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UPCOMING MEETINGS
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WINTERWeeklyVolume 180, Issue 245, January 5th, 2017
Jan 5Rick CrockerThe Samaritan Inn
Jan 12Earnest BurkeMLK
Jan 19Gerry MannCommunication & Adaptability
WWhhiittee--CCoollllaarr CCrriimmee CCoollllaarreedd!!
PPEEAAKKEERR dduu JJoouurr Thomas Class, Sr., Special Agent in Charge, FBI Dallas Division, paid Scary Bob
Epstein a left-handed compliment, saying that he didn’t recognize himself from Scary Bob’s introductions. He had the audacity to suggest that Scary Bob was prone to ex-aggeration; we all know better, don’t we?
KKiinngg DDaavviidd took time off from composing the Book of Psalms to open the last meeting of the year at 12:11, assigning Blair Ritchey to Pray and Kelly Palmer to Pledge. Roy Reeves was credited with Greeting, and, in Jason Kramer’s absence, Nathan Barbera was called upon to announce Vis-iting Rotarians. This was a trivially easy task, there being none. Nevertheless, Alex Johnson gave Scary Bob a run for his money
by introducing potential candidate Umair Ahmed. Sam Greif fed wife, Rosemary. In the second of his three duties today (photographer, Three Minutes of Fame, and
speaker introduction), Scary Bob ticked off what he does to stay busy.
• 6 years with Dallas Sheriff’s Reserve • 6 hours/week as Jail Bouncer • 19th Military Police Brigade guard • N. TX Crime Commission member • 11 years Captain in Civil Air Patrol • Airborne photographer • N. TX Israel Bonds Executive Cmte. • VP for Cyber-Patriots, N. TX Air
Force Association • TX Drug Demand Reduction spkr. • Adult Ed. Cmte. for Congregation
Shearith Israel & Temple Emanuel • Chair, TX Patriot Breakfast Forum • Hobbies: “combat tennis,” racquet-
ball, speed golf, martial arts, mountain biking & competitive shotgun and pistol.
• Academic: Dallas Theatre Center Playwriting class; working on “Jo-seph—Pharaoh and Conqueror.”
• Business: 41 years Merrill Lynch • Personal: Married Robbe 30 years
ago; two sons & three daughters. Larry FFllaasshh Flannery asked the spelling of one of his sons’ names and was told it’s “Barak, as in the Bible, not the President.” When KKiinngg DDaavviidd asked why he joined Plano Rotary Club, Scary Bob said, “I was kicked out of several other Rotaries.” A four-year service award went to Sara Akers. KKiinngg DDaavviidd announced the slate of offic-ers: President ......................... Rick Horne Past President ...... David McWhorter President-Elect .... Carrolyn Moebius Secretary .................... John Caldwell Treasurer ......................... Jim Cooper At Large 2nd year .............. Sara Akers ........................................... Mike Jobe ......................................... Larry Bisno At Large 1st year ........... Dennis Hōgg .............................................Olin Jaye ......................................... Maria Mott Nominations . Sam Greif, Rick Grady
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Pamela Little Jan 04
Jo Via Jan 05
Lynette Pieper Jan 06
David McWhorter Jan 15
Jerry Avis Jan 17
Sherman Millender Jan 19
John Brodhead Jan 20
Alan Feigenbaum Jan 21
Paul Hernandez Jan 25
JANUARYBIRTHDAYS
UPCOMING MEETINGS
FFllaasshh moved nominations be closed and voted up by Acclamation. It was seconded and so voted. Announcements continued to the effect that next week’s program is moved to the HHaaggggaarrdd PPaarrttyy BBaarrnn and 6:30. Please bring a coat, $20 for guests, and RSVP to Karen. Rutledge noted that the access road off the toll-way is closed; so we are to use the Parkwood entrance. KKiinngg DDaavviidd told us that Christmas and NNeeww YYeeaarr cancel the remainder of this year’s meetings. We meet next 5 Jan. Camille Ussery thanked all those who shopped and/or wrapped for Angel Tree. Now we are to show up for the Giv-ing at 2 pm on 17 December at her BTH Bank, SW corner of Preston and Park. There 11 families with 18 children, some newly-homeless, will enjoy The Holidays. Scary Bob introduced his friend, Thomas Class, Sr. FBI Director James B. Comey named Thomas M. Class, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Dallas Division. Mr. Class most recently served as Section Chief of the High-Value Detainee Inter-rogation Group in the National Security Branch at FBI HQ. He led an FBI-lead interagen-cy group that deploys worldwide the nation’s best interrogation resources against signifi-cant counterterrorism targets in custody. Mr. Class began his career as a Special Agent with the FBI in 1990. He was first assigned to the Columbus Resident Agency within the Atlanta Division, where he investi-gated a wide variety of criminal and national security matters. In 2005, Mr. Class was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent in the Counterter-rorism Division’s International Operations Section at FBI HQ. In that role, Mr. Class served as the Program Manager for terrorism investigations throughout the Midwest. In 2007, Mr. Class transferred to the Birmingham Division and served as a Supervi-sory Special Agent overseeing investigations of all white-collar crime, public corruption, civil rights, and critical response matters within the Northern District of Alabama. Mr. Class was promoted in 2011 to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Mobile Division’s National Security Branch with investigative and administrative oversight of all counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cyber, critical incident, human intelligence, and field intelligence matters within the Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Class served as a police officer and detective with the St. Petersburg, FL, Police Department. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of South Florida in 1981 and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbus State University in 1994. (Thomas’ Gal Friday operated his PowerPointTM presentation even though it was only Thursday. She told Sainted Editor that he couldn’t get his hands on the slides, so the wealth of data pre-sented thereon is necessarily truncated here. Sainted Editor can only type so fast.) Special Agent Class told us that his family moved here from the District of Columbia, and that his two sons are both in the FBI. One graduated from the Academy six weeks ago and has been assigned (surprise surprise) to the Dallas Division. Thomas is, of course, thrilled to be work-
