The Trump administration is once again trying to rewrite reality to fit its agenda and this time, it’s pressuring U.S. intelligence officials to go along with it.
A top adviser to the Director of National Intelligence told a senior analyst to redo an assessment that didn’t support the White House’s narrative about Venezuelan migrants. Why? Because the original intelligence findings undercut Trump’s justification for using the Alien Enemies Act a wartime law from 1798 to deport Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador without due process.
Trump claims a violent gang called Tren de Aragua is acting on behalf of Venezuela’s government and committing crimes in the U.S. But intelligence agencies looked into it and disagreed. The community-wide assessment said there’s no solid evidence the gang is controlled by the Venezuelan regime. Only the FBI partially dissented, based on intel the rest of the agencies didn’t find credible.
Rather than accept the truth, Trump’s team directed analysts to rework their findings what insiders call political pressure on career officials to change the facts.
This is how authoritarian governments operate: They don’t just ignore the truth they demand that others rewrite it to suit their goals. And in this case, the cost is real human lives migrants being deported under false pretenses, denied basic legal rights, and sent into danger.
The intelligence community is supposed to serve the truth, not a political agenda. But under Trump, that line keeps getting crossed.
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