A top aide of