ing with his son; he’s not sure that his son feels the same way about being supervised by his Dad. But it’s only for six more weeks; Thomas retires upon the inauguration of the new President. (Surely that’s coincidental.) His “baby girl,” now 31, graduated from Princeton. In preparation for his talk here today, Thomas perused our Rotary website and discovered, from our Mission Statement, that we share properties with the FBI. We pro-vide humanitarian service and advance world peace, and the Bureau’s Mission is to Serve and Protect the American People and the Constitution. So they’re both policemen and national security agents. The FBI deals with
• Weapons of Mass Destruction • Public Corruption • White-collar Crime • Organized Crime • Civil Rights • Counterintelligence and • Cyber-Crime
“When Herb [Hoxie] was in the FBI, we had Intelligence, but we didn’t talk about it.” It’s gone from “reactive to proactive” just in the span of his tenure. When he arrived in 1990, the FBI solved crimes very well, but that’s reac-tive; there must be a crime to solve. After 9/11, the protec-tion of the public necessitated being proactive, to predict and interdict threats. The FBI had to “know what we don’t know.” So the FBI is now in the business of “stopping crime before it happens, and we are stronger for it.” The priorities for the agency are
Protect the United States from terrorist attack Protect the United States against foreign intelli-
gence operations and espionage Protect the United States against cyber-based at-
tacks and high-technology crimes Combat public corruption at all levels
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Rosemary Greif Sam Greif
Visting Rotarian Home Club
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Protect civil rights Combat transnational/national crimi-
nal organizations and enterprises Combat major white-collar crime Combat significant violent crime Support federal, state, local, and in-
ternational partners
And it must have partners if it is to accomplish these goals. Obvious partners include other law en-forcement agen-cies; unobvious ones include uni-versities. Of course, Agent Class considers the North Texas area as the best for law enforce-ment. “Everybody pitches in to get the job done.” Often the partners work at the Division HQ, side-by-side with FBI staff, and Thomas “can’t tell one from the other.” They’re paid by their home agencies but have top security clearances and access to all FBI facilities. Today’s FBI has
• 35,000 employees around the globe • 56 Field Offices • 350 Resident Agencies and • 60 Legal Attachés (helping combat or-
ganized crime and corruption) The Dallas Division is the 12th largest in the agency. It covers 125K square miles and protects 9 million people (about ½ Texas) with 12 Resident Agencies and 700 employees. Three other offices span the state. Their organizational chart shows two criminal branches plus intelligence, national security, and operations support. Currently their division is working cases in public cor-ruption, complex financial crime, transnation-al organized crime, and counterterrorism.
1. Anthony Robinson, a former DA, is accused of soliciting bribes.
2. John Wiley Price comes to trial in February; thankfully, he’s the next Special Agent’s headache.
3. Stanley Jonathan Fortenberry pled guilty in a $0.9M oil & gas fraud.
4. 50 drug ring perps were arrested and arraigned in 8 hours one morning with cooperation between partners!
5. Four Southlake drug hitmen fled to Mexico, but, with the cooperation of one of them, all the others were lured back and arrested.
6. Bilal Abood, who had pledged alle-giance to ISIS, was arrested as he boarded a plane for Syria. The FBI tries to not inflict terrorists on other nations.
Then there’s the “Apple Encryption Dance,” solved when someone gave them the keys to unlock the iPhoneTM. ISIS recruits here and moves their followers to the Dark Net where heavy encryption makes them difficult to track. So all of that presents a dilemma for a Free Society. How much privacy are we will-ing to exchange for security? Thomas expects “more and more con-versation about this” in 2017. FFllaasshh Flannery asked the delicate question of Hillary’s Server vs. the FBI. Someone reminded FFllaasshh that Thomas packs heat. Agent Class put on his class act to say that the FBI tries manfully to steer clear of politics, but Comey was between a rock and a hard place; having told Congress that the case was closed, he was obliged by law to notify it when the case reopened. He made the “awful” rather than the “catastrophic” choice. Kelly Palmer asked about proliferation of nukes and was told that those are terrorists’ #1 target. It remains a problem worldwide. KKiinngg DDaavviidd presented the Desk Organizer, led us in the Four-Way Test, cautioned us about Rotary going dark for the next four weeks, and dismissed us at 1:07.
Guests & Visiting Rotarians Proposed Members
Plano Rotary ClubBoard of Directors
2016-2017
PresidentDavid McWhorter
President ElectRick Horne
SecretaryJohn Caldwell
TreasurerJim Cooper
Past PresidentKelly Palmer
Sergeant at ArmsJason Kramer
Membership ChairHoward Matson
Public Relations ChairCarrolyn Moebius
R.I. Foundation ChairJamie Schell
At LargeSara Akers (2 Year term)Mike Jobe (2 Year term)Mike Robnett (1 Year term)Justin Roche (1 Year term)Maria Mott (1 Year term)Larry Bisno (2 Year term)
Business SecretaryKaren Sheldon
Bulletin EditorDr. Chris Parr
Bulletin PhotographerRobert Epstein
Bulletin DesignerBrenda IrigoyenAlphagraphics
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