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Editing intelligence for political purposes is the kind of thing we expected out of this office. Joe Kent wrote in regards to not finding a link to tren de Aragua eing sent by Venezuela:

The emails from Joe Kent, the chief of staff to the director of national intelligence, were published by The New York Times onTuesday,days after the newspaper reported that he had pressured officials to scrap a Feb. 26 assessment that found the Trump administration had no legal basis to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.

“We need to do some rewriting” and more analytic work “so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” Kent wrote in an email on April 3 to a group of intelligence officials, the newspaper reported.

“Let’s just come out and say TDA leaders are given sanctuary in Venezuela as their gang members commit horrendous crimes in America, then we can provide the context about our exact knowledge of relationship between TDA and the Venezuelan government,” Kent wrote to officials including Michael Collins, then the acting head of the National Intelligence Council.