Make it match the #propaganda!
Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on #Venezuelan Gang
The move followed a disclosure that intelligence agencies disagree with a key factual claim #Trump made to invoke a wartime #deportation #law.
#immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Venezuela #Maduro
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/trump-appointee-venezuela-gang.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=BF4B795A-299F-4CA7-AF0E-DD4C2880AA85
A top adviser to the director of national #intelligence [#DNI] ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between #Venezuela’s govt & a gang after intelligence findings undercut #Trump’s justification for deporting immigrants, acc/to ofcls.
Trump’s use of a wartime #law to send #Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in #ElSalvador without #DueProcess relies on a claim that US intelligence agencies think is wrong.
But behind the scenes, a political appointee told a career ofcl to rework the assessment, a direction that allies of the #intelligence analyst said amounted to pressure to change the findings.
#Trump on March 15 invoked the #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct, to summarily remove people accused of being members of the gang, TdA. The #AEA requires a foreign state’s involvement, & Trump claimed #Venezuela’s govt directed the gang to commit crimes in the US.
On March 20, NYT reported that an #intelligence assessment in late February contradicted that claim. It detailed many reasons that the intelligence community as a whole concluded that the gang was not acting under the Venezuelan govt’s control. The FBI partly dissented, maintaining that the gang had some links to #Venezuela’s govt based on information all the other agencies did not find credible.
#Trump #propaganda #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Maduro
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