Latest posts tagged with #StateSecrets on Bluesky
#R4Today If Britain's security services detected that #Mandelson and #AndrewMB were disclosing #statesecrets WHY DIDNT THEY ACT? If they didn't, their surveillance systems are clearly either not good enough or not watching the right people!
#R4Today Surely the reason why #Mandelson had to be fired by #Starmer is because evidence emerged from the #EpsteinFiles that he leaked #StateSecrets to his criminal friend. And we paid him compensation!!!!
Beyond the Boots and Barbecue: Little-Known Facts About Texas #ERCOT #TexasFacts #TexasHistory #AmazingTexas #StateSecrets #DidYouKnow
@ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses Fox "news" who admits Donald Trump was PUBLICLY HUMILIATED by #VladimirPutin at their DISASTROUS #AlaskaSummit, as well as breaching security protocol AGAIN leaving #StateSecrets in the public hotel printer #ImagineIfADemocratDidThat
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Two-panel editorial cartoon titled State Secrets. In the first panel, a man in a bland hotel business center looks at a paper stamped with the U.S. State Department seal and the word “CLASSIFIED” in red. In the second panel, a hotel copier spits out a crude Sharpie drawing of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin holding hands under the heading “BFFs,” with red hearts above them. Trump’s exaggerated signature is scrawled at the bottom.
This just in: NPR reports classified State Department papers turned up in an Alaskan hotel business center. What did they reveal about Trump’s meeting with Putin?
#PoliticalCartoon #PoliticalSatire #NPR #Trump #Putin #StateSecrets #EditorialCartoon #Cartoonoftheday #Anchorage #PeaceSummit #Ukraine
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#lethalinjection #bookTV #deathpenalty #statesecrets
Do We Still Need “State Secrets”?
In an age of hackers, anything can be revealed; so is anything really, truly secret?
Read my latest Substack (it's free): open.substack.com/pub/mayorbry...
#ConspiracyTheories #statesecrets #NationalIntelligence #Wikileaks #hackers #topsecret
Typically, the #FBI has turned to #polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with #StateSecrets.
Since #KashPatel took office as the director of...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
Typically, the #FBI has turned to #polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with #StateSecrets.
Since #KashPatel took office as the director of the FBI, the bureau has significantly stepped up the use of the lie-detector test […]
#Blotus' claim of the #StateSecrets privilege about his #IllegalRenditions is ironic because the origin of the state secrets doctrine was a lie told in a negligence suit against a military contractor after a fatal plane crash. Corrupt then. Corrupt now. #Resist
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The Absence of “State Secrets” in US-El Salvador Agreement: On Removal and Imprisonment of Non-US Citizens
By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/113739/state...
#StateSecrets #AlienEnemiesAct #AbregoGarcia
“We invoked the #StateSecrets #privilege over many of the details—of course our officials discussed what should be divulged publicly. This just proves they are responsible public servants putting the safety of the American people first. The leakers of these emails, on the other hand, clearly do […]
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They’re stalling, ridiculing and playing games!
Every1 involved in this case should be arrested, if #KilmarAbregoGarcia is not returned home ASAP! Their incompetence is an embarrassing 2BAR, judges & #SCOTUS!
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Rossman: Important to underscore the context here. We're talking about a single person removed to another country. And it's very difficult to swallow from position of common sense that this information would endanger the diplomatic relations w/ #ElSalvador
We could pool our imaginations to come […]
Rossman: Knowing the stakes, we ask them to be kept on as short a leash as possible.
Now turns to #StateSecrets & what govt must show to properly invoke the #privilege.
Rossman: It was interesting to me that they aren't taking a categorical view that all steps they've taken to facilitate […]
Guynn: It's coming clear to me now that this isn't productive without reference to discovery under seal
#Xinis: Ok, we'll save it.
Anything else before a go back to Rossman?
Guynn: Nothing further on #StateSecrets.
Rossman at the lectern now for #KilmarAbregoGarcia.
"My head is spinning" […]
#Xinis: If the need is great & the showing is weak, the case #law suggests that I then have to go into an in camera inspection. I know that's not the ordinary course in #StateSecrets...
Guynn: Need is not a factor in the analysis.
Xinis: Let me direct you to Sterling [case law]. This is Judge […]
#DOJ / Guynn continues: Not sure where we left off...I think one of the #StateSecrets factors.
Guynn: There are ZERO documents withheld based ONLY on state secrets #privilege. There are 43 based on deliberative process...
#Xinis: What am I looking at then? I see one of those privileges invoked […]
#Xinis: Is it worthwhile discussing the other prongs re #StateSecrets?
Guynn: Yes, bc prong 3 asks what do we do if there are state secrets...& often, what happens is the case is dismissed.
Xinis: That's not this case...it's not about liability
Now Xinis is in a back & forth w/Guynn about […]
#Xinis cites other #StateSecrets affidavits that specifically say things like it would reveal identities of #CIA officers....Here, all I have is "not affects national security."
Guynn: Respectfully, YH, there's more here than you give credit
Xinis: Again, I just don't think this affidavit cuts […]
#Xinis: Where in that says HOW compelled disclosure of this info presents a real danger affecting foreign affairs or national security? There's not enough there there...How am I supposed to determine that?
Guynn basically says again that courts owe deference to executive...
Xinis: Previously […]
#Xinis: If what you're asking me to acknowledge is that foreign affairs is an area in which #StateSecrets might apply, I agree. But the other part of the test is that the court must be satisfied that there is evidence as to the dangers asserted by the gov regarding the production of certain […]
#Xinis: It’s because I take my job really seriously, that I am considering it. But I will not look to another case.
[think she’s implying, others are not so serious?]
#DOJ addresses some arguments made by plaintiff re #StateSecrets.
Guynn: They said that it doesn't apply to foreign affairs […]
#Xinis turns to whether there's an affidavit from a high-level ofcl at #DHS invoking the #StateSecrets privilege. They filed one from #Rubio (#State) but not DHS. Guynn says #DOJ would rely on declarations in JGG case. Xinis isn't having it, says she won't look to filings in another case.
Xinis […]
#Xinis: My thought is that since the govt bears the burden of invoking the (#StateSecrets, deliberative process) #privileges, I want to hear from them first.
Rossman thanks judge, sits down.
Guynn is up for #DOJ, says he wants to respond to some of the things Rossman said.
Guynn #SCOTUS […]
Rossman: Our thought on order of operations is that the road block seems to be #StateSecrets & deliberative process #privilege.
Our thinking is if we could get get guidance on where we are w/those privileges, that would guide us how to go forward...we want answers to fundamental questions […]
Atty for #KilmarAbregoGarcia is Andrew Rossman today.
For #DOJ, it's Jonathan Guynn (no Drew Ensign today).
DOJ doesn't object to unsealing the #Rubio affidavit re: #StateSecrets #privilege.
Rossman: We're practical folks & we've tried to get answers to questions posed by judge in April […]
A lot of the filings are under seal.
But #Xinis says she wants to try to do as much of it as she can in open court.
Xinis: My current thinking on #StateSecrets is that there's 1 affidavit from #Rubio, & most of that has been publicly disclosed. Portions filed in JGG. Large portions cited in […]
