Update: Kash Patel Fires 10 of the FBI Agents That Eagerly Acted as Joe Biden's Secret Police

FBI fires 10 involved in Jack Smith's classified docs probe of Trump
By Josh Christenson
The FBI has dismissed 10 agents and analysts involved in former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents prosecution of President Trump, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed Thursday.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that subpoenas were sent to Kash Patel, who now serves as FBI director, and Susie Wiles, now Trump's White House chief of staff, during the 2024 campaign.
Patel told Reuters, which first reported on the subpoenas, that agents had sought his phone records "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight."

If you recall, these rogue agents previously claimed that their targets could not be warned by the phone company that they were being wiretapped, claiming that they were "flight risks" who would flee the country if they knew the feds were on to them.

Under questioning, various malefactors were forced to admit that no, they never really thought Republican Senators were "flight risks" at all.

An FBI official told The Post that it wasn't "just phone records and subpoenas -- but a massive targeting operation" that likely involved more than just the two Trump administration officials.
A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Related: It's the Russiagate Plot's ten year anniversary.

Russiagate began 10 years ago today, documented in a Clinton campaign email discussing their Swiftboat project to smear Trump. So much evil was set in motion that day, and yet absolutely no one has been held accountable. pic.twitter.com/XVfT2VE8QK
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 26, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:10 PM

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1 ST.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:10 PM (c27kw)

2 Firings aren't nothing.

Even if they don't get prosecuted, at least they got fired.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 04:11 PM (a+4eV)

3 Prosecutions?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (c27kw)

4 In before the ham and eggers comment

Posted by: Beartooth at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (ggkmJ)

5 Good lord

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (wBaIH)

6 Even if they don't get prosecuted, at least they got fired.

Indeed, they are no longer ham-and-egging. I'd like to also see them forced to listen to Kamala's speeches on a loop, but firings are a good start.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (2ocoG)

7 >>>Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Seize their phone records and see who put them up to it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (dK+Kv)

8 It's a start.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (zjgNU)

9 Prosecutions?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (c27kw)

But this is how it would actual prevent the next time.

So there's going to be a next time when the Democrats get power again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 04:13 PM (zjgNU)

10 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

@ElonMusk
and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals."

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

11 Things seem to be starting to come out. Maybe these were teed up to start as a trickle and increase to a flood starting with SOTU and through to the mid-term election. I can hope anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

12 Who knew Elon Musk would go from being an interesting figure to being an amazingly important figure.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 04:15 PM (pZEOD)

13 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
[ . . . ]
Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

The Resistance is burrowed in like a tick.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

14 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

Sounds like more firings inbound.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (2ocoG)

15 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

Let's see if she fires people.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (a+4eV)

16 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

@ElonMusk
and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals."
Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

TREASON.

They should be dragged out onto Union Square and summarily executed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (zjgNU)

17 They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals.
____

Will these employees get the gibbet, or be tossed into the oubliette?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:16 PM (Dv3i1)

18 I wonder how long Noem's team were watching the staffers suck up the information off her phone and noting who they were transmitting it to.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)

19 Abolish the FBI.

Posted by: Ham N Egger at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (hXJe5)

20 A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

Good. Now we know that the FBI Agents Association is fine with its members participating in intelligence operations against the political leadership's enemies.

Had this organization been smart, it would have denounced the rogue agents or at the very least, kept its head down and its mouth shut.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (COQGW)

21 violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."

OK, I'll bite. How exactly did these people risk their lives to protect our country? What did they do that protects our country?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 26, 2026 04:19 PM (FMtrg)

22 Let's see if she fires people.

I mean, we know what she does to dogs...

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:21 PM (2ocoG)

23 How exactly did these people risk their lives to protect our country?
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Same way Lt Col "Bearclaw" Vindman did.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:21 PM (Dv3i1)

24 "The Resistance is burrowed in like a tick." Posted by: Kindltot

yes, but ticks don't have foreign and domestic enemies supporting them.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (vbXSk)

25 I wonder how long Noem's team were watching the staffers suck up the information off her phone and noting who they were transmitting it to

If Elon was involved, that means probably Big Balls and others were too, and I'm sure they probably did that.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

26 I worked for a large corporation. One of our founders died. The next day was business as usual. I retired; the company is still making money.

What makes these government drones think they are so important that the country can't go on without them?

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (pduCL)

27 Significantly worse than Watergate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (Dv3i1)

28 A Wall of Shame in the lobby might be a start.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (FhXTo)

29 Well they had her purse didn't they?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (c27kw)

30
Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

@ElonMusk
and his team were extremely helpful to me. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings. They had done that to several of the politicals."
Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (G0vdT)

WTF is right and what really galls me is their hubris that they'll never be found out.

They really think it's their birthright to rule over the rest of us.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (ANQtD)

31 If Trump was really in the Epstein files in a bad way, there would have been no reason for the Dems to set up this Russia nonsense.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (PoA2o)

32 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (pDt9x)

33 Biden's controllers' Secret Police.

Shouting and whispering Joe was just the front man.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (NFX2v)

34 You're fired.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (c27kw)

35 18 I wonder how long Noem's team were watching the staffers suck up the information off her phone and noting who they were transmitting it to.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)
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Yep, that's what I'm wondering. I wonder if that story of her flying around in a luxury jet was part of the mole hunt.

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (G0vdT)

36 Due process rights? Even though those agents violated the constitutional rights of others? I guess I’m not understanding what a fireable offense must entail when working for the FBI!
Giving a pass to the alphabet intelligence community solves misconduct, how? Does everyone who isn’t a republican get to pick and choose which laws to follow? If the democrats win the house and senate, there is no America. They’ll get the progressive utopia they want and deserve.
I’m glad that I’m on the back nine of life!

