SOUTHCOM, Miami
“W
here do you get this stuff?” The Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security seemed incredulous as he looked up from his laptop screen to stare at the man sitting across the conference table from him at U.S. Southern Command headquarters.
“I explained that before you read the report, didn’t I?” The man who calls himself Bayer rocked back in his chair and returned the stare. Assistant Secretary Jim Kraak was a career bureaucrat who didn’t very much like what he’d just finished reading, and Bayer was pulling no punches with him. “Shake Davis and Mike Stokey have been out with the Operation Martillo troops in the field and in the boats—as opposed to sitting on their asses down in Belmopan. That last piece came in yesterday written by Lieutenant Al Kramer, the senior Navy re
