Scott Bennett
Scott Bennett is a former US army psychological warfare officer and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst. He was formerly with defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Bennett has a background in advertising, before being fast-tracked into the US military PSYOPS division, receiving a Direct Commission as an Officer, and held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance. He holds a B.S. in Advertising from George Mason University, an M.A. in International Business and Public Policy from San Jose State University, and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from The Catholic University of America.
As a defence analyst, Bennett has worked on various projects, including counterterrorist finance investigations. He was tasked with interviewing all the different agency teams to discover their particular expertise in Terrorist Threat Finance and formulate recommendations to improve their functionality. However, Bennett was eventually sacked from his job due to his zealous approach and went on to become a whistleblower, exposing fraud and corruption within the US war machine.
Bennett has also been involved in various other activities, including writing to US politicians and attempting to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption. He spent two years in jail as a result of speaking his mind and attempting to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption inside the US war machine.
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