Thread by @bmarcois

BREAKING: New intelligence briefing refutes Judge Boasberg’s main objection to deporting the criminal aliens of Tren de Aragua.
Biden’s CIA officials involved.
I’ve seen the evidence that TdA is funded and directed by the Venezuelan government. Why does that matter? Read on: 🧵

Boasberg said TdA is not a foreign government against whom the United States has declared war.  But that is a deliberate misreading of the text of the law.  The law is quite simple.  Here it is, in its entirety:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.

The law states clearly that the predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government,” and that “the President shall make public declaration of the event.”  Are those conditions met?

The President issued the required declaration, on March 15th. But does the situation meet the other criteria?  Is the criminal gang activity of Tren de Aragua “perpetrated, attempted, or threatened by a foreign nation or government?”

An extraordinary article last week by Miami Herald investigative reporter Antonio Maria Delgado provides clear answers.  Delgado interviewed a team of high-level investigators and analysts who have been following the Venezuelan regime for over ten years.

The only team member to speak on the record is Gary Berntsen, among the most highly decorated CIA veterans in recent history.  I spoke with Berntsen after the article was published.  He confirmed that Tren de Aragua was purposely sent to the United States to destabilize our country.

Berntsen said, “The Venezuelan regime has assumed operational control of TdA and has trained 300 of them; they have given them paramilitary training, training them to fire weapons, how to conduct sabotage, in a four- to six-week course. Then they deployed them into the United States to 20 separate states.”

“Remember, sabotage includes arson,” he said.  “Many of these wildfires, industrial fires, the Los Angeles fires taking advantage of wind and the local conditions, were started by arsonists.  How many of them were paid or coerced by TdA or their surrogates?”

Berntsen is coming forward now because two CIA officials leaked false intelligence to the New York Times recently, claiming the Agency has no intelligence connecting TdA with the Venezuelan government.  But Berntsen showed me proof of the close relationships among Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan military and intelligence apparatus, Cuban intelligence, and the worst of the Latin American narcoterrorists.  He has shared not only the intelligence, but the sources, with elements of the U.S. government.

“The CIA doesn’t have the information because they refused to look at it,” Berntsen said.  “We tried to brief them about this three years ago, but they were directed by the Biden Administration to ignore it.  And now those officials are trying to undermine President Trump.”

Review the record:

Predatory?  Yes.

Incursion?  Yes.

Invasion?  Yes.  A light brigade-sized force of military aged men (2,000).

Perpetrated by a foreign nation or government?  Yes. TdA was trained, directed, and funded by the government of Venezuela and its criminal allies.

For the full story with links, read here. And please share this widely.

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