Trump's Intelligence Scandal: Firing Truth Tellers? | Analysis #news #trump

Now the blockbuster story he was reacting to at the time was the news that Trump Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had fired intelligence officials for putting out an intelligence report that contradicted Trump As former CIA Director Brennan put it last week they were fired for telling the truth Back in March Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan immigrants without due process of course and his justification at the time as I'm sure you remember for invoking the act was his claim that America was being quote-unquote invaded by Venezuela invaded specifically by members of the Trende Aragüe gang at the direction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro It turns out though that as you all know that is not true That's false The intelligence report these analysts were fired over stated that the Venezuelan gang Trende Aragua was not controlled by or in cahoots with Venezuela's president U.S intelligence agents reported the actual truth the truth that contradicted Trump and were fired for it That on its own was of course a jaw-dropping revelation And that is where the story stood last week when former CIA Director John Brennan commented on it But now the story has gotten even darker This week the New York Times reported that even before Trump Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired the agents who published a truthful report her chief of staff had ordered intelligence analysts to rewrite that truthful report so it could not be quote used against Trump So not only is the Trump administration firing intelligence agencies for telling the truth they are also pressuring them to be at least the very least less than truthful Joining me now is former CIA Director John Brennan It's great to see you And I know you've been following this closely And as somebody who grew up and rose to the top of the intelligence community I can only imagine how outraged you feel as you see all of the developments But I just have to ask you about this latest one I mean what do you make of this reporting that the chief of staff for the director of national intelligence was pressuring intelligence analysts who are not political at all They're just doing their job They're providing the analysis pressuring them to rewrite their findings to be more in line with what Trump wanted Well Janice worrisome on so many levels first of all the integrity and objectivity of the intelligence community's analysis is a solemn obligation of all analysts to make sure that there's going to be no politicization of that analysis and that intelligence And it's quite clear from the reporting that has come out that the direction that was coming from Tulsi Gabbard's Chief of Staff Joe Kent to try to manipulate the analysis so that it would in fact conform with what the Trump administration has done on Venezuela And it's because these analysts resisted that interference is the reason why they were fired also this individual Joe Kent has been nominated to be the director of the National Counterterrorism Center I was the first director of the National Counterterrorism

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