Posted by: Unkaren at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (duOzU)

37 Things seem to be starting to come out. Maybe these were teed up to start as a trickle and increase to a flood starting with SOTU and through to the mid-term election. I can hope anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)
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That's an interesting point...Didn't a whole lot of stuff start happening immediately after President Trump's initial address last year?

(It was technically not a SOTU, but close enough for government work...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (ESVrU)

38 Who is this Haman Egger fellow?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (JRP2U)

39 Can't SOME of these people face criminal charges?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (AlhUl)

40 "We should seize all of your retirement money."

And hound them until they are lowered into the ground. I don't want them working even as a mall cop.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 26, 2026 04:26 PM (N39Ws)

41 They are not subject to the law.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:26 PM (c27kw)

42 38 Who is this Haman Egger fellow?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (JRP2U)

Haman? Yeah that guy. Worked for a Persian King who had a Jewish girlfriend. He was asshoe.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (pDt9x)

43 So, the fibbies have a union. That’s good to know

Posted by: Accomac at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (/Chlc)

44 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

--

Nice to see that Sec. Noem has never read the language that pops up on every government device prior to login, notifying you that you have no presumed right to privacy on this device.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (qAuhB)

45 38 Who is this Haman Egger fellow?
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 26, 2026 04:25 PM (JRP2U)

Austrian bodybuilder, went on to make movies.

Posted by: I'll be back at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (TbWk/)

46 36 Due process rights?
_____

Violate the law, get found out, get fired. Sounds like sufficient due process. Now if we were to move to gibbeting, then I may concede that additional due process is required, which would include a chance to confess to everything and humbly ask for mercy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:28 PM (Dv3i1)

47 I have completely lost faith in all things official and political. I look forward to the next art thread.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:28 PM (ZxPkt)

48 The Tarpian Rock is thirsty.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:29 PM (c27kw)

49 47 I have completely lost faith in all things official and political. I look forward to the next art thread.
Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:28 PM (ZxPkt)

Would you settle for afternoon Pet Cafe Thread?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:29 PM (pDt9x)

50 32 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -
___

agita

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (Dv3i1)

51 43 So, the fibbies have a union. That’s good to know
Posted by: Accomac at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM (/Chlc) on the back nine of life!
Posted by: Unkaren at February 26, 2026 04:24 PM (duOzU)

This is one of the reasons why bad cops are so hard to get rid of. Even when they've done something so unbelievably egregious that the police chief fires them outright instead of defending them to the death, the police union sweeps in and forces arbitration to get them reinstated.

Posted by: Enshittification ain't just for software at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

52 Looking forward to Andy McCarthy saying the brave men and women of the FBI are super, duper patriots...

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (9mw3J)

53 "Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer"

They were just trying to be helpful by keeping good records.

Posted by: Ripley at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (GUOwU)

54 Now fortified with giraffes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (c27kw)

55 The Horde is - restive.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:31 PM (pDt9x)

56 Andy McCarthy reminds me of Mortimer Snerd.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:31 PM (ehY6c)

57 This shit has convinced millions of AWFLs that Trump is Putin's stooge and Russia fixed the 2016 election and they will NEVER be convinced otherwise

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 26, 2026 04:31 PM (REq0p)

58 Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2026 04:32 PM (PYyV9)

59 Yes, still like cafe thread with the funny animal videos.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:32 PM (ZxPkt)

60 Well one glimmer of hope is that the AWFL base is not a reproductive powerhouse.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:33 PM (pDt9x)

61 I saw Hammond Eggar open for Trans Siberian Orchestra at Live Aid

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2026 04:33 PM (PYyV9)

62 Public hangings would likely deter some agents from future FAFO activities.

Low cost, high return. 👍

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (jtM2q)

63 58 Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?
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They likely worked from this to determine where the others are and who is their sugar daddy. Fibbies don't do this shit without a golden parachute promise.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (pZ64F)

64 Russia Russia Russia!

It was the weirdest thing, because it was turned on like a light switch. Couldn’t believe it. After 95 years of leftists being in bed with the Soviets, albeit well meaning perhaps in some instances, all of a sudden Russians were the bad guys, and the Donald in their employ. Beware The Red Menace!

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (1meqy)

65 Headline (The Hill IMPORTANT DATE TIMELINE 02/09/25)

"Noem defends Musk’s access to personal data"

Just more than a year ago, Noem had to defend Musk's access to DHS sensitive information.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Excerpt:

"“But this, this audit needs to happen to make sure that we are going through a process that adds integrity back into these programs and people’s personal information has been out there in these case works that have been closed for a long time, that people are getting responses now that they haven’t had before,” she added."

Posted by: mrp at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

66 44 Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer

--

Nice to see that Sec. Noem has never read the language that pops up on every government device prior to login, notifying you that you have no presumed right to privacy on this device.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ

True. 'Spyware' is something else though. Now, who put it on, who authorized it, and what was it used for. That message that appears on every Government device isn't the same as 'spyware'. The FedGov watching everything going in and out on there machines isn't 'spyware'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (sAmhv)

67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (ZxPkt)

68
44

Nice to see that Sec. Noem has never read the language that pops up on every government device prior to login, notifying you that you have no presumed right to privacy on this device.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 26, 2026 04:27 PM

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"No presumed right to privacy" is not the same as underlings being allowed to plant unauthorized spyware on the boss's phone.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 04:36 PM (PbePe)

69 As usual, the question behind all this seems to be,

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:36 PM (ESVrU)

70 Does everyone who isn’t a republican get to pick and choose which laws to follow?

There is a D get out of jail card for people high in the party or high level contributors until the crime bosses decide you are no longer useful to the party.

