Tulsi Gabbard's chief of staff, Joe Kent, pushed for the National Intelligence Council to edit memos so they would align with President Donald Trump's misleading statements on immigration, according to leaked emails

Stalin would be applauding

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    3 days ago

    “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.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Directly making up, and lying to the people, for the glory of great leader Stalin Drumpf.

    Well, we’ve hit the point where nothing at all from the government can be trusted as real.