Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
If a lawyer is shown to be dishonest in communications to a judge should there not be severe sanctions?
To call the lawyer "dishonest" assumes that the lawyer knows the truth and is deliberately denying it. Given the bureaucratic monstrosity that DHS is, I could find it plausible that the lawyers were told by higher-ups that it wasn't DHS's fault the witness couldn't board a plane, while some lower-level DHS employee actually performed the action that led to the witness being denied boarding.
Hanlon's Law: never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.