Task force

He's joining us after a huge final day to discuss the glaring omission of the inquiry, the shock revelation by police on an Ivan Malak case...

You came across that information during Task Force Ed that he'd shot Neville Knight in the back.

And some heated disagreements with a former police commissioner.

I speculate that there was not sufficient evidence, evidence of the capital E, what we're lacking here.

I think he regrets that.

I think that it was incredibly counterproductive from one of the most senior and decorated police officers.

Now, this guy also was in the police for 30 years in some of the most senior positions and remarkably and was very high up in the task force.

One of the inquiries into Malat says he was pivotal to the decisions this way or the other.

What I'm curious about happening, I'm researching, they typically don't publish these things anyway, but I'm curious.

In order for this to keep going, what would happen if the Bureau wanted to really make hay with this, the FBI, they would set up a task force just specifically for public corruption in this area.

So it would be a public corruption task force specific to this area because they're going to need to surge resources because – This is just one data point on a stack of shit they got to do every day because, again, that's behind the sausage being made about what gets bandwidth and what doesn't.

But in order to get the resource they need in here, they're going to need a lot more people and personnel on grounds to run a lot of stuff down.

So I would think if they're going to do it, they're going to set up a task force.

Yeah, and I mean, if you know anything about the feds and you know anything about the U.S. Attorney's Office, is they are not in the business of losing.

It doesn't say that they occasionally take a loss, but for the most part, if you look up, their conviction rate is off the charts, which means that they're only bringing cases that they feel extremely confident that they're going to be able to get a conviction on.

And when they brought this... you knew that that's the way that they felt.

we assume they're one way and there's a lot more going on.

Tell me about the withdrawal, Task Force Dunkirk, and when you started getting those phone calls.

Yeah, I started getting, you know, I think like probably everybody deserved, right? You know, calls started coming in, and you want to help, and so you're, you know, and, you know, um you know guys like scott man and the pineapple express you know we're coordinating with them and then what we realized quick on you know we had another team team america there were a whole bunch of these teams running around because everybody was doing stuff and nope and doing the right thing right not waiting for permission or an organization or whatever it's like let's just go get our dudes and uh So what we really started running Dunkirk for was sort of as a coordination cell, right? You know, just a Zoom every night where all these different groups of people that were trying real hard could talk to each other.

And, you know, we'd have a couple of people that were looking at the intelligence, you know, we'd have, you know, a little Intel report for everybody.

So the people that were down there doing the work right, had information that somebody was providing it rather than them trying to search the news.

And then, you know, as these task force leads from the various elements that were getting people out of country were developing, PTPs, right? Hey, tell them to do this.

Tell them not to do this, right? That we could share those amongst everybody, right? So everybody that was trying to evacuate people.

And then, you know, by creating that place, then we also got, you know, oil and gas companies that were like, hey, we're getting our employees out of here and we have space on a bird, right? And then we could tell the task forces that, hey, anybody that can get your guys to this place, right? There's going to be a plane and there's this many seats.

But there were 2,000 drone strikes, they say that they did.

And they're part of this thing called the Task Force, which is dozens of guys.

I would say probably about 40, 50, if I had to put a guess on it, foreign ex-special forces.

Antipodean, I'd guess, Americans possibly.

Or it may be because drones are more accurate than flinging artillery shells around.

We didn't get as massive, a larger picture as perhaps I'd expected.

One of the things that strikes me about the strategy is the drones plus the special forces, this task force, when you combine it with the gang suppression force and the new armor coming in from foreign donors, you would expect that all of that would give the Haitian government and the national police confidence.

a greater ability to sort of take back turf, but are they able to hold it? Do you have a sense that this kind of these offensive weapons are creating space for the Haitian government to step in and keep the gangs from coming back?

Steve, I've stumbled onto something hot.

There's a Navy task force cruising in the eastern Mediterranean heading this way.

You mean one of ours? That's right.

And sometime tonight, they're going to run into some mines.

It was a mine layer.

I got close enough to pick up a little of their conversation.

Their plan was to lay a few mines in the path of the task force.

Afterward, they could always claim they were floating mines from the last war.