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Trump Ordered U.S. Intell Report to Justify His Travel Ban. This is What He Got Instead

February 26, 2017

The Department of Homeland Security has concluded that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of whether an individual poses a terror threat to the US, according to a draft report obtained by the Associated Press.

 

Donald Trump had ordered an intelligence report to justify his embattled travel ban on 7 Muslim majority nations. But the 3-page draft “challenges Trump’s core claims” about the reasoning behind the executive order. The report found hardly any terror-related activities in the U.S. linked to people from the 7 countries listed in the travel ban. All they really have in common is that they’re predominantly Muslim.

 

The report also notes that more than half of terror suspects it looked at were US citizens born in the United States.

 

Meanwhile, the White House is pushing back against the AP’s story on the DHS report. A senior administration official told the WSJournal, “This is not the intelligence assessment the president asked for.”

 

A DHS spokesperson said the draft report was “incomplete.” though she didn’t dispute its conclusions.