HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Donald Trump and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people and then, on his Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight, began to eat himself. At the time, The Intercept was unable to substantiate any part of the tale.
Now, three officials from federal law enforcement agencies — including Noem’s own Department of Homeland Security — with knowledge of the allegations say the entire story was fabricated.
“It is completely false,” said one senior law enforcement official who is familiar with the allegation but not authorized to speak publicly on the subject.
Two other federal law enforcement officials echoed this, telling The Intercept that the claims were ludicrous and that there was no evidence corroborating the story.
Asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said Noem was simply relaying the claims of an air marshal. “What ‘fabrication’ of the story of the cannibal?” the spokesperson said. “She was told that story on a deportation flight by one of the air marshals.”
The feds try people in federal court and they do have a death penalty. It was long unused when the bush administration went out of it’s way to use it, this administration obviously has furthered that attempted use of it. The idea of executing their falsely convicted before anyone can exonerate them they find attractive.
Clearly though, one of them is a cannibal, so they are accusing others of it first. There is no way between this claim, and the president talking about hannibal lector being great, that a high up with them isn’t cannibaling. Probably thiel eating products from young virgin boys. Maybe their glands or sexual organs. Probably bought from Israel now that I think of it.
A few years ago this would be a tin-foil-hat-tirade from you. Now it just feels like a typical Monday morning revelation.