See Bill Cosby, he lent his name to a book decrying the uneducation of black youth "Come on People" I believe was the title; then he could be prosecuted.

Harvey Weinstein, I don't think prosecuted, but they turned on their donor when it suited them.

Eric Adams. I don't think he actually did anything wrong but he crossed the party by decrying the illegals as Mayor of NYC and they found something to charge him with.

Might be part of why Demonrats are so unhappy, they can get away wtih a lot, but the party might decide to throw them under the bus at any time.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 04:36 PM (Sokdp)

71 67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.
Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:35 PM (ZxPkt)

I read “ pornography” instead of “ photography” on initial glance. Oops, oopsie. Apologies I suppose.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (pDt9x)

72 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:23 PM (pDt9x)

Sternly worded letters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (fJci/)

73 28 A Wall of Shame in the lobby might be a start.
Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 04:22 PM (FhXTo)

Walk of Shame …

Posted by: Head Sparrow at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (pY+ea)

74 There's no such thing as "due process" for employment termination.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 26, 2026 04:37 PM (5slMQ)

75 Remember:
The same people that put out a very serious allegation that Trump hired whores to piss on the bed Obama slept in in Moscow ....

Somehow, for some reason, kept all the proof of Trump and Epstein secret.
For over 10 years.
While in their absolute sole custody and control.

"Whores pissing on beds?"
That they will release.
And repeat endlessly.

"Trump cavorting with pedos?"
Nope. Best keep that a secret.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (HXT0k)

76 I am glad for a quantum of solace ...

Posted by: Adriane the Lens Cap Covered Camera Photography Critic . . . at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

77 67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.

Also a great time to start gardening. Growing season approaches. I started a couple of seed trays last evening.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (DgMqy)

78 Looking forward to Andy McCarthy saying the brave men and women of the FBI are super, duper patriots...

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 26, 2026 04:30 PM (9mw3J)

They must have video of him fellating a goat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (noKdt)

79 'Dismissed'?! Holy cow, we're as ruthless as Nazi Germany.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (3s43i)

80 They must have video of him fellating a goat.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2026 04:38 PM (noKdt)

Goat(s).

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (9Ovst)

81 "FBI fires 10 involved in Jack Smith's classified docs probe of Trump"

Guaranteed that either MSPB or a federal judge will rule their firing unconstitutional and make them be rehired with back pay and promotions.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (0N4FZ)

82 Burn it all down. Spring is coming and new life will take root and renew the natural order.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (gVUi7)

83 And it's probably time to start working on my bucket list.

Posted by: Don Black at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (ZxPkt)

84 If you read up on the FBI Agent's Association it is basically a union organization for FBI agents and like most unions, defends even the most corrupt of their lot.

Yes, what Ace said, Fuck them.

Posted by: Cheri at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (oiNtH)

85 "Related: It's the Russiagate Plot's ten year anniversary."

I can kind of understand people thinking that nothing will happen.

Posted by: fd - "No" is a complete sentence at February 26, 2026 04:39 PM (vFG9F)

86 "Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money."

At this point we should harvest their organs. Recidivism rate 0.0. Otherwise they'll be back under the next donk that steals the election.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 26, 2026 04:40 PM (DWTpY)

87 Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

The mill of the god grinds lowly ???

Posted by: Adriane the Lens Cap Covered Camera Photography Critic . . . at February 26, 2026 04:40 PM (3ZUWJ)

88 Guaranteed that either MSPB or a federal judge will rule their firing unconstitutional and make them be rehired with back pay and promotions.
____

FBI needs a base in Antarctica for the re-hired staff.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM (Dv3i1)

89 Plot twist.

>>
@MarcACaputo
·
24m
>>The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

>>I understand she believes him & that the Biden-era FBI may have lied about it

>>Here’s what the lawyer told me: “If I ever pulled a stunt like that I wouldn’t – and shouldn’t – have a license to practice law. I’m as shocked as Susie.”

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM (viF8m)

90 Am I missing something?
It looks like they are beginning to clean house. Hope so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (Sh6IX)

91 We should seize all of your retirement money.

“I’ll give you something to cry about!”

These guys need a serious spanking. And then have their allowance taken away.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (1NuH7)

92 Judicial action will force the fbi gropers rehiring; so relocate their desks to the storage basement, bare lightbulb, one out of order phone. Let them do inventory of gov furniture. Every day.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)

93 Under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) an incumbent President can grant "special access" to records for executive branch purposes, even if the former President claims executive privilege. In this case, President Biden, through the White House Counsel's Office, affirmed the DOJ's request, allowing NARA to provide the FBI access to the records.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), as the legal owner of presidential records, had facilitated the Department of Justice's (DOJ) access to the documents as part of a criminal investigation into potential violations of federal law.

Each and everyone at NARA involved, should have been thoroughly investigated and likely dismissed with appropriate charges. IIRC, all or most retired right around the raids on Mar-A-Lago.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 04:43 PM (NFX2v)

94 Related by Ed Morrissey
Today's Deep Question: Why Did Biden-Era DoJ Spy on Wiles' Call With Attorney?

https://is.gd/Q8QGrP

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 04:43 PM (8mulE)

95 "I’m as shocked as Susie."

Hmmm... Maybe we'll find out who's lying here. But I doubt it. Dude's a lawyer. His mouth moved.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (DgMqy)

96
89 Plot twist.

