…At least as far back as 2023 a #DoD memo, also seen by NPR, prohibited use of mobile apps for even "controlled unclassified information," which is many degrees less important than information about on-going #military operations.

There's…no precedent for the heads of #Defense, #State, #Intelligence & #NationalSecurity to be sharing such sensitive military intelligence in a forum that was known to be unsecured.

Earlier, #Trump also said that it was up to #MarcoRubio & that his secy of #state “has a lot of big decisions to make” in the wake of the judge’s ruling.

“He’s got the authority to get bad people out of our country, & you can’t stop that w/a judge sitting behind a bench that has no idea what goes on, who happens to be a radical left lunatic.” [acc/to trump any judge who rules against him is a radical left lunatic — seems like there are a lot of those, eh? /s]

Asked on Fri if he would authorize flights that night despite the court order to halt them, #Trump deflected & suggested that it would be up to #MarcoRubio.

“…I’d have the Secy of #State handle it, because I’m not really involved in that,” [bullshit] he said. “But the concept of getting bad people — murderers, rapists, drug dealers, all of the — these are really some bad people — out of our country — I ran on that. I won on that.”

Regular meetings between the NSC & #Europe’s #NationalSecurity ofcls have gone unscheduled, & the NSC has also stopped formally coordinating efforts across #US agencies, including w/the #FBI, #DHS & the #State Dept….

Reuters could not determine whether #Trump has ordered the admin to halt all its work monitoring & combatting #Russia’s campaign….

The agents identified themselves as being w/ #DHS & told #BadarSuri the govt had revoked his #visa…
Suri…was put in #deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of #immigration #law that the govt invoked to deport #MahmoudKhalil, the #ColumbiaUniversity grad student & #GreenCard holder who led pro-#Palestinian protests on campus. That provision gives the secy of #State power to deport noncitizens if he determines their continued presence in the #US would threaten #ForeignPolicy.

The letter cont, “We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted. If true, this would have devastating consequences. Can you please update us as to the status of the data from the evidence repository?”

The Yale lab was one of several recipients of $26M in funding through the #State Dept to track #WarCrimes committed by #Russia in #Ukraine. Pages on the Conflict Observatory have been removed from State’s website under #MarcoRubio.

The bipartisan letter, signed by 17 lawmakers & organized by Representative Greg Landsman, #Democrat of Ohio, said that “the #ForeignAid freeze has jeopardized, & may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of #Ukraine on this front.”

The #State Dept & the Yale center “had been preserving evidence of #abducted #children from Ukraine it had identified, to be shared w/ #Europol & the govt of Ukraine to secure their return,” the letter says.

Those officials are Jeremy Lewin, who has been working for the cost-cutting task force led by the billionaire #ElonMusk, & Kenneth Jackson, a #State Dept official who was named the acting president of the U.S. Institute of #Peace #USIP this week [another independent agency under assault by #Trump, #Musk & #DOGE & subsequently embroiled in federal lawsuits].

#PeteMarocco, the #State Dept ofcl who oversaw the #Trump admin’s efforts to dismantle the main govt agency distributing foreign #aid, announced in an email on Tues night that he would be replaced at the agency by 2 officials who had been involved in making the cuts.

Marocco said in the email that he would remain at State as director of #ForeignAid, but that 2 other officials would handle what remains of the #USAID.

A draft of the #ExecutiveOrder designating #fentanyl as #WMD was distributed likely sometime last week to US Departments of #Commerce, #Defense, #Justice & #State.

Those agencies met on Friday, per a read out of the meeting Kabas reviewed, to discuss concerns.

Judge Chuang found that #ElonMusk is unlawfully exercising power under the #AppointmentsClause. However, because some of the #USAID dismantling was done by #PeterMarocco — #Trump’s #State Dept Director of #ForeignAssistance — not #Musk, & the dismissed employees didn't sue #USAID, he limited his preliminary injunction.

#Bukele posted a video on Sun of what he says is 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in #ElSalvador. He said they would be transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in the country, for 1 year.

#MarcoRubio, #Trump’s secy of #State, last month said Bukele had agreed to accept deportees from the US of ANY NATIONALITY [including US #citizens]. Bukele's social media posts on Sun refer to "a very low fee" that the #US paid to El Salvador for the #deportations.

'After arresting #MahmoudKhalil, #ICE supervisory special agent Moran in NY presented Khalil w/a notice to appear at #immigration court inside an LA detention center.The notice said he could be deported based on §237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the Immigration & Nationality Act: “the Secy of #State has reasonable ground to believe that your presence or activities in the US would have potentially serious adverse #ForeignPolicy consequences for the US.”

Khalil refused to sign.'
Via @Nonilex @palestine