The Trump administration invoked state secrets privilege on Monday after a federal judge demanded more information about the deportation of suspected gang members to El Salvador.
Attorney General Pam Bondi told U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in a filing that giving him more specific flight details would compromise national security. Bondi said Boasberg has all the information he needed to preside over the case, including statements from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem backing the assertion of state secrets privilege.
“The information sought by the Court is subject to the state secrets privilege because disclosure would pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs,” Bondi and other top Justice Department lawyers said in the filing. “No more information is needed to resolve any legal issue in this case….