>>
@MarcACaputo
·
24m
>>The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM

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If that's true, it doesn't mean that the FBI didn't tap the phone. It means they lied about having consent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (PbePe)

97 You WANT heads on pikes.
You would settle for long prison terms.
You will get- - -
Posted by: tubal

A shake weight

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (GgstE)

98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
===

Straight up espionage

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

99 For all of those who have been angry about lack of indictments and movement against the Deep State, these people as well as the crap done to spy on Noem, is the crap the Trump and reformers are facing. Rearguard actions all the way

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (HYqoK)

100 24m
>>The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:41 PM

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If that's true, it doesn't mean that the FBI didn't tap the phone. It means they lied about having consent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2026 04:44 PM (PbePe)
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Yep.

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:46 PM (G0vdT)

101 hahaha

"DHS tells @realDailyWire that ICE arrested Elmina Aghayeva, an illegal alien from Azerbaijan, at Columbia University after her student visa was terminated in 2016 under the Obama administration for failing to attend classes.

The officers were let into her apartment by the building manager and her roommate, DHS said.

Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 26, 2026 04:46 PM (V6W16)

102 SHOCKING: Suzie Wiles lawyer complicit with the FBI.

The breadth and depth of the administrative state's desire to eliminate Trump's progress is frightening.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:46 PM (Sh6IX)

103 98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
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Straight up espionage
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

Seems it really is, but unfortunately not being treated as such. Why is a question I do not have an answer for.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)

104 7 >>>Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Seize their phone records and see who put them up to it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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And put them all in jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (Sh6IX)

105 Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"
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Azerbaijan was missing her, so technically true.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)

106 Judicial action will force the fbi gropers rehiring; so relocate their desks to the storage basement, bare lightbulb, one out of order phone. Let them do inventory of gov furniture. Every day.
Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)
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And take away their red Swingline staplers!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)

107 The lawyer representing Susie Wiles at the time of this incident categorically denies he allowed his client to be recorded by the FBI w/out her consent

Posted by: JackStraw
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He pretty much has to otherwise he is cooked before the Bar Association and perhaps being impoverished by a lawsuit from Wiles. If he survived with his law license intact, it would still mean no other serious client would want to work with the guy nor that firm ever again.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (E4rtv)

108 Straight up espionage
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

Seems it really is, but unfortunately not being treated as such. Why is a question I do not have an answer for.
Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)
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We'll see how serious based on whether noem/Patel fire people and/or press charges

Posted by: WisRich at February 26, 2026 04:49 PM (G0vdT)

109 >>Good I guess, but why did it take them a year to get to this?

Well for one thing the files were hidden, even from FBI employees, under a classification called Prohibited. It was done for express purpose of keeping this stuff from ever being uncovered.

But as I've been saying since last fall a grand jury was seated in Ft. Pierce Florida in January to start hearing evidence of a decade long conspiracy against Trump to deprive him of his rights. It potentially includes ever plot starting with spying on Trumps campaign back in early 2016 to Russia, to Ukraine, the Mar A Lago raid to everything in between. And the judge overseeing the GJ is Aileen Cannon, same judge who has been smacking Jack Smith around since she shutdown his illegal investigation of Trump last fall.

This week she ruled the report he developed from the investigation be permanently sealed because it never should have happened. Now this. Seems awful coincidental that some of this stuff is surfacing just as the GJ is hearing evidence.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:49 PM (viF8m)

110 uck you. We should seize all of your retirement money.

Seize their phone records and see who put them up to it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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And put them all in jail.

You misspelled "firing squad".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

111 Due process rights?

Posted by: steevy at February 26, 2026 04:50 PM (YwEeS)

112 A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents..."

That's nice. Now, please tell us more about your relationship with these traitorous co-conspirators. Be thorough and speak clearly into the mic.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 26, 2026 04:50 PM (625EN)

113 If the lawyer did consent, it was undoubtedly because the FBI threatened him with some kind of prosecution. Probably over some unrelated manner.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (8mulE)

114 103 98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
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Straight up espionage
Posted by: It
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It's time to round them up and put them in jail.

By what law can we legally do this?

The J6 law authorizes their indeterminate detention until their crimes are adjudicated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (Sh6IX)

115 Seems it really is, but unfortunately not being treated as such. Why is a question I do not have an answer for.
Posted by: tubal
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My guess is some ostensible claim about records preservation or some other bullshit reason like computer security.

Assume all work computers are compromised always and the same goes for work phones.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (E4rtv)

116 >>He pretty much has to otherwise he is cooked before the Bar Association and perhaps being impoverished by a lawsuit from Wiles. If he survived with his law license intact, it would still mean no other serious client would want to work with the guy nor that firm ever again.

Yep. But it should be fairly easy to prove one way or the other. I gotta believe a lawyer of that caliber wouldn't make a handshake deal on something like this with the FBI. There should be a paper trail.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (viF8m)

117 Since we are talking FBI incompetence and chicanery, I wonder if we will ever get the straight story on the shootings at that concert in Las Vegas.

(No I don't)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (cYBz/)

118 The evil and corruption in America is discouraging but God the Father spared President Trump at Butler to serve God's purpose. Have faith in His supremacy. God's never been defeated.

Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:52 PM (ehY6c)

119
Firings are an invitation to litigation in front of anti-Trump courts.

Reassign them to Injun reservations in the Black Hills, Flint, Michigan or resident FBI agents at McMurdo, to take immediate effect. They still have jobs, but there's nothing saying that they deserve to work in DC as opposed to other areas of the country which need competent FBI agents.

If they voluntarily quit, that's on them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (y9nCu)

120 THIS LEGISLATURE SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE OIL AND
GAS PRODUCERS AND REFINERIES THAT MESSAGE WAS AND HAS BEEN YOU DON'T HAVE A FUTURE HERE.

