Posted on May 15, 2025
Gabbard fires 2 top intelligence officials and will shift office that preps Trump's daily brief
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Usually the intel apparatus provides apolitical intel analysis to inform policy and agenda.
I guess we now live in a world where policy and agenda will inform political intel analysis.
I suppose the next step is to replace analysts with podcasters and influencers.
I guess we now live in a world where policy and agenda will inform political intel analysis.
I suppose the next step is to replace analysts with podcasters and influencers.
Gabbard fires 2 top intelligence officials and will shift office that preps Trump's daily brief
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New emails brought to light seem to indicate that the administration ordered a rewrite of this intel assessment to align better with supporting policy and the administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/gabbard-intelligence-venezuelans-tren-de-aragua-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/gabbard-intelligence-venezuelans-tren-de-aragua-trump.html
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Trump did not need to establish coordination between TdA and the Venezuelan government to justify the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport TdA members from this country. They have little to do with each other, and thus the release of said declassified documents have nothing to do with establishing a contradiction to Trump's policy to have TdA members removed from this country using the Alien Enemies Act (case in point, MS-13 is also classified as a terrorist faction whom can be removed using this act and El Salvador is certainly not coordinating with them currently). This is pure speculation, and I would say it is very poor speculation on AP's part. Gabbard removed them for "opposing President Donald Trump," her office did not state whether the declassified documents had anything to do with this, and they likely cannot elaborate to the press as it is likely classified. So while I agree that the IC is required to be apolitical, you have no insight based on this article as to whether they were acting in an apolitical manner (you are assuming they were). In the end, it is her perrogative to run her team.
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SGM Jeff Mccloud
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin In his March 15 proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, Trump declared that “TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”
Now, I may have only spent 3 years in an MI BN that was mostly SIGINT, but I have spent the overwhelming majority of my 30 years studying, training, and conducting operations in irregular warfare, and I see no crossover between that and what TdA does for a living.
In April, Gabbard stated that her office, which oversees and coordinates the work of the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, “fully supports the assessment that the foreign terrorist organization, Tren De Aragua, is acting with the support of the Maduro Regime, and thus subject to arrest, detention and removal as alien enemies of the United States.”
And two judges have found the law cannot be used against the Tren de Aragua gang because it is not attacking the United States. "TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion."
Based on the court rulings so far, it would seem that Trump does, in fact, need to establish coordination between TdA and the Venezuelan government to justify the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport TdA members from this country.
Or just fall back on the well established deportation processes that every other president used to deport much more illegals than Trump 45 did.
Now, I may have only spent 3 years in an MI BN that was mostly SIGINT, but I have spent the overwhelming majority of my 30 years studying, training, and conducting operations in irregular warfare, and I see no crossover between that and what TdA does for a living.
In April, Gabbard stated that her office, which oversees and coordinates the work of the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, “fully supports the assessment that the foreign terrorist organization, Tren De Aragua, is acting with the support of the Maduro Regime, and thus subject to arrest, detention and removal as alien enemies of the United States.”
And two judges have found the law cannot be used against the Tren de Aragua gang because it is not attacking the United States. "TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion."
Based on the court rulings so far, it would seem that Trump does, in fact, need to establish coordination between TdA and the Venezuelan government to justify the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport TdA members from this country.
Or just fall back on the well established deportation processes that every other president used to deport much more illegals than Trump 45 did.
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