I apologize for not getting back sooner zeus. I have been busy researching and reading and playing fetch with Dallas. I do my best thinking that way.
And it keeps my dog happy.
I've been trying to determine where and why this thread got derailed. And it appears member Anotherreiner had a great deal to do with disrupting the
flow. So I have attempted to determine exactly what her points were.
I think Dougs Silence in reply to some relevent questions speaks volumes. Since he is not going to answer the questions I have asked I will tell you
the answers. If anyone wants to find some "Evidence" to Refute it...more power to him.

I can't seem to find the relevant questions she is asking. But I'm going to attempt to answer the questions she asked that I feel are relevant to
this thread. And I have a few questions for Anotherreiner.
You say you were looking to buy another horse. Now, I tried 'horses for sale' and 'horse buying' but neither led me to ATS. I guess ATS doesn't
sell horses. So Anotherreiner, what search term did you use to arrive at this particular thread?
What were your qualifications that led them to ask YOU to go on a secret mission?
He has no qualifications...there was NO secret Mission.

Sometimes the best qualifications for doing something is to have no qualifications to do it. In this instance, the options were to have an intel agent
train horses, or have a well known horse trainer gather intel. Which makes more sense?
Why do you only have a NRHA show record AFTER going overseas...and nothing in the states? (except one show in 1992) .
BECAUSE HE WAS SUSPENDED
from the NRHA here in the U.S. !

Irrelevant. Unless you are interviewing for employment. And where it might be true, it has no bearing on the events being investigated here.
Where is the 50 pages of documentation, hours of video and recordings you presented to Senator Smith? If you in fact have all this already in a
presentable format...where is it?
THERE IS NONE...he is making it up as he goes along.

It should be apparent the documentation and recordings were presented to Senator Smith. What the Senator did with them we do not know. Nor do we know
what format they were in when they were presented.
And how do we know your recordings are not fake? There are no names mentioned...so you could be talking about anyone and TOO anyone. And why is there
only partial recordings..where is the rest of the conversation?

We don't know those recordings are not fake. If you have proof they are, please present it.
Are you currently a AQHA/NRHA member in good standing or are you suspended?

Another irrelevant question. But to offer some insight: sometimes a door closes and another opportunity presents itself. Sometimes, when you are
dealing with money, power, and government a door is closed to direct you in a direction they feel is necessary. Food for thought.
Where is the video of you riding prior to 1996 with your so called system that you claim was stolen?

I haven't seen that claim made in the 40 pages I read. I may have overlooked it, however. So please bring that post to my attention. I do see where
the statement was made that Doug has spent years working on his system.
In every facet of his life...Doug is a person of questionable character...the biggest one being he has lied about his accomplishments (50 World
Champions). It is no different here with the crud he is trying to feed to people.

This is a broad brush. Unless one has extensive knowledge of, and is privy to every event in another person's life, it is an outrageous claim. But as
I have seen, Anotherreiner offers a great deal of knowledge regarding who Doug worked for, the horses he trained, the barns he used, the people he
knew.....in fact, she recalls a 'burgundy dually with primer' he drove
ten years ago!
I can't figure if that poster is jealous, obsessed, or perhaps a stalker.
In the end, there is not one single word Anotherreiner has offered that carries weight, or shows any merit as to whether Doug Phipps was recruited to
go overseas to gather intel.
Now what I know to be true:
American cowboys are patriotic and loyal to a fault. Emeessa has even given us specific point where Doug demonstrated this trait.
And what I see:
Doug feels betrayed by his country.
He acted as a patriotic American cowboy who was overseas training horses and standing toe to toe with some very bad people who were planning some evil
to be carried out against his nation. He was, at the request of his friends/ government acquaintances collecting intel that would help stop, or punish
the perpetrators. And he admits to turning them in.
Yet, he does not come home to a cowboy welcome. Rather he comes home to find that, Clinton Anderson of Australia, has taken the very system of
training horses that he has worked to perfect all these years, and is selling it to Americans.
Anybody see anything otherwise?
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