THE MARKETS RESPONDED. CAPITAL LEFT. REINVESTMENT SLOWED. AND NOW WE'RE SEEING REFINERIES HAVE CLOSED DOWN IN 1982 THERE WERE 40 REFINERIES IN CALIFORNIA TODAY WE HAVE SEARCHING MEANWHILE DEMAND IS UP, CALIFORNIANS ARE PAYING ABOUT 50% MORE AT THE PUMP THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.

WE PRODUCE ROUGHLY 20% OF THE CRUDE OIL THAT WE CONSUME. AND MORE THAN 65% OF THAT COMES FROM FOREIGN SOURCES. WE ARE ONE MORE REFINERY CLOSURE, ONE MORE PIPELINE FAILURE AND WE'LL BE STARING AT CATASTROPHIC INSTABILITY.

Posted by: SMOD at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (RHGPo)

121 117 Since we are talking FBI incompetence and chicanery, I wonder if we will ever get the straight story on the shootings at that concert in Las Vegas.

(No I don't)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (cYBz/)

That unpleasantness has been memory holed nearly completely, by nearly everyone.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (pDt9x)

122 "DHS tells @realDailyWire that ICE arrested Elmina Aghayeva, an illegal alien from Azerbaijan, at Columbia University after her student visa was terminated in 2016 under the Obama administration for failing to attend classes.

The officers were let into her apartment by the building manager and her roommate, DHS said.

Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"

Visa terminated in 2016 for not attending class but she was still in a campus apartment 10 years later? Yank federal funding for Columbia, charge someone there for harboring an illegal.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (Sokdp)

123 He pretty much has to otherwise he is cooked before the Bar Association and perhaps being impoverished by a lawsuit from Wiles. If he survived with his law license intact, it would still mean no other serious client would want to work with the guy nor that firm ever again.
Posted by: whig
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I'd like to believe it, but then there's Kevin Clinesmith.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (XvL8K)

124 106 Judicial action will force the fbi gropers rehiring; so relocate their desks to the storage basement, bare lightbulb, one out of order phone. Let them do inventory of gov furniture. Every day.
Posted by: kingsman at February 26, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)
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And take away their red Swingline staplers!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)

Man, you watched the opening scenes of the Night Agent...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:54 PM (tOcjL)

125 117.

Curious myself. Day 1 the news said the loony recorded videos all through the Mandalay rampage and before.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 04:54 PM (WcDsy)

126 67 Going to need to edit my X feed. No more news. Just football, funny animal videos, and photography from around the world. And space stuff.
Posted by: Don Black
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Here's a hankie, pushes soft cotton kerchief through usb port to Don

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:54 PM (Sh6IX)

127 It was the weirdest thing, because it was turned on like a light switch. Couldn’t believe it. After 95 years of leftists being in bed with the Soviets, albeit well meaning perhaps in some instances, all of a sudden Russians were the bad guys, and the Donald in their employ. Beware The Red Menace!
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (1meqy)

Putin made the unforgivable error of telling his Oligarchs they couldn't steal things and sell them to the West for pennies.

Never tell your abuser "no" if you have no support

Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2026 04:55 PM (rbvCR)

128 Man, you watched the opening scenes of the Night Agent...

S3 is apparently not doing the gangbuster numbers of the first season, but I'm not sure why. I think it's very well done.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

129 I bet I can point our a few families in Texas and Idaho who don't care one bit what the FBI Agent Assholeciation thinks.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 04:56 PM (WcDsy)

130 Prosecutions?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:12 PM (c27kw)

I suppose they could put the matter before a grand jury in DC. You know, the ones who refuse to indict leftists for anything.

Feel better now?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2026 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

131 114 103 98 WTF

Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer
===
Straight up espionage
Posted by: It
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It's time to round them up and put them in jail.

By what law can we legally do this?

The J6 law authorizes their indeterminate detention until their crimes are adjudicated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 04:51 PM (Sh6IX)

If the spyware was directly installed, yes, espionage charges. But it's probably run of the mill "oops we missed that this app comes with this spylike program - our bad"...or at least, that will be the claim.

Seems like DHS has some techies to fire...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:57 PM (tOcjL)

132 Reassign them to Injun reservations in the Black Hills, Flint, Michigan or resident FBI agents at McMurdo, to take immediate effect. They still have jobs, but there's nothing saying that they deserve to work in DC as opposed to other areas of the country which need competent FBI agents.

If they voluntarily quit, that's on them.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (y9nCu)
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Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

133 The Tarpian Rock is thirsty.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 04:29 PM (c27kw)

Hey, what about me? When's it my turn again??

Posted by: The Gladius, quite possibly the weapon with the highest body count in history at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (i711p)

134 128 Man, you watched the opening scenes of the Night Agent...

S3 is apparently not doing the gangbuster numbers of the first season, but I'm not sure why. I think it's very well done.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2026 04:55 PM (Riz8t)

B/c people, like me, watched the Olympics and are catching up on other streaming, and have planned to watch it later this spring. I have heard it's good from others, and glad you think it is, too...may move up my watchlist!

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (tOcjL)

135 111 Due process rights?
Posted by: steevy

Scotus in a 1978 case with far cruder technology allowed access to what is called toll records of incoming and outgoing calls for billing purposes. Goes to the third party doctrine where you can assert your own privacy but if you involve others, they can willfully disclose information about you upon being presented with an administrative subpoena. That has expanded to an panopticon where you can literally sit at a computer at LEO HQ and request subpoenas of existing banking, telephone, texts, emails, and billing information from vendors from a wide variety of sources with the person never even knows in a lot of cases that their records have been rifled through. Add in separate commercial databases of residences, names, aliases, credit history, cars, location data via cell phone towers, affinity programs, FLOC cameras, etc.

