the TSBD was also ignored. The son of IB Hale, Robert Allen Hale, murdering John Connelly’s daughter a few years before the JFK assassination, was also ignored.

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Chapter 2: We Can’t Call It Al-Qadi

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Chapter One: The Early Signal

In the Fall of 2001, I packed my belongings and left California.

On paper, it looked like a career move. I was leaving Silicon Valley and heading east to take an New York City position with Keynote Systems, first in Manhattan and later in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Introduction: Chasing the Signal

Every investigation begins with a question. Sometimes that question concerns a single event. More often, it concerns the systems that surround it.

In June 2026, federal authorities announced the arrest of five men accused of participating in an alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House using drones, firearms, and other weapons.

Prosecutors described the case as a coordinated conspiracy involving individuals from multiple states, connected through online communications and shared grievances.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/five-men-arrested-charged-plot-attack-kill-government-officials-others-attending?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The allegations remain subject to the judicial process, and the defendants are entitled to the presumption of innocence unless proven guilty in court.

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The following is an outline of an upcoming book. I will publish it here on Substack. The book is the result of a collaboration with Peter Duke, with new tools available to Citizen Journalists in the fight for truth against the Deep State.

George Webb and Author Peter Duke in Oxnard, California. Peter and George’s collaborative space for citizen-journalist news-gathering events was burned to the ground last year in Pacific Palisades, California.

CHASING THE SIGNAL

Subtitle:
A Reporter on the Road from 9/11 to the Age of Surveillance

Book Treatment

For twenty-five years I chased stories across America and around the world. Some began with wars. Some began with corruption. Some began with a single source, a single document, or a single question that refused to go away.

What connected them all was a signal buried beneath noise. I use my thirty-five years as a network analyst to see through the smoke of twenty-five years of American History to reach the true metadata of what actually occurred and who is responsible.

Chasing the Signal is the story of one reporter’s journey through the defining events of post-9/11 America. It is not simply a collection of investigations. It is a first-person account of how the institutions of government, intelligence, media, technology, and politics transformed during the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

The story begins in New York City one year after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Working in Lower Manhattan exactly one year later, I walked past Ground Zero each day while America launched wars overseas and built new security systems at home. The country was entering a new era, though few understood where it would lead.

The second chapter follows the opening years of the War on Terror. Afghanistan and Iraq became more than military conflicts. They became catalysts for an expanding intelligence architecture. New databases, surveillance authorities, and security institutions emerged. The promise was protection. The long-term consequences remained unclear.

The third chapter follows the expansion of NATO-era interventions into regions such as Kosovo, Bosnia, Libya, and Syria. While each conflict appeared unique, recurring networks of governments, contractors, intelligence services, media organizations, and policy advocates appeared repeatedly. The chapter explores the development of modern interventionist policy and the growing relationship between information campaigns and military action.

The fourth chapter examines the rise of digital intelligence. During these years technology transformed every aspect of communication. Mobile phones, social media platforms, and cloud computing generated unprecedented amounts of information. The question increasingly became who controlled the data and how it could be used.

The fifth chapter brings the narrative to Washington, D.C. During years spent reporting in the nation’s capital, I encountered a city powered by information. Congressional offices, lobbying firms, intelligence agencies, contractors, political consultants, and media organizations formed a dense ecosystem where information functioned as both currency and weapon. The chapter explores the culture of influence that shapes modern governance.

The sixth chapter focuses on the congressional information technology investigations that consumed years of reporting. What began as a technical story evolved into a deeper examination of institutional accountability, political protection, and the difficulty of pursuing complex investigations in a hyper-partisan environment. The chapter serves as both investigative narrative and personal turning point.

The seventh chapter examines the information wars of the late 2010s. Russiagate, impeachment battles, leaks, anonymous sources, social media campaigns, and competing narratives created an environment in which truth itself became contested terrain. Journalists, citizens, and institutions increasingly struggled to separate evidence from narrative.

The eighth chapter turns to the pandemic years. Emergency powers expanded. Governments, corporations, media organizations, and technology platforms assumed unprecedented roles in public life. The systems built after 9/11 found new applications in a society confronting crisis. Public trust simultaneously became more important and more fragile than ever.

The ninth chapter moves west to California. Living in mission housing, temporary residences, and modest accommodations while conducting investigations, I encountered another dimension of the American story.

Los Angeles represented the intersection of entertainment, technology, defense contracting, political influence, and cultural power. The chapter explores the enduring questions surrounding Hollywood, narrative formation, influence networks, and the historical echoes that continue to shape modern California.

