A classified note released on Monday showed that US intelligence companies refuted a state that President Donald Trump made to support the imprisonment of more than 200 Citizens to El Salvador.
US spy agencies do not support Trump’s claims that the Tren de Aragua ( TDA ) criminal gang is connected to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government, according to a memo from the National Intelligence Council from April 7.
Trump allegedly deported people to a maximum security prison in El Salvador using a controversial wartime law known as the 1798 Alien Enemies Act ( AEA ).
The Maduro program probably does not have a plan of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movements to and businesses in the United States, the letter read.
The letter coincided with intelligence revelations that the New York Times first reported in March, which claimed US spy agencies were in conflict with Trump’s assertions.
The Justice Department announced a” criminal investigation relating to the selective leak of inaccurate, but despite being classified, information from the Intelligence Community relating to Tren de Aragua ( TDA )” a day after that report.
According to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,” We will not bear politically motivated attempts by the Deep Position to undermine President Trump’s plan by leaking misleading information onto the pages of their friends at the New York Times.”
The Freedom of the Press Foundation, which provided a version to the Times, requested the release of the letter on Monday in response to a request under the Freedom of the Press Act.
The Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling last month that would have prohibited undocumented immigrants from entering the country under the AEA, but they still must be given the opportunity to challenge their elimination.
During World War II, the AEA had previously been used to arrest Japanese-Americans.
More than 200 alleged TDA crew members have been detained in El Salvador, and the Trump administration has used deportation photos of detainees who have been imprisoned and had their eyes shaved in maximum security prison as evidence that it is reducing the flow of illegal immigration.
There is little public proof that the US government supported the claim that all detainees were TDA users.
Doctors have criticized the claim that some evacuees were lied about being members because of their tattoos.
