President Trump’s assertion that the gang committed crimes in the United States towards the Venezuela government was decisive to him Calling the War Time Law last week To deport people who are suspected of belonging to this group.
However, US intelligence agencies reached the results of last month, which are flagrantly incompatible with Mr. Trump’s allegations, according to officials familiar with the matter. On February 26, the document summarized the joint judgment of the espionage agencies in the country that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan government.
The disclosure calls for questioning the credibility of Mr. Trump’s basis to summon a law in wartime rarely A group of Venezuelan to a highly security prison in El Salvador At the end of last week, with no legal procedures.
The intelligence community evaluated that the gang, Treen de Aragoa, is not managed by the Venezuela government or committed crimes in the United States based on its orders, according to officials, speaking on the condition that his identity is not disclosed to discuss internal deliberations.
The officials said that analysts put this conclusion at the “moderate” confidence level, due to a limited volume of reports available on the gang. Most of the intelligence community, including the CIA and the National Security Agency, agreed to this evaluation.
Only one agency, the FBI, partially creative. It has maintained that the gang is related to the administration of the authoritarian president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, based on the information that other agencies did not find credible.
“The multiple intelligence assessments of issues are prepared for several reasons,” the White House said in a statement. “The president was part of his legal and constitutional authority to summon the law of foreign enemies to expel illegal foreign terrorists from our country.”
A spokesman for the National Intelligence Director’s office refused to comment.
Mr. Trump took advantage of the extraordinary use of wartime authorities to strengthen the immigration campaign. The administration has prompted nearly a Constitutional clash With the judiciary. A judge in Washington thinks Whether the administration violates his matter It was prohibited, at the present time, the expulsion of migrants under the law. The Ministry of Justice condemned this matter that it violates the powers of Mr. Trump for National Security and asked the Court of Appeal to cancel this.
The law of foreign enemies enables the executive branch to remove foreign citizens whose government is in a declared war with the United States or invading or participating in a “predatory penetration” in American territory. The government used the last time the law to arrest and return Japanese, Italian and German citizens during and after World War II.
On his face, it seems that the law not only requires invasion or penetration, but it is a link to the actions of a foreign government.
In his announcement, Mr. Trump actually summoned such a link to the legal presence by saying that he decided that Tree de Aragoa was an agent of the Venezuelan government and to commit crimes in the United States in its direction because Mr. Maduro sought to destabilize the country.
“I do these results using the full range of my authority to conduct the foreign affairs of the nation under the constitution,” said Mr. Trump.
The officials said that the main realistic assurances of Mr. Trump contradict the previous intelligence assessment. He concluded that the gang does not act in the direction of the Maduro administration and that the two are hostile to each other, citing the accidents in which the Venezuelan security forces exchanged fire with members of the gang.
Since the information available in the world of intelligence is often incomplete or incomplete, analysts help the levels of confidence for real assurances and conclusions. Such warnings indicate that even if most or all the evidence points are currently available in one direction, it is possible that something else will appear that will change their opinion.
The officials said that the general conclusion was put in “moderate” confidence, and some supportive points that were placed with “low” confidence, because there were no reports as much as analysts wanted to have “high” confidence. They said that the United States has been examining the government of Venezuela for a long time, but only recently began to focus on Treen de Aragoa.
According to one official, he also photographed the gang as lacking resources and being very unorganized-with little in the way of any leadership and central control-to be able to implement any government orders. The official said that the evaluation says that although a handful of corrupt Venezuelan officials have relationships with gang members, this does not reach that the gang is under the influence of the government as a whole.
As this evaluation said, as this official said, he confirms that he is at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specific The gang as a foreign terrorist organization last month In the direction of Mr. TrumpThe Minister praised the Maduro administration publicly this procedure. (Administration step This practice was broken From reducing “terrorist” designations for organizations with clear ideological motives.)
Federal courts are usually postponed the realistic injuries of the executive authority about what is happening and why, rather than searching for what may actually happen. This is particularly the case in national security and foreign policy matters.
But this respect is based on the idea that officials make decisions in good faith and rely on the resources of the executive branch, such as intelligence agencies to assess fast and sometimes dangerous situations. Mr. Trump’s pattern in distorting the truth Test that practice.
The administration’s insistence that all the men who were sent to El Salvador are members of the Trine de Arago The appeal was also stabbed. In one of the court files, an official Recognized Many do not have criminal records, but they said that the scarcity of details only confirmed that “they are terrorists regarding those who lack a full profile.”
Lawyers for some immigrants have Data collected from family members and others denied their involvement in the gang. For example, for one detainee, for example, She set her client as a football player Those who were tortured to participate in the anti -Maduro protests and thus fled to the United States to seek asylum.
The lawyer said that US officials accused him of being a member of Treen de Aragoa based on a tattoo and a hand gesture that he made in a social media. But she said that the tattoo was a copy of the football team logo, and the hand gesture was a common symbol “rock and roll”.
Mr. Trump’s announcement was martyred with slight evidence of his primary discovery that Tree de Aragoa as a organization committed crimes to destabilize the United States “in a direction or otherwise, to the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”
The most realistic details were that the gang had expanded from 2012 to 2017, when Tarik Issami occupied as a ruler of the Arajwa region, and in 2017, Mr. Maduro was appointed as Vice President. But the advertisement was deleted that Mr. Aissami is no longer part of the Maduro administration, which is His trial for corruption.
On Saturday, when the colors of Venezuelan immigrants were transferred to El Salvador, Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal Provincial Court of Columbia, banned the administration of removing the permitted persons based on the law of foreign enemies.
He was appointed to the former public prosecutor, and he was first appointed to the bench by a Republican president and raised to his current role by Dom Democrat. He angered his decision to prevent the deportation of the Trump administration under the main law and its allies, which prompted Mr. Trump An invitation to isolate him.
The administration has appealed the Court of Appeal of the Colombia County Department. The case is now in front of the judges, Karen Henderson, Justin Walker, both of whom are Republican appointed, and Patricia Melit, a democratic appoiner.
Appeal courts usually reject the challenges facing temporary restrictions. However, the committee has requested urgent surroundings and scheduled arguments, indicating that it is considering taking a decision on legal advantages to summon Mr. Trump to the work of foreign enemies.
Any judgment can partially turn to whether the judges accept Mr. Trump’s assurances about Trine de Aragua and its assumed relations with the Venezuelan government, as the administration insisted.
The Ministry of Justice wrote that “determining whether there is” invasion “or” predatory incursion “, whether the organization is sufficiently linked to a nation or a foreign government, or whether the national security interests have been involved to clarify AEA, it is a political issue in the first place that must be answered by the president.
