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ICE whistleblower warned of unprecedented lowering of standards' during hiring spree
apnews.com

... A supervisor overseeing background checks warned last year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was hiring many new officers who had not undergone basic vetting, violating federal rules and putting the agency at risk of misconduct, a newly released whistleblower complaint shows.

The official was a unit chief in ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, where background checks were backlogged as ICE added thousands of new officers to carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.

ICE's human resources division was making final job offers before preliminary vetting steps had been completed, including fingerprints, identity verification and credit checks, the official's complaint warned.

"This unprecedented lowering of standards sacrifices proper risk mitigation for expediency, placing DHS at risk of infiltration and insider compromise," the official wrote in a memo to the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General dated August 2025. ...


Meanwhile in the Trump-DoJ-suppressed Epstein files arena, Mr Leon Black is resisting a House subpoena.

So, yet another apparently trying to avoid testifying.

Why?

Grant McLennan - Ice in Heaven (1993)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Oh, my sweet lawyer
Won't you help me pay the rent?
Otherwise I'll do something strange
Make it look like an accident

[Chorus]
Ice on the bottom
Ice on the highest mountain
Is there ice in heaven?
Is there ice in heaven?

[Verse 2]
Come on, cute captain
Won't you help me steal this boat?
Tear down the flag, drop the sail
Try and keep this life afloat
...




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#139 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-03 03:29 PM
This is a lie...

Only if you kept your eyes and ears closed or avoided news programs that were shown even in Santa Clara, San Francisco and Marin Counties at the time. You can check 2024 news archives... or you can believe whatever you want.

Talk about incompetence.

You're confirming exactly what I said.

Imagine being more incompetent than Trump, and yet still supporting Biden/Harris.

Or... keep watching utter incompetence, corruption and stupidity "at the highest level" doing possibly irreversible damage to the sections of country's economy, military, foreign relationships etc., bordering on treason... "yet still supporting Trump."

When people are faced with two bad choices (i.e., a question of "who is worse" not "who is better"), like we were "blessed" with in the last 3 elections, courtesy of having our choices decided by extremist idiots in the primaries they will usually choose one (not voting is also a "choice") - ... but given what we already knew about Trump, I would choose (not "support") simple "incompetence" (surrounded by reasonably competent professionals instead of "pretend-competent" TV personalities) every time.


This is false because CNN did a ride along with Obama's ICE deporting people right off the streets of Chicago. [ICE] agents go searching for undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes while in the U.S. illegally.

Again confirming exactly what I said - no drama ride-along targeting illegals with criminal records, instead of deliberate militarized "wide net" show of force roundups of "suspicious" brown people and people without criminal records who had been here legally and in process of extending legal temporary or establishing legal permanent resident status.

There was no quota, no "in your face" militarization of ICE, no drama...

You can't possibly not see the difference, especially being well aware of Trump's "China Initiative" that only benefits China (or other countries), not the USA.


#136 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-03 02:29 PM
... our economy is doing fine. Our economic troubles are tied to Trump's stupid tariffs and war with Iran.

Well, "talk about incompetence"... and "yet still supporting Trump".

You sound almost like a few people here (who no longer post - Hans, TonyRoma, etc.) before 2024 elections. They kept reciting official NUMB3RS about inflation, GDP, and worrying about unemployment rate few months into November... even though I kept trying to explain that these don't represent the "economy" that > 2/3rds of the people see and experience, and besides, there are ["culture war"] issues they simply refused to see or acknowledge as relevant.

Yet now you're trying to defend objectively worse economic conditions for even larger segment of people.

Trump admin and followers are in exactly the same kind of self-denial - liar Bessent is arguing what economy shape is K- or C-... as if anyone cares:

www.zerohedge.com - The Return Of Economic Gaslighting

|------- ... According to nearly all the big economic indicators and aggregates, the economy was doing quite well...

... the Republicans are faced with the exact same choice the Democrats had been faced with before 2024. And, notably, they have decided to adopt the same strategy that helped torpedo the Democrats last time around. ...

The figures and specific talking points may differ, but the formula remains the same.

This kind of cyclical economic gaslighting is infuriating. But it isn't surprising. ...
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Background ...

Edwin H. Armstrong
www.britannica.com

... Invention of FM broadcasting.

In 1933 Armstrong secured four patents on advanced circuits that were to solve this last basic problem. They revealed an entirely new radio system, from transmitter to receiver. Instead of varying the amplitude, or power, of radio waves to carry voice or music, as in all radio before then, the new system varied, or modulated, the waves' frequency (number of waves per second) over a wide band of frequencies.

This created a carrier wave that natural static -- an amplitude phenomenon created by electrical storms -- could not break into.

As a result, FM's wide frequency range made possible the first clear, practical method of high-fidelity broadcasting. ...



@#25 ... Republicans can't win when Americans are allowed to vote. ...

Yup.

To wit ...

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," Pres Trump said...


Related ...

As US agriculture wilts under financial pressure, former Arkansas farmer cultivates US Senate bid
www.reuters.com

... A decade ago, Hallie Shoffner quit a career in non-profits to help her aging parents run the family farm. For more than a century, their land had endured droughts and floods, booms and busts, the shift from traditional farming to the mechanized, high-tech planting of rice, soy and other commodities that now dominate American agriculture. ...

... then Pres Trump came along ...

... At first, Shoffner thrived, proud to continue tilling their fertile soil on the western fringe of the Mississippi Delta. Last year, however, she came to a difficult, if unavoidable conclusion: The business, beset by increasingly high costs and vanishing profit margins, could no longer survive. She sold machinery, tools " nearly everything but the land and homestead built by her great-granduncle in 1901. ...


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