The tenth chapter explores the emergence of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and behavioral modeling. The surveillance systems that began as tools for national security evolved into systems capable of tracking, categorizing, and influencing populations at unprecedented scale. Technology companies increasingly occupied positions once associated with governments. The signal became harder to find beneath oceans of data.

The eleventh chapter returns to the road. Thousands of interviews, countless miles, temporary homes, borrowed rooms, mission residences, and long drives reveal an America rarely seen through official channels. The chapter reflects on the people encountered along the way—citizen journalists, whistleblowers, researchers, veterans, public officials, and ordinary citizens who contributed pieces of a much larger puzzle.

The final chapter asks what twenty-five years of investigation ultimately revealed. The answer is not a single conspiracy, institution, or ideology. Instead, it is the realization that modern power operates through networks. Political power, financial power, technological power, intelligence power, and media power increasingly overlap and reinforce one another. Understanding these systems requires persistence, skepticism, curiosity, and a willingness to follow facts wherever they lead.

Chasing the Signal is ultimately the story of a reporter pursuing questions across a rapidly changing America. It is the story of wars, technology, politics, surveillance, media, and culture. Most of all, it is the story of the search itself—the search for truth in an age increasingly defined by information, distraction, and competing realities.

The signal is still there.

The challenge is learning how to hear it.

George Webb with Author Peter Duke and his wife Jessica with Quigley, the Wonder Dog in Oxnard, California. Many thanks to Peter Duke over the last decade for citizen journalism charrettes in Southern California until the studio was burned down last year in the Palisades Fire.

Our Neighborhood News And Health group hosts a citizen journalism school on the border of perennial swing states, Michigan and Ohio with frequent news gathering events in Pennsylvania.

Our Citizen Journalist group called out the Corona military Live Exercise in March 2020 as it was happening.

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Part 1: Why I Went to New York

I moved to New York one year after 9/11. Like millions of Americans, I watched the towers fall and felt that something fundamental had changed. The country seemed different. The world seemed different. I wasn’t a journalist then. I was a technology professional who understood networks, communications, and the growing import…

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President Donald Trump has made the claim on Truth Social that during the May ceasefire in Iran, the US has siphoned more that 100 million barrels of oil with 200 ships.

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George Webb Investigative Roundup

Here is the five minute summary of the one hour livestream.

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For years, the battle cry of independent media was directed at the legacy press.

CNN.

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The Rothschild Replacement Plan was simple - replace the leading proponent of Trump with the leading opponent of Trump by Summer of Midterms. With Candace Owens meeting with Vladimir Putin yesterday at the St. Petersburg, international economic forum, the only rejoinder that seems fitting is “mission accomplished”.

The first rule of any homicide investigation is to examine means, motive, and opportunity.

I applie this framework to a real world political assassination that shook the international establishment.

Charlie Kirk was a rising political influencer whose popularity with young voters threatens powerful interests operating behind the scenes. Charlie Kirk inevitably encountered intelligence veterans, political operatives, media personalities, oligarchs, financiers, and competing factions inside government agencies.

Who could possess the resources necessary to conduct a sophisticated international operation renderingnor assassination of Charlie Kirk?

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Repo Man

Vladimir Putin, Candace Owens, and the Question of Who Really Owns Iran’s Uranium

By George Webb

Every once in a while, a geopolitical story emerges that sounds less like diplomacy and more like a Hollywood movie.

This one could be called Repo Man.

The premise is simple.

What happens when the supplier of a strategic asset decides it wants its property back?

For more than a decade, analysts have viewed Iran’s nuclear program through the lens of sanctions, inspections, centrifuges, and enrichment levels. But another possibility exists—one that receives far less attention.

What if the story is not about Iran building a nuclear capability?

What if the story is about ownership?

What if Russia believes that some portion of the nuclear infrastructure and nuclear material connected to the Iran nuclear framework originated from Russian agreements, Russian technical support, Russian fuel services, or Russian-backed nuclear arrangements?

And what if Moscow believes that changing geopolitical conditions now justify bringing some of that material home?

That is where the Repo Man theory begins.

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Newport Beach, California - An intenational nuclear spy for Iran was arraighned yesterday in Orange County, California by the FBI.

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Let the distressed Iranian Uranium Games begin with Michael Farmer of Rothschild Metals in St. Petersburg, who meets with his old trading partner, Vladimir Putin, while his daughter-in-law, Candace Owens, steals the spotlight.

We are seeing the role previously played by Hunter Biden being replaced live on stage by his understudy, Candace Owens.

Ostensibly, Candace Owens is meeting with Vladimir Putin so he can act as a tour guide for her and her four children through St. Petersburg museums.

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