White House effort to justify travel ban causes growing concern for some intelligence officials

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Source: CNN

White House effort to justify travel ban causes growing concern for some intelligence officials

By Jake Tapper and Pamela Brown, CNN
Updated 2256 GMT (0656 HKT) February 23, 2017

Washington (CNN) - President Donald Trump has assigned the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice Department, to help build the legal case for its temporary travel ban on individuals from seven countries, a senior White House official tells CNN.

Other Trump administration sources tell CNN that this is an assignment that has caused concern among some administration intelligence officials, who see the White House charge as the politicization of intelligence -- the notion of a conclusion in search of evidence to support it after being blocked by the courts. Still others in the intelligence community disagree with the conclusion and are finding their work disparaged by their own department.

"DHS and DOJ are working on an intelligence report that will demonstrate that the security threat for these seven countries is substantial and that these seven countries have all been exporters of terrorism into the United States," the senior White House official told CNN. "The situation has gotten more dangerous in recent years, and more broadly, the refugee program has been a major incubator for terrorism."

The report was requested in light of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' conclusion that the Trump administration "has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States." The seven counties are Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

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One of the ways the White House hopes to make its case is by using a more expansive definition of terrorist activity than has been used by other government agencies in the past. ...

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/white-house-effort-to-justify-travel-ban-causes-growing-concern-for-some-intel-officials/

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1. It might be good if the WH and the DOJ know what they are talking about.

" ... using a more expansive definition of terrorist activity than has been used by other government agencies in the past. ... "

"The situation has gotten more dangerous in recent years, and more broadly, the refugee program has been a major incubator for terrorism."

Painting these countries with such a broad brush is dangerous. Making shit up to this KKK administration comes way to easily. They don't care who they harm, especially our own citizens. This KKKrazy KKKlown Car is going to blow up soon, they won't be able to blame President Obama, he's in Chicago.