THE DEPARTMENT OF Homeland Security claimed four times within 48 hours that it had “no documents” in response to records requests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation late last year. These brush-offs raise serious questions about whether the agency is saving its documents anymore, much less creating them in the first place.
Each of our Freedom of Information Act requests was for records likely to exist, and any single “no records” response would have been suspicious. But four in rapid succession is enough to cast doubt on Homeland Security’s record-keeping practices and its compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
These are the records we asked for and DHS claims it simply doesn’t have.
-All emails sent or received by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem containing the terms “CNN” and “ICEBlock”
-The complete archive of Noem’s Truth Social direct messages for her official account, @SecNoem
-All body camera footage from ICE captured as part of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago
-The request the Secret Service made to the Army Corps of Engineers to raise the water level of an Ohio river to ensure JD Vance had a nice kayaking trip
False. This is the DHS guideline mandating ICE use of body-worn cameras.
ICE policy 19010.2 regarding the use of body-worn cameras
I said they’re not wearing them…
You said that can’t be true because they’re required to wear them by law.
The flaw in your logic is you’re assuming ICE agents are following the law.
Which frankly, is pretty concerning that anyone is operating under that assumption
ICE agents don’t feel they need to operate under the law, because they think they are the law.
I mean okay but jumping down that person’s throat because you neglected to mention they were required to wear body cams by law but are instead just choosing not to is a bit much lol. I was thinking the exact same thing after reading your initial comment. They are required to wear them during these operations (especially after Chicago). I have no idea whether or not they are but they are supposed to.
In either case I think it’s pretty obvious the public won’t see any footage of body cams any time soon
Just because they mandate body cams doesn’t mean the agents are 1) wearing body cams, or 2) turning them on.
This is a fascist regime, they’ll say anything and do whatever they want. Policy and reality aren’t connected in any meaningful way. All you’ve pointed out is that they’re either lying or ignoring policy, both of which are par for the course.