Criminal act’: FBI scrambles as leak reveals Kash Patel’s ‘long segments of leisure time’

Source: Raw Story

February 25, 2026 8:44AM ET

FBI Director Kash Patel’s taxpayer-funded trip to Italy that culminated with him chugging beer with the U.S. hockey team was revealed Wednesday to have included “long segments of personal and leisure time” after the leak of an internal schedule, a leak that the FBI condemned as a “criminal act,” The New York Times reported.

Patel has defended his trip to Italy during the Olympic games, with the FBI telling the Times that the trip was focused on “strengthening joint counterterrorism coordination” with America’s European allies.

After the Times obtained an internal schedule for Patel’s trip, however, it was revealed that long stretches of time were earmarked for things like “personal time” or “cultural activities.” In response to the leak, the FBI vowed to hold the leaker accountable.

“The leaking of his minute-by-minute schedule is a criminal act that jeopardizes security and will not be taken lightly,” said Ben Williamson, the assistant director for the FBI’s Public Affairs office, speaking with the Times.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2675331855/?utm_source=superhead

If he’s running around getting shit-faced at parties in a foreign country, the HE becomes a jeopardy to the nation’s “security”.

https://www.rawstory.com/judge-cannon-jack-smith

US ambassador to Paris banned from meeting French ministers after no-show

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump’s ambassador to Paris has been banned from meeting French government ministers after failing to show up for a meeting at the foreign ministry to explain US comments about the killing of a far-right activist.

Charles Kushner, whose son Jared is married to the US president’s oldest daughter, Ivanka, was summoned to the 7pm meeting by the foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, after the US embassy in Paris reposted state department comments about the case.

Diplomatic sources told French media that Kushner, a real-estate magnate with an estimated net worth of $3.2bn (£2.4bn), cited personal commitments as his reason for not attending and sent a senior official from the embassy in his place.

“In light of this apparent failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial mission, the minister has requested that he no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/23/us-ambassador-to-paris-banned-from-meeting-french-ministers-after-no-show

The Guardian does note Kushner’s extensive criminal record and 14 months in prison. A reason to not meet him may be something they’ve long wished for.

Tennessee Republicans propose bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion

Source: The Independent

Monday 23 February 2026 13:26 EST

Republicans in Tennessee have proposed a bill that would allow women who have had an abortion to be sentenced to death.

House Bill 570 allows for the death penalty to be imposed on women who have abortions, as well as charging women “involved in the homicide of her own unborn child” with homicide. It was co-sponsored by state Rep. Jody Barrett and Senator Mark Pody, who sponsored the bill, though it is not yet on the calendar for consideration, according to The Tennessean.

The legislation would allow prosecutors to charge women who obtain abortions with fetal homicide. This crime is punishable by life imprisonment, life without parole, and in some cases, the death penalty.

Tennessee has some of the strictest abortion laws in the U.S. since its “trigger ban” took place in 2022. The Human Life Protection Act prevents all abortions from fertilization and there are no exceptions for rape or incest.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-death-penalty-abortion-b2925988.html

The bearded, sloppy thug in the center, guzzling beer, is Kash Patel, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He took a private government jet to Milan, Italy, where we taxpayers also paid for his ticket to the Winter Olympics’ final men’s hockey game after which he celebrated with the US team.

Meanwhile, the government of Mexico killed the leader of the biggest drug cartel in Mexico, which was followed by widespread violence — looting, burning, all caused by cartel members.  US citizens in Mexico were trapped.

Hitler’s Greenland Obsession (the Atlantic)

After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

Greenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitler’s. According to stenographic notes from a lunchtime conversation dated May 21, 1942, Hitler recalled that hardly anyone “interested him more in his youth” than Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer who in 1888 led the first team to cross Greenland’s interior.

By April 1934, Hitler’s government had inventoried Greenland: 13,500 Eskimos, 3,500 Danes, and 8,000 sheep, as well as the world’s largest deposit of a strategic natural resource—cryolite, a mineral essential to American aluminum production. In 1938, Hermann Göring dispatched an expedition to Greenland, ostensibly to explore the island’s flora and fauna. However, Hitler’s true intent may have been not scientific, but economic—the expedition was headed by a mining engineer, Kurt Herdemerten, who had been a member of the ill-fated Wegener expedition. Hitler had inflicted countless economic wounds on his country over his five years as chancellor, and this foray into the Arctic was part of a broader effort to remedy one of them.

In a drive to move Germany toward economic self-sufficiency, Hitler had imposed draconian tariffs, refused to honor foreign-debt obligations, and sought to wean the nation off Norwegian whale-oil consumption. The problem was that Germany used whale oil not only for margarine, a staple of the German diet, but also in the production of nitroglycerin, a key component for the munitions industry.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/hitler-greenland/685984/

Whatever you do, avoid NORDVPN.  The app sucks.

I fell for their ads, subscribed, and after three days I deleted it, removed it from all my devices, and cancelled my account.

From the start I was not able to access some of my favorite sites.  Then, on Sunday night, Feb 23, the whole thing went to hell.

I could connect to my wifi but could not connect to the Internet.  I live in an apartment and at first I suspected a local area problem.  Checked with a couple of neighbors, neither of them had a problem.  I booted up one of my laptops that did not have NordVPN installed and it worked fine.

After restarting my computer a couple of times I was able to uninstall NordVPN and the system now works perfectly.

The New Republic reported this week that accusations made by a woman who “credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein,” appeared to have been removed from the Epstein files.

TNR reporter Edith Olmsted wrote that “A 21-page slideshow buried in the massive trove of Epstein-related documents included allegations that sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens,” Olmsted wrote. “When the woman bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. That same woman told the DOJ that Epstein had introduced her to Trump in 1984.”

The report went on to say that Sollenberger found the interview records “in a separate database of documents downloaded from the government’s public files on Epstein.”

The FBI recorded the first interview on August 9, 2019 — “the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell,” Olmsted wrote.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/woman-credibly-accused-trump-sex-220809049.html