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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon ✶❂🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Is Trump Trying to Provoke a Terrorist Attack?
Date: 03/04/26 7:11 PM
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In the final week of February 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel carried out a tightly targeted purge inside the Bureau.

Not a budget trim.
Not a retirement wave.
Not routine discipline.

A purge.

Over roughly 48 hours, at least a dozen FBI personnel were removed…several directly tied to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation.

But…buried beneath that headline…was the part that actually matters:

Among those pushed out were individuals connected to counterintelligence operations…specialists in handling classified material cases, foreign intelligence tradecraft, and threat analysis…including personnel linked to the Bureau’s Iran-focused counterespionage lane.

That is not interchangeable work.

That is not “HR reshuffling.”

That is the immune system of the country.

And…Patel knew exactly what he was cutting into.

He knew these weren’t paper shufflers. He knew they handled complex foreign intelligence threats. He knew they understood Iran’s asymmetric retaliation patterns… the cyber intrusions..the proxy networks…the recruitment efforts, the influence ops, the sleeper chatter.

He knew they were part of the machinery that detects retaliation before it becomes blood on pavement.

And…he fired them anyway.

Days later…February 28…the President launched Operation Epic Fury, a sweeping strike campaign against Iran that killed Ayatollah Khamenei and hit hundreds of strategic targets.

jackhopkinsnow.com - Patel fired the iran experts then
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