WASHINGTON (AP) — Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States.
A draft document obtained by The Associated Press concludes that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war started in 2011.
Trump used terrorism a primary justification when he announced the now court-blocked travel ban in late January.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Gillian Christensen does not dispute the report’s authenticity, but says it was not a final comprehensive review of the government’s intelligence.
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the strategy to get the islamic ban going was to use the cover of the countries obama had put on the state sponsors of terror list. just to get things rolling, you know.
Yup, Trump is going to be hopping mad tonight. Has he hopped on AF1 to Mar-a-Diablo already?
The final comprehensive review of this disAdministration’s intelligence will consist of two tests:
• Can they keep the finger paints on the paper; and
I doubt this comes as a surprise to any reasonable individual.
The conclusions of the final analysis will prove interesrimg.