An analyst can rapidly create a dossier on anyone they please between coming in and the first coffee break.

Privacy is dead unless you want to live unplugged and as a hermit in the woods buying and selling nothing. Even there, open fields would allow surveillance by game wardens and their planted cameras/drones

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (E4rtv)

136 I really look askance at anyone using "swiftboating" as a term. That was made derogatory by the left truing to discredit very legit attacks on Kerry.

Fun rabbit hole: Kerry most likely got in deep shit and UCMJ'ed and got his record rehabilitated by Carter.

Posted by: heya at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (+RkG8)

137 131

If the spyware was directly installed, yes, espionage charges. But it's probably run of the mill "oops we missed that this app comes with this spylike program - our bad"...or at least, that will be the claim.

Seems like DHS has some techies to fire...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 04:57 PM (tOcjL)

If Noem et al roll for that weak tea blowoff that’s a tell that it’s all failure stuff that had best been left unspoken.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

138 This caught my eye earlier:
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DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
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7h
I already generated a dossier on Spanberger, but the most interesting part of it is that she is part of a cohort of 50+ military-intelligence veterans that have been recruited to run as Democratic candidates starting in 2018.
@SomeBitchIIKnow
first hypothesized this, but my new dossier pipeline independently captured them.

A Democrat retires. A CIA member takes over.

Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
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Apologies if this has already been pointed out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (jtM2q)

139 "Sec. Kristi Noem just shockingly announced that Elon Musk helped her uncover SPYWARE installed by DHS STAFFERS onto her phone and computer"
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I think we now know how that Atlantic reporter was added to Hegseth's Signal chat.

It wasn't an accident.

Someone stole log-in credentials and logged in as one of the member of the chat and added him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (HXT0k)

140 136.

Only Jenjiss Khan knows for sure.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:00 PM (WcDsy)

141 Ace: "Fuck you. We should seize all of your retirement money."

Amen. They're fortunate that the entire agency wasn't eliminated. A not insignificant proportion of leadership should be in prison for the way they massaged illegality into legal and for selective, unjustifiable persecution.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:00 PM (gLikB)

142 I'd like to believe it, but then there's Kevin Clinesmith.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He did it for the FBI and thus qualified immunity. In his case, it was not the spying but the lying to a court for a surveillance warrant that did him in.

A private law firm lawyer has a shitload to lose if it gets out he is consenting to law enforcement sitting in on calls with clients---no future clients, no money going forward. And that is if he kept his law license and was not sued into oblivion.

Plus, not all jurisdictions are as lawless as Democrat run DC.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:01 PM (E4rtv)

143 It wasn't an Swiftboat operation. Swiftboat allegations were true.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 26, 2026 05:01 PM (cntUY)

144 Ace been the Best Ace for months now.

Top Notch work for about a year running, Chief.

Must be the creatine.

Pardon me. I gotta go clean my nose now.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:02 PM (WcDsy)

145 Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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I saw that earlier on X and you did well to point this out.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:02 PM (E4rtv)

146 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (c27kw)

147 Not seeing the problem here

@Breaking911 16m
Papa John's plans to close 300 of its restaurants by the end of 2027 as it moves to cut costs. -CBS

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (diia5)

148 Remember the CIA ads that ran during the Biden years -- trying to lure all those rainbow-flag-waving malcontents into the fold? The ONE THING you need to be as an intelligence officer is coolly objective. Literally the opposite of what they were trying to draw from the swamp under Biden.

Posted by: red speck at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (Ve/HL)

149 146 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (c27kw)

The old saying - plants are what my food eats.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 05:04 PM (pDt9x)

150 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss

...Said the Fungi from Yuggoth

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:04 PM (diia5)

151 You know what would really cut costs? Closing all of them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:04 PM (c27kw)

152 Not seeing the problem here

@Breaking911 16m
Papa John's plans to close 300 of its restaurants by the end of 2027 as it moves to cut costs. -CBS
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:03 PM (diia5)
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Well, we can say goodbye to "better ingredients, better pizza."

(I don't care much for Papa John's. I think their standard crust tastes like cardboard.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (ESVrU)

153 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)

154 A spokesperson for the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that it "condemns today's unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which -- like other firings by Director Patel -- violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country."
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This fuckwad can suck the sweatiest area of my nutsack after a vigorous gym session and a five-mile run in the Texas summer heat, then eat the biggest pile of shit I can find, and wash it down with jizz.

Fuck you.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (3BwY8)

155 153.

This will only encourage that one guy's Dachshund from yesterday.

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:06 PM (WcDsy)

156 Fire the FBI agents association.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:06 PM (c27kw)

157 Piper: "Who knew Elon Musk would go from being an interesting figure to being an amazingly important figure."

I knew the instant he bought and reigned in Twitter. He still deserves a Medal of Freedom for that act alone. It was one of the most consequential acts preserving the country at the time (and perhaps still) given the lockstep marching of pretty much all of social media and Silicon Valley titans. I hope that "investment" by Musk is never memory-holed. The man is a patriot.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2026 05:06 PM (gLikB)

158 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.
Posted by: Piper

For no obvious reason, I am strangely aroused by this.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (cYBz/)

159
Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

The "Slow Horses" gambit.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (y9nCu)

160 Useless statement but no government agency should have a union.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (+nEug)

161
Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Crisco Kid
Was a friend of mine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (Cqx++)

162 Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
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Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026

While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

163 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)
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Is it a sure-fired cure for knee fungus?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (ESVrU)

164 Closing Papa Johns? Nein! Nein! Nein!

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (c27kw)

165 I’m sure Spamburger’s puppet masters are eagerly gobbling up disgruntled spooks of all types now. Our very own SPECTRE

Posted by: banana Dream at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (cO9Uq)

166 160 Useless statement but no government agency should have a union.
Posted by: Ben Had
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9th Circuit decision today allows the president to limit collective bargaining rights for agencies.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (E4rtv)

167 FBI Probes Effort To Impersonate Top Trump Advisor Susie Wiles | 10 News First

3,111 views May 30, 2025
She’s one of the most important people within Donald Trump’s inner circle, but now the White House says someone is trying to impersonate White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
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Several months ago.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (NFX2v)

168 I noted this AM that it's also dripping out that the J6 Committee was coordinating with the Biden WH, Fanni and Jack Smith.

