Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang
Two officials said on Wednesday that the Director of National Intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard, launched two senior intelligence officials who supervised a recent intelligence evaluation that contradicts President Donald Trump’s assurances that the Trine de Aragoa gang was working under the supervision of the Venezuelan regime.
The evaluation has undermined the logical basis of Trump, which calls for a rare law that is used 1798, the Law of Foreign Enemies, to allow the members of the TREN De Aragua (TDA) suspect in the United States in the United States.
Two officials said that Gabbard rejected Michael Collins, Acting Speaker of the National Intelligence Council, and Council Chairman Maria Lanjan Richov, both of them are job officials with experience in intelligence analysis.
“I refused these individuals because they were unable to provide an unbiased intelligence,” one of the officials said, without explaining.
Deputy Chief of Staff Gabbard, Alexa Henning, He said in a social media post They were rejected “because they politicized intelligence.”
“The director is working alongside President Trump to end and politicize the intelligence community weapons,” said Gabbard’s spokeswoman, Olivia Coleman, in an email.
Last month, the National Intelligence Council, which supervises analyzes based on information from the country’s intelligence agencies, produced a memorandum on the relationship between TDA and the Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro regime. Quoting a consensus of all other intelligence agencies, with the exception of the FBI, and concluded that the gang does not take orders or work closely with the Maduro government.
Trump and other administration officials confirmed that the system directs TDAAND stating that it is a basis for calling the law of foreign enemies, announcing the gang. Previously law It was used only in wartime.
Evaluation conclusion It became the first year in the Washington Post report.
A former intelligence official said that it is not known whether Collins and Langan Richovs are working in evaluation, but the leaders of the Council usually sign major analyzes.
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Democratic lawmakers condemned the shooting operations, as did the former senior intelligence officials, one of whom accused Gabbard of punishing experienced analysts to provide an evaluation that did not support the president’s agenda.
John Brennan, the former director of the CIA, said the chapter “will have a real resonance” for employees in the intelligence community.
“You say the truth, you are providing objective analysis, as you are supposed to do so, you are at risk of shooting,” said Brennan Lecole Wallace of MSNBC.
He added that Collins and Langan Richovs “are one of the most experienced, accomplished and talented analysts in the entire American intelligence community” who worked with successive heads of both sides since the 1990s.
The episode indicates that intelligence professionals “must be in line with, and that there is a feeling that there should be Vallad Trump.”
Jonathan Panekov, who worked as an analyst in the National Intelligence Council, He said in a social media post The organization “is the heartbeat from the political analysis of the United States, based on the best intelligence analysts.
Senator Mark Warner, the oldest democratic of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an e -mail that Gabbard “cleanses intelligence officials on a report that the Trump administration finds uncomfortable politically.”
Warner added: “Whatever the administration is trying to protect it, it is not our national security.”
Representative Jim Hems, of Connecticut, wrote the democratic classification of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives, letter To Gabbard, she is required to provide information to Congress within a week explaining the shooting of senior officials.
Quoted by media reports that officials have been excluded due to the alleged political bias, Hems wrote that it was “a very dangerous claim to provide it against job intelligence officers” that evidence must be supported. “I ask you to provide such evidence to the committee no later than May 21,” he wrote.
Hims added that the decision to refuse officials from such an important body in the intelligence community should have been delivered to the intelligence committees in Congress in accordance with the legal requirements.
