All posts tagged "Frank Figliuzzi"

A pair of legal experts sounded the alarm over how the Trump administration plans to use a secret terrorist court.

During a recent podcast episode, former FBI counterterrorism agent Frank Figliuzzi and lawyer and former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa detailed how President Donald Trump and his administration could use the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, which sat dormant for 30 years before a sudden activation earlier this month.

According to Rangappa, the court allows the Trump administration to deport noncitizens from the United States if it can convince a single judge that the defendant is a foreign terrorist. A defendant facing immediate removal would never see the evidence against them, as an attorney general would be able to argue that a person is a terrorist with classified evidence....

A former FBI official warned that the Trump administration "dismantled" the teams responsible for handling new strains of a virus now alarming experts and the world.

"The hantavirus situation should serve as a wake-up call," Frank Figliuzzi, a former high-ranking FBI official, told Harry Litman on his podcast on Thursday.

"Did you know that the actual unit created to deal with new strains of hantavirus research, including the strain that we're seeing right now, has been dismantled?" Figliuzzi asked. "Gone, fired." ...