AG Bondi did not do well at her latest debacle in front of a Senate committee. It was kinda like Trump and the “Weave” but with Bondi and the Bluffs. She struggled to answer some questions and tried to misdirect on others. Apparently, it was quite the disgrace. Let’s have a look at one of them, from The Guardian, via MSNBC:
[Bondi] professed ignorance of reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during roundups of undocumented people, despite widespread video evidence and reports that they are instilling pervasive fear and panic. Challenged at a Wednesday Capitol Hill subcommittee hearing by Gary Peters, a Democratic senator for Michigan, Bondi, who as the country’s top law officer has a prominent role in the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy, implied she was unaware of plain-clothed agents concealing their faces while carrying out arrests but suggested it was for self-protection.
How in the H*LL could she not know that? She never watches TV? She never looks at the news on her phone? She lives in an isolated bubble? Masked ICE agents and masked people that may or may not be ICE that sweep through a neighborhood, arresting everyone in sight that *might* be an illegal immigrant because of the color of their skin? Plus, the whole LA protest event?
But no, she says it hasn’t been brought to her attention. What a line of hooey. She couldn’t come up with something better? Oh. Wait. She’s a member of tRump’s cabinet, and they’re not known for their brains. Alrighty, we have a rebuttal of sorts. From The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie:
… ICE officers aren’t anonymous commentators on a social network; they are representatives of the state, acting on its behalf and empowered to use force if necessary. As a federal agent, an ICE officer is a public servant whose ultimate responsibility lies with the people. And the people have the right to know who is operating in their government. If an ICE officer does not want to risk identification — if he does not want the public he serves to hold him accountable for his actions — then he can choose another line of work. That ICE has claimed this right to anonymity — which is to say, the right to evade responsibility for its actions in the field — is a testament to the ways that Trump has, in his pursuit of impunity, warped and undermined the idea of a public trust.
That’s not the only place that is rejecting her weak reason for ICE agents hiding their faces – to “prevent doxxing”. Except not. Here we have an additional rebuttal from MSNBC:
Revisiting our earlier coverage, every day, in communities nationwide, police officers do their jobs with a high degree of transparency: The public can see the officers’ faces, badge numbers, rank, and, in most instances, even their last names featured on uniforms. Though many cops are forced to deal with threats and violence, there isn’t a police department in the United States that allows officers to wear masks or hide their identities while they carry out day-to-day duties.
Indeed, that’s the American norm across agencies, departments, and jurisdictions. State troopers don’t wear masks. Neither do FBI agents. U.S. marshals don’t wear masks; sheriffs don’t wear masks; prosecutors don’t wear masks; and Secret Service agents don’t wear masks.
I think she might just be full of it, but I’m trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, although that’s a lot of benefit needed. She would have been better off to answer with something other than this: “implied she was unaware of plain-clothed agents concealing their faces while carrying out arrests, but suggested it was for self-protection”. That isn’t it. Thanks for sticking with me!
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She’s a serial liar making Bullfrog Barr look like a Boy Scout. Although he okey dokied torture under Bush, and helped Trump avoid criminal prosecution in 2016 for colluding with Russia, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice, he, at least, admitted the 2020 election was valid. Chatty Bondi knows who pulls her string.
Bingo!
Who was that guy with the mullett standing next to her at the press conference?
Unfortunately, I have no earthly idea. I couldn’t find the picture again, so I can’t even guess. My apologies.
Like seemingly all in this regime, she seems to think that if you repeat lies often enough, they turn into the truth.
But they remain lies.
Absolutely!!!!