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Snellius

(6,881 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 10:11 AM Jun 2018

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/

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CBS News interview with ICE whistleblower interrupted by surprise visit from government agents (Original Post) Snellius Jun 2018 OP
What a way to gestapo an interview C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #1
Put it on TV. Show Trump's Gestapo in action. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #2
It was. ChiTownDenny Jun 2018 #3
Oh, perfect. And probably will be picked up by MSNBC and others. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #4
No "may" about it. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #18
Gestapo tactics heaven05 Jun 2018 #5
Damn, They Showed Up While a TV Crew Was There Leith Jun 2018 #6
... TommyCelt Jun 2018 #14
So the traitor in the white house goes and asks a person to lie.............. turbinetree Jun 2018 #7
Kennedy resigned so new judge without kids in business with Jared can rule OhNo-Really Jun 2018 #9
republicans want to imprison the First Amendment Achilleaze Jun 2018 #8
Chilling. think4yourself Jun 2018 #10
"In 17 years in the military, ... I have never been asked to lie." That changed. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 #11
Awesome moral patriotic courage Snellius Jun 2018 #12
do we think people might "get it"--this is chilling, horrifying, appalling. niyad Jun 2018 #13
This is terrifying. Sinistrous Jun 2018 #15
Interesting to see how quiet the left is about this... Blue_Tires Jun 2018 #16
K & R. Will watch CBS News this evening. Duppers Jun 2018 #17
CBS had a new story. They should follow up... 7wo7rees Jun 2018 #19

C_U_L8R

(45,025 posts)
1. What a way to gestapo an interview
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 10:22 AM
Jun 2018

We may be seeing more heavy handed state police tactics as these fuckers amass more power and feel more emboldened.

 

ChiTownDenny

(747 posts)
3. It was.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 10:38 AM
Jun 2018

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.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
18. No "may" about it.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 06:46 PM
Jun 2018

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.

Leith

(7,813 posts)
6. Damn, They Showed Up While a TV Crew Was There
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 10:53 AM
Jun 2018

Stunning coincidence? Deliberate intimidation tactic? CBS should air this segment until even people in comas hear about it.

turbinetree

(24,726 posts)
7. So the traitor in the white house goes and asks a person to lie..............
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 10:55 AM
Jun 2018

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)
9. Kennedy resigned so new judge without kids in business with Jared can rule
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 11:34 AM
Jun 2018

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)
8. republicans want to imprison the First Amendment
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 11:01 AM
Jun 2018

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.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,664 posts)
11. "In 17 years in the military, ... I have never been asked to lie." That changed.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 11:58 AM
Jun 2018
David Fahrenthold Retweeted:

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...


Snellius

(6,881 posts)
12. Awesome moral patriotic courage
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 12:13 PM
Jun 2018

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.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
16. Interesting to see how quiet the left is about this...
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 01:05 PM
Jun 2018

A couple years back, Snowden, Assange, Greenwald, Timm, etc would have conniptions over such a brazen whistleblower crackdown...

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