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, at times subjecting personnel to a question as specific as whether they have cast aspersions on Patel himself.

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“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 not care about public safety,” McLaughlin said.

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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 up w/potential or hypothetical things that could be #StateSecrets.

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #law #judiciary #Trump #rendition

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 return are subject to state secrets.

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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" based on what I've heard from the government. They've told us nothing. Zero. Nothing.

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#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 Wilkinson. [Quotes Wilkinson saying that in some cases the need may be great & showing weak such that in camera review may be required...]

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration #judiciary #Trump #rendition

#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 1400 times...

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