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At hearing, US attorney general claims she’s unaware of reports that officials have hid their faces during roundups

The attorney general, Pam 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.

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago

Politicians with spines would call her a liar.

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Either a liar or completely incompetent.

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

Why not both

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Or they were impersonating ICE agents.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh no, it's either a joke or you just don't understand. There's no way someone that intelligent and morally correct would ever back themselves into a corner that only leaves those two options.

There's just no way she's sucking president mushroom dick through the TV and not thinking about real world consequences. You're wrong and somehow I support everything that has been said by this administration no matter how stupidly evil it is.

My team good, your team bad.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Can you name any? I'd love to ask them.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jasmine Crockett and Rosa DeLauro

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 year ago

She clearly has no idea what her department is up to, so she should be sacked.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

She knows damned well what they're doing and is lying, which is why she won't be sacked.

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Easy question they can ask, Are you incompetent or a liar which is it?

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

"I'm both" is the only acceptable answer.

[-] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago
[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you have to wear a mask to hide your face to do your job, you’re the bad person. And if their leaders don’t know they’re doing this then they’re bad leaders.

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