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Internal Memo on Abducted Tufts Student Exposes Marco Rubio as 'Stone-Cold Liar' [View all]
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rumeysa-ozturk-memoInternal Memo on Abducted Tufts Student Exposes Marco Rubio as 'Stone-Cold Liar'
A State Department memo found that the secretary of state failed to produce a shred of evidence that Rumeysa Ozturk took part in antisemitic activity or showed support for a terrorist group.
JAKE JOHNSON
Apr 14, 2025
An internal U.S. State Department memo written days before plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents abducted Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk last month found that the Trump administration did not produce any evidence demonstrating that the doctoral student took part in antisemitic activity or showed support for a terrorist group.
That finding, revealed in Sunday reporting by The Washington Post, undercuts Secretary of State Marco Rubio's repeated insistence that Ozturk and other students who have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration have engaged in "impermissible actions taken to support designated foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Houthis."
"The key takeaway from this story is that Marco Rubio is a stone-cold liar," wrote political scientist Daniel Drezner.
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