“We need to do some rewriting so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” he wrote, with acronyms referring to Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and the president.

The document in question was an intelligence assessment on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the target of the Trump administration’s most sweeping actions on immigration so far.

However, the Feb. 26 intelligence assessment that Kent wanted to alter directly contradicted the idea that the gang was affiliated with the Venezuelan government or the Maduro regime.