This is phenomenally bad strategy from the government. All of this information can be obtained from:
public sources like FlightAware, X, and Truth Social; and
from eyewitness prisoners who went on the flights and came back to Texas. That's right. At least one guy was refused admission by El Salvador, because he's actually Nicaraguan and not Venezuelan at all. And there were eight women prisoners who were also refused. They all got back on the plane and they're now back in Texas, within federal court jurisdiction.
I don't see how state secrets privilege can keep the public evidence, the video promo, and the eyewitness testimony out of court. This can only serve to weaken the power of the privilege without providing any concrete benefit to the government.
It's like when you look at a piece of wood on your deck and you think: "do I need to replace that whole plank, or is it just fine?" So you stick a knife in to see how solid the wood is, does the knife immediately stop or does it plunge right through.
This is regarding the Venezuelans who were illegally extradited to El Salvador despite a court order. There are questions as to when officials received the order: those involved claim the prisoners had already been released to El Salvador by the time the order was communicated to them, others think the order would have come mid-flight and that the order was purposefully ignored.
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This is phenomenally bad strategy from the government. All of this information can be obtained from:
I don't see how state secrets privilege can keep the public evidence, the video promo, and the eyewitness testimony out of court. This can only serve to weaken the power of the privilege without providing any concrete benefit to the government.
It's like when you look at a piece of wood on your deck and you think: "do I need to replace that whole plank, or is it just fine?" So you stick a knife in to see how solid the wood is, does the knife immediately stop or does it plunge right through.
So we shall see just how rotten things are.
No, we won't. Has anything changed?
I'm way out of the loop here, what's this all about exactly?
This is regarding the Venezuelans who were illegally extradited to El Salvador despite a court order. There are questions as to when officials received the order: those involved claim the prisoners had already been released to El Salvador by the time the order was communicated to them, others think the order would have come mid-flight and that the order was purposefully ignored.
Thanks