Somebody IS gonna get fired…..
Donald does NOT have ANY use for ‘Experts’ that do NOT agree and accept HIS made up view of Reality….
Actually?
The people who produced the assessment were NOT Trump hires….
The Director of National Intelligence has to deal with the assement results and her Boss….
The National Intelligence Council, drawing on the acumen of the United States’ 18 intelligence agencies, determined in a secret assessment early this month that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts President Donald Trump’s public statements, according to people familiar with the matter.
The determination is the U.S. government’s most comprehensive assessment to date undercutting Trump’s rationale for deporting suspected gang members without due process under the Alien Enemies Act, the 1798 law last used during World War II that laid the foundation for the incarceration of more than 110,000 Japanese Americans.
Trump invoked the act in mid-March, proclaiming without evidence that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating an “invasion” of the United States “at the direction” of the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Under the Alien Enemies Act, the government sent planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador’s notorious megaprison despite a judge’s order to turn the planes around and afford the detainees an opportunity to challenge their removal through standard legal processes….
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When asked about the findings, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence dismissed it as the work of “deep state actors” working in conjunction with the media….
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The finding was nearly unanimous among the U.S. intelligence agencies with the exception of the FBI, which assessed a moderate level of cooperation between the gang and the Venezuelan government, two people familiar with the matter said….
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The Alien Enemies Act empowers the executive branch to summarily remove foreigners whose home country is at war with the United States or waging a “predatory incursion” into U.S. territory. Legal experts believe the law requires that the invasion or incursion be linked to the actions of a foreign government….
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Rep. Joaquin Castro (Texas), wrote to Gabbard on April 10 imploring her to declassify information on TdA’s alleged ties to the Venezuelan government, a committee spokesperson said. The pair asked her to do so “in keeping with her public commitment to greater transparency” from U.S. spy agencies. They have yet to receive a reply, the spokesperson said….
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