CBS News interview with ICE whistleblower interrupted by surprise visit from government agents
Source: CBS News
In his first television interview, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson James Schwab has opened up about why he abruptly resigned in March. But his interview with CBS News' Jamie Yuccas on Wednesday was unexpectedly interrupted by agents identifying themselves as agents from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office.
"They just said that they wanted to talk to me about the leak with the Oakland mayor," Schwab said of his conversation with the agents.
Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to "spin" information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland's mayor.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ice-spokesman-james-schwab-opens-up-about-resignation-trump-administration/
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)We may be seeing more heavy handed state police tactics as these fuckers amass more power and feel more emboldened.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)ChiTownDenny
(747 posts)I saw it on CBS This Morning. My jaw dropped. Clearly an intimidation tactic. CBS will probably run the segment on this evening's news.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Lil Jeffy Sessions has a need to overcompensate big time. He's gonna be the tuff law and order guy, no mercy to anyone.
Having said that, the ICE interruption is a pretty scary move. We are in real jackboot territory now.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Stunning coincidence? Deliberate intimidation tactic? CBS should air this segment until even people in comas hear about it.
I believe it was a deliberate intimidation tactic.
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.........................are not stopping this asshole from nominating a fucking U.S. Supreme Court justice while he (the traitor with orange fucking hair) is under investigation for fucking TREASON, and then he does this shit and asks a person top LIE for him..............its is time to go into the streets-----------------seriously.
And as for this Gorsuch asshole, if there is impeachment is this asshole going to "recuse" himself..................I fucking doubt it..........................................
Get out an vote, November cannot get here fast enough, we have to get to the finish line before they ( the fucking traitors do)................................
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)THE PRESIDENT CANNOT BE INDICTED, A JUDGE WITH NO BLATANT CONFLICTS OF FAMILIAL INTERESTS
A lock step theocratic fascist recommended by Mannafort & Heritage
we have monsters at the helm
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and the media better wake up NOW - because it is late. This republican gestapo shit is going to get more and more intense, as republicans attack the press by following the russian model of stomping out facts and truth.
think4yourself
(839 posts)Schwab is a true patriot.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,664 posts)This is extremely troubling: "In 17 years in the military, at the Department of Defense as a civilian, at NASA, and now at Homeland Security, I have never been asked to lie.". He says that changed...
Link to tweet
Snellius
(6,881 posts)These are the kind of real nonpartisan patriots, like Mueller, that Trump likes to call "Deep State" and whose loyalty to higher principles he is obsessed with weeding out. The backbone of the democracy who may, if things go too far, determine its fate.
niyad
(113,612 posts)Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)A threshold I never thought I would see crossed.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)A couple years back, Snowden, Assange, Greenwald, Timm, etc would have conniptions over such a brazen whistleblower crackdown...