Top Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday that the Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving him information about deportation flights from earlier this month that are at the center of a legal dispute over whether the government flouted...
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Top Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday that the Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving him information about deportation flights from earlier this month that are at the center of a legal dispute over whether the government flouted his judicial commands.
“The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it,” Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top DOJ officials wrote in a filing to US District Judge James Boasberg. “Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address.”
“The information sought by the Court is subject to the state secrets privilege because disclosure would pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs,” the officials wrote in the 10-page filing.
The problem with the "state secrets" argument here is that it proves too much. If we accept the state secrets idea in this case, it means there is basically NO case where the government will have to answer any questions or provide information. I'm EVERY case, the government could say "state secrets" and every due process or civil rights claim would be dismissed.
The judge just has to point out that there were cameras / recorders and resulting pictures and videos of the people released as propaganda.
Simply highlighting this fact negates any argument from the Trump regime that they can't identify any of the victims due to "national security".
The reality is they KNOW they did this to at least some innocent people who were law abiding and following the rules in regard to immigration etc. They spent a week trying to dig up or manufacture some believable "dirt" on those folks and have failed. Pulling this routine is their last gambit to try to either cover up their misdeeds or delay things long enough that it falls out of the current news cycle.
“The need for additional information here is not merely ‘dubious,’ … or ‘trivial,’ … it is non-existent. The Executive Branch violated no valid order through its actions, and the Court has all it needs to evaluate compliance.” Then why the problem giving the judge requested information?? Nothin but "transparency" from this "administration.
While the actual state secrets are being released by Pete Hegseth to a reporter from the Atlantic.
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