"Bove emphasized, those planes need to take off, no matter what. And then after a pause, he also told all in attendance, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court, 'f*** you.' And that didn't sit well with Reuveni, saying, "I felt like a bomb had gone off. Here is the number three official using expletives to tell career attorneys that we may just have to consider disregarding federal court orders.""
"The next day, Saturday, lawyers for the prisoners sued. Judge James Boasberg called a hearing and asked government lawyer, Drew Ensign, whether the planes were leaving that weekend. Erez Reuveni: And Ensign says to Boasberg, I don't know. Now Ensign was at the same meeting that I was at the day before, where we were told in no uncertain terms that planes were taking off over the weekend, that those planes needed to take off no matter what. And he says, I don't know."
Bari Weiss is the newly installed head of CBS News and seeks to reshape the organization into a pro-Trump outlet, though that change has not yet occurred. 60 Minutes aired the first interview with DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni about conduct by then-senior DOJ official Emil Bove. Reuveni recounted that Bove insisted flights must take detainees, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to an El Salvadorian prison "no matter what," and suggested telling a court "f*** you" if an order blocked the transfers. A government lawyer who attended the meeting later told a judge "I don't know" about the flights; Reuveni called that misleading a court the highest ethical violation for a lawyer.
Read at Above the Law
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]