UPDATED: More Noemite Nonsense, Filed Just Now -- In Maryland. Do Roundly... Ignore It.

Of course, Mr. Hecker will soundly debunk all the nonsense in this sworn declaration [six page pdf file, and link inactivated] in due course, next week -- but for now, I will note that the affiant therein lies (under oath, to boot!) in at least one very glaring respect: the agency employee avers that Mr. Abrego Garcia is a member of a notorious criminal gang operation.

As my regular readers by now well-appreciate, there is exactly zero evidence of this claim. In fact, Donald Trump showed a photoshopped purported close up (now widely admitted to have been made -- as a "joke" -- by some far right Steve Bannon acoloyte) of Mr. Abrego Garcia's hands, to claim they bore evidence of "gang tatoos". This has been soundly refuted, with actual photos of his hands.

The agent, whose name I will not print here. . . might start thinking about whether she's really ready to be charged with. . . perjury.

As an agency employee, with specific duties, she is clearly prevented by applicable law, from offering HER opinion as to matters NOT in evidence. Paid government informants, themselves admitted gang members, seeking early release or other favors from ICE and DHS are not in any sense credible witnesses. And she knows it -- as does Noem herself. So, do stay tuned -- we will wait for Mr. Hecker to eviscerate this, in his usual, elegant prose.

And he will. Onward, resolutely.

Grinning here, now. . . out -- as in fact, we won't even link it -- until then. Let's be fair: she cannot tar him with her libelous hyperbole. Not at least until his counsels have their say on the matter, here -- next week.

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