They were issuing subpoenas for witnesses and evidence that the others couldn't legally obtain.

Then passing that along.

I'll bet Marc Elias is hip-deep as the hub for laundering communications among all them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (HXT0k)

169 Good ridden
Bet they kept spying and spreading to Democrats Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:09 PM (Ia/+0)

170 162 Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
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Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026

While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

That's what I said on Tuesday...she's a blank wall, and Dems love to run them...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 05:09 PM (tOcjL)

171 Plants are your friends.

...with benefits!

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at February 26, 2026 05:09 PM (S/IIZ)

172 Slow Horses may be back in the fall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (c27kw)

173 Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

The Japanese put managers they want gone in an empty office with just a desk with nothing to do.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (cntUY)

174 While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive

Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

175
She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive
Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

Off sock/

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

176 SAT race to the bottom.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (YlWIZ)

177 Heh, leave it to the Japanese to make epic Trump animes:

"BREAKING: President Trump’s State of the Union address has been turned into an anime-style animation and is going viral"

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2027003864625672253

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (9Ovst)

178 Regarding 'spyware'. All depends on if it's work computer/phone or personal. Personal, there's a problem. Work-issue, for us mere peons at least it's... not nice, but not unusual for things like keyloggers to be installed and other such 'spy on everyone in the agency' stuff. If it's "only the political appointees", or they were insisting that the political appointees "just put this totally not suspicious software on your personal computer/phone so we can get you up and running faster", we're back to having a problem.

Posted by: RandomDave at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (aJQbY)

179 Due process rights? Even though those agents violated the constitutional rights of others? I guess I’m not understanding what a fireable offense must entail when working for the FBI!

Very simple. They want their "due process" in Babylon DC where it is NEVER a crime to attack Republicans. What would normally be insubordination, sedition or even treason is perfectly acceptable before a DC judge and jury.

I would bet good money that if a Fed assassinated any Republican, that a DC jury would nullify the crime.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (rgGn5)

180 Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.
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Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 04:59 PM (jtM2q)

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Not trying to dismiss it, but this has been obvious. Elements in the Democrat party have figured out that the purple-hair noserings are a loser on a national basis, so they're trying to co-opt a section that has always been a strong point for the GOP, which is former military and intel folks.

Too bad that all the former mil and intel folks that are Democrats are just as fucking weird as the rest of the Democrats. The strategy will fool some people for a while though.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (3BwY8)

181 >>>Making employees miserable enough to quit is a time-honored tradition among employers who don't want to deal with potential legal hassles.

Believe me, I know.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

>Simply attrition. Put 12 men in an office meant for 2 and let them smell each others' farts for several months. The vermin will take over and you'll have a 3rd world shithole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (gVUi7)

182 174 While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive
Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

Stasi. That’s the vibe I get from her.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (pDt9x)

183 She could replace one of our fuckwit Senators in four years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (c27kw)

184 174 While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:08 PM (pZEOD)

She's making quite the name for herself in VA.. And it's not positive
Posted by: The Clintons at February 26, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

She's just doing a disappearing act for most things...everything uber liberal is quiet...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (tOcjL)

185 (I don't care much for Papa John's. I think their standard crust tastes like cardboard.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Only remember buying it once. It had like 3 slices of pepp on the whole medium pie. Chintzi.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (diia5)

186 Release the SAT and ACT scores. Neither a tax, nor a HIPAA violation.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 26, 2026 05:12 PM (YlWIZ)

187 Albinogale Skankberger looks like the unloved abandoned bloodless child of Paul Reubens and Nosferatu.

All wrapped up in a snug bag of CIA

Posted by: sifty boones at February 26, 2026 05:12 PM (WcDsy)

188
Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.
Posted by: Piper

For no obvious reason, I am strangely aroused by this.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2026 05:07 PM (cYBz/)

Woof Woof!

Posted by: Toby the Beagle at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (y9nCu)

189 What was that all you can eat shitty pizza place?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)

190 f' Willowed again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (diia5)

191 I would bet good money that if a Fed assassinated any Republican, that a DC jury would nullify the crime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 05:11 PM (rgGn5)
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Wouldn't even make it to trial.

Posted by: ballistic at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (3BwY8)

192 And now I realize the real reason the J6 Committee password-protected and deleted the entire Committee file:

It's not what they collected.

It's who they shared it with.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (HXT0k)

193 Cici's?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)

194 Meanwhile Jesse Jackson's funeral has finally interrupted McCains.

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (FhXTo)

195 Nood

Posted by: Emmie at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (FMtrg)

196 189 What was that all you can eat shitty pizza place?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)

I think that's Cici's pizza.

Apparently if you go there you can get unlimited pizza and a show depending on the Cici's location.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (9Ovst)

197 What was that all you can eat shitty pizza place?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2026 05:13 PM (c27kw)
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Pizza Inn?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (ESVrU)

198 Yep. But it should be fairly easy to prove one way or the other. I gotta believe a lawyer of that caliber wouldn't make a handshake deal on something like this with the FBI. There should be a paper trail.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Depends on what his practice area was. A criminal attorney certainly would do that. A lot of other attorneys on issues like real estate, investments, elder care etc. might not. Law firms have their own cozy little networks of associated people and often lawyers often do quid pro quo trades off the books on a surprising number of areas.

