"Ryan Schwank, who resigned from his job at an ICE academy in Georgia last week, told congressional Democrats at a hearing that the agency eliminated 240 hours of "vital classes" from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants.

"Law enforcement is a deadly serious business. It is not a place for shortcuts," Schwank said. "Deficient training can and will get people killed. ... ICE is lying to Congress and the American people about the steps it is taking to ensure that 12,000 officers can faithfully uphold the Constitution and perform their jobs."

Ahead of the hearing, Schwank provided a joint panel of House and Senate Democrats copies of internal ICE documents that he said show the extent of the cuts. The documents indicated that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia, shortened its training program from 72 days to 42 days.

Several of the lawmakers repeated calls for D/DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem to resign or be impeached."

~snip~

As a double graduate of FLETC from decades ago (uniformed and criminal investigator), I can tell you that Constitutional Law training was stressed. In fact, we helped the "Tackleberries" in our class study with index cards before the final test. One of my friends (a former US Army Ranger and Special Forces NCO), who was already an expert with firing weapons and hand-to-hand combat, was terrified of the final exam on Constitutional Law. So, we studied together. After the test results were handed out, we looked at each other in the classroom. "Whew!" 70!" he signaled me. For the final exam where we were tested in non-compliant arrests and other mischief, the "Tacklelberries" in turn would partner up with us bookworms. "Whew! Pass!" I signaled to my friend.

Nota Bene: Thanks to Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel, the once rigorous four-month long plus FBI Academy was similarly shortened to a scant eight weeks and a college degree is no longer required. Today, enlisted US Army MPs receive more training than FBI Special Agents. If I were to apply to NYC DOI or any agency for a position, I would ask for a non-lethal sidearm and emphasize that I underwent undiluted training and not this "here's your gun and badge, go get'em cowboy training" we see today.

And his Chicken Vindaloo (five out of five spicy). Biriyani rice, and Chala Masals.

Yum!

The late actor Robert Duvall and Sean Penn played in a movie last century about the LAPD and gangs.

The cops that brandish tattoos today are basically uniformed gang members, like ICE.

LA county correctional officers ran gladiator fights between juvenile detainees.

Those of you old enough to remember the British "Profumo affair" and the "Cambridge Five" scandals will see this Epstein fandango will be just as damaging. But the "Profumo affair" helped to topple Harold Macmillan's Conservative government.

UK PM Keir Starmer (Labor Party) may survive a no confidence vote if the Serious Crimes Office, now called the National Crime Agency (NCA), nets more Royals and Lords and other highly-placed muckety-mucks.

And right now the UK needs a solid anti-Kremlin government to help Ukraine and counter Vladimir Putin.

Epstein's nefarious empire is damaging the West five years after he somehow killed himself in near impossible conditions in his secure cell in the MCC.

Virulent antisemites will jump all over this and bray that Epstein's lucrative and sinister enterprise was a grand "Jewish conspiracy."

That might explain why USAG Merrick Garland, an Ashkenazi Jew, inexplicably sat on these explosive and gravely damaging files from 21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025.

But there are millions of Jews NOT involved in this sordid espionage affair, to wit: US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), House Democrat Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, ex-NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, and my fellow New Yorkers.

*** Gigolo Corey Lewandowski Entered Cockpit of DHS Jet Before Firing Pilot For Misplacing Strumpet Kristi Noem's Blanket ***

"Top US DHS aide good-for-nothing Corey Lewandowski entered the cockpit of a government jet uninvited during a flight last year, after which he fired a pilot over a misplaced blanket. Lewandowski, a long-time ally of Dummkopf Trumpf, was traveling with the inhuman D/DHS Kristi Noem when they discovered her blanket was missing."

"Lord" Mandelson.

Hmph.

There is a book titled The Unravelling about sexual lunatics and ------.

Today we are witnessing a slow unravelling of a blackmail-extortion-influence peddling enterprise linked to the Mossad.

AIPAC-ers like Josh Moskowitz (D-FL) or Alan Dershowitz will deflect and say the Russians are involved too.

Could be.

Israeli organized crime extends into Russa and the Russian mafia contains Chechens and Jews.

Money is money.

But the central figures are indisputably Jeffrey Epstein, who had the Mossad secure his Upper Eastside manse, and the repugnant Ghislaine Maxwell.

