Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
New emails document how a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, ordered analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating President Trump and Ms. Gabbard from being attacked for the administration’s claim that Venezuela’s government controls a criminal gang.
“We need to do some rewriting ” and more analytic work “so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS, ” Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3, using shorthand for Ms. Gabbard’s position and for the president of the United Щати.
The New York Times заяви предходната седмица, че господин Кент е подтикнал анализаторите да пренасочват оценката си от 26 февруари, откакто се появи, че е противоречащо на държавното управление на Венецуела и бандата, Трен дьо Арагуа, откакто освети, че оценката опонира на последващото изказване о...
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