Team Trump Bypassed DHS Analysts to Produce Bogus Terror Report
The bogus report was created because the DHS reports didn’t have any terror events caused by immigrants from the original travel ban countries. Indeed, subsequent reports reveal that was have more reason to worry about domestic white supremacist and far right terrorism than Muslim terrorism.
But the Department of Homeland Security did not perform that analysis. DHS’ analysts did not contribute to the highly controversial report, The Daily Beast has learned.
According to a government source familiar with the episode, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ office took charge of the report’s assemblage of statistics—which some terrorism analysts consider highly misleading—and sent it to DHS Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen for her imprimatur after it was all but finalized.
“The Trump administration is trying to turn counterterrorism into an immigration issue,” said Charles Kurzman of the University of North Carolina, where he tracks Muslim-American involvement in terrorism
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