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Data Privacy,
Civil Litigation

Aug. 3, 2022

Disappearing DOJ witness testifies in Twitter spy case, gets impeached

“These developments demonstrate that the government continues to engage in gamesmanship,” the defense wrote its statement to the court. “Now that the Court has granted Mr. Abouammo’s motion for leave to introduce Ms. Neboisa’s exculpatory statements, the government has suddenly produced Ms. Neboisa, and has strongly and repeatedly suggested that the defense must call her.”

The Department of Justice was accused of improper “gamesmanship” after the mystery witness in the trial of a former Twitter employee accused of being a spy for the Saudi government took the stand Tuesday in San Francisco and contradicted her reported statements from a pretrial interview with the FBI.

Ana Carmen Neboisa, vice president of the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council who was previously dismissed by the prosecution as a witness on ...

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