You could start to tell $#!+ was fcnked by Spring 2024

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-23 05:37 AM | Reply | Flag: Indeed. A Likudnik maniac said to drop a nuke on the Palestinians in Gaza

In the summer of 2024 , I calculated with pen and paper the IDF would kill 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza before 1 Jan 2025.

I was pretty close, but a little off. Then I added the +3,000 Arabs killed in Lebanon and I reached ~50,000.

Basically the Middle East has become Arab Killing Zones (AKZ) for the IDF: AKZ-Gaza, AKZ-West Bank, AKZ-Lebanon, AKZ-Syria, AKZ-Iran (Persian), AKZ-Yemen, AKZ-Somalia (Schwarzers).

And Dummkopf Trumpf has been continually bombing the Somalis. Each Hellfire missile or Reaper drone is expensive, so the hardworking American taxpayer continues enriching the oligarchs in the US Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) while making America enemies in the Middle East.

Worse, the USG has plenty of money for Murder-Death-Kill in USCENTCOM AOR, but not for our healthcare.

Republican Party = Police State.

Police State = Republican Party.

The erudite and calm Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum was forced to imprudently act against the drug cartels because of pressure from the bellicose Trumpf junta. She holds Mexican sovereignty sacrosanct as she is trying to uplift her people from poverty. But now these anti-cartel operations (with US intelligence support) are threatening the FIFA games in Mexico.

Oy, gevalt, what a creepy looking deviant.

Blech.

America is certainly on the right track.

Years ago, Israel's excellent hospitals treated wounded Muslim guerillas fighting Bashar al-Assad.

"They'll never come for me...."

And this ICE detainee comes from Morocco, a monarchy with a mukhabarat.

83 Not Jewish college kids:

#87 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-23 02:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

D/Mossad David Barnea and the Likud junta successfully negotiated with Palestinian resistance fighters for the release of Israeli hostages and three prisoner exchanges were conducted in late 2023.

The whole purpose of the 7 Oct 2023 raid was to capture as many prisoners as possible since the IDF was holding thousands of Palestinians in security detention without a hearing or even being formally charged with a crime, other than being a Palestinian male of military age (MAM).

In the US, there is no negotiating with these "no replacement Nazis" who will happily put us into ovens.

And his name sounds like a porn actor:

"....starring Bo French and Carlos Danger in...."

Hah!

Trumpf said last June that the US had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program and 4 days ago he said that Iran's nuclear potential had been "totally decimated".
So he's trying to force them into an agreement over a nuclear program that he claims they do not have?

#8 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-02-23 03:14 PM | Reply | Flag:Yup

@7

*** Iran Purchased Advanced MANPAD Systems from Russia ***

"Iran agreed to a secret 500 millionn Euro arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles in its most significant effort to rebuild air defenses shattered during last year's war with Israel. The agreement, signed in Moscow in December, commits Russia to deliver 500 man-portable "Verba" launch units and 2,500 "9M336" missiles over three years.

Under the Verba contract, the deliveries are scheduled in three tranches, running from 2027 through 2029. One person familiar with the transaction said it was possible a smaller number of the systems could have been already delivered to Iran."

Hi Doc Sarvis:

I finished reading Virginia Roberts Giuffre's book Nobody's Girl; hope you can borrow it from your library.

That book should have taken me two to three days to read, but I had to put it down after every chapter, so it took me almost ten days.

That poor girl never had a chance in life.

BTW: Republican Mike Huckabee may not be alone in his Bronze Age campfire sentiments about Israeli expansion.

*** Double-Dealing Oligarch Steve Witkoff Tells Faux News Iran Close to Making Nuclear Bomb ***

Good-for-nothing oligarch Steve Witkoff, a man with zero diplomatic training or experience, and who cozies up to two ICC-indicted war criminals (Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin), bleats to viewers on Faux News that Iran is "one week away from producing a nuclear bomb."

Somehow Steve Witkoff now has magical information on Iran's nuclear program.

Worse, he admitted that Dummkopf Trumpf's illegal act of war against Iran in June 2025 failed to cripple their nuclear-bomb making capabilities.

Dummkopf Trumpf and USSECDEF Pete Hegseth both hailed those strikes as successful in destroying Iran's bomb-making capabilities.