Reason why you should be careful with lawyers in general and only deal with well established ones or ironically family associates if the matter and privacy is crucial.

Posted by: whig at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)

199 Wikipedia - John Hampton "Papa John" Schnatter is an American entrepreneur who founded the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain in 1984. Schnatter started the business in the back of his father's tavern after selling his car and using the proceeds to purchase used restaurant equipment. As of 2017, his net worth was more than $1 billion.

Schnatter stepped down as CEO on January 1, 2018, after controversy around his comments that the National Football League (NFL), who had a business affiliation with Papa John's, had not done enough to stop national anthem protests by NFL players, and that the protests had hurt his business. Before he stepped down, his comments had resulted in the NFL cancelling its association with Papa John's.

After stepping down as CEO, Schnatter remained chairman of the board of directors until July 2018, when it was revealed that he had used a racial slur during an internal sensitivity training May 2018 conference call, claiming without evidence that Colonel Sanders had used the same word without backlash. Schnatter resigned when the comment became public, but has since maintained that the board conspired against him and unfairly forced him out of his position.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

200 194 Meanwhile Jesse Jackson's funeral has finally interrupted McCains.
Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2026 05:14 PM (FhXTo)

I had forgotten that he died. Is that racist?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2026 05:15 PM (pDt9x)

201 Meanwhile, the school asserts that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”"
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I don't care if they executed a warrantless search, battered her as part of the arrest, and tossed her belongings into the street. She wasn't supposed to be here, period. Had she not been here, none of whatever took place would have taken place.

Posted by: Crusader at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (TN0g+)

202 162. While Kamala ponders a run, and Newsom practices his best angle, Spanburger is who they are going to run.
Posted by: Piper

Interesting. But AOC and several others would be leading a DEI riot at the DNC, so make her VP.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2026 05:16 PM (NFX2v)

203 Never ate Papa Johns, used to see their commercials, they had some cute ones. But I buy a lot of store brands cuz I figure I don't need to pay for the billion dollar ad campaigns. Sounds like Papa Johns was similar, spend more on advertising than pizza ingredients.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 05:17 PM (Sokdp)

204 Nood already?

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (Ia/+0)

205 Well, we can say goodbye to "better ingredients, better pizza."

Better than what? Leprino Foods is one company that pretty much makes all cheese for every pizza chain, including the frozen pizza variety. 85% of all pizza uses their cheese - including Papa Johns.

That is why they all taste the same.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 26, 2026 05:18 PM (nCgQz)

206 Plants are your friends. You must not eat them.
Posted by: Boss Moss
......

I like bugs too. And I don't eat them either.

Posted by: wth at February 26, 2026 05:20 PM (UjdFS)

207 Here's some more "news"
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BREAKING:
BlackRock is in major trouble 👇

Today, a seismic shift has happened in the antitrust case brought against the ESG asset manager cartel of
BlackRock, StateStreet, and Vanguard_Group.

Vanguard_Group is admitting defeat, agreeing to settle the lawsuit brought by a coalition of State Attorneys General, led by KenPaxtonTX.

As part of the settlement they will pay $30 million in fines, turn over all documents related to their coordinated ESG activism, and end all ESG activism for years to come.

This is a massive win. The reckoning is here.
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FWIW $30M for this group is nothing. The other stuff?
YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2026 05:21 PM (jtM2q)

208 The legal system is the very mechanism of the ratchet that drives the nation to doom and the left.

There is structural play built into the system, a requirement of anything human and fallible, that is always fully engaged and used to great advantage in one direction, but fully resisted in the other. And that is regardless of who is in charge.

Everyone knows how the ratchet works and cooperates with its operation. Because one side sees it as an obvious and direct route to power and the other rightly fears a world without legal mechanisms. It’s all understandable.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 26, 2026 05:22 PM (cO9Uq)

209 153 Thought y’all might want to know my ad is someone putting peanut butter on their knees. Someone, somewhere came up with this concept to entice people to click on it.

Posted by: Piper at February 26, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)

Reminds me of that Jack Nicholson movie where he tells the waitress to put the chicken between her knees.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 26, 2026 05:32 PM (8mulE)

210 Visa terminated in 2016 for not attending class but she was still in a campus apartment 10 years later? Yank federal funding for Columbia, charge someone there for harboring an illegal.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2026 04:53 PM (Sokdp)

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Probably a couple hundred thousand in student loans.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2026 05:41 PM (Vh9CX)

211 retweet by DataRepublican

The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party

https://tinyurl.com/4b6tzd8n

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 26, 2026 05:54 PM (Sh6IX)

212 Jesus Christ, you fucking morons, you are not owed any "due process" for getting fired.

ALL employment in the US is entirely at the will of the employer and you can be fired FOR ANY REASON AT ANY TIME

Yes, that includes Democrat boot licking FBI agents

Posted by: deadrody at February 26, 2026 05:54 PM (vgB0v)

213 Russia Russia Russia!

It was the weirdest thing, because it was turned on like a light switch. Couldn’t believe it. After 95 years of leftists being in bed with the Soviets, albeit well meaning perhaps in some instances, all of a sudden Russians were the bad guys, and the Donald in their employ. Beware The Red Menace!
Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2026 04:34 PM (1meqy)

That flipped when the Russia turned out the Communists.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 26, 2026 06:00 PM (8avO+)

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