It's important to observe that, according to both Arpaio and Sheridan, what Montgomery ultimately gave them was "junk."
Similarly, two ex-NSA employees hired by the MCSO to examine Montgomery's work product in 2014 declared him to be "a complete and total fraud," stating that there was no way to know where the info he possessed came from.
For several months starting in the fall of 2003, Montgomery's analysis led directly to national code orange security alerts and cancelled flights. The only problem: he was making it all up. And you and me, the taxpayers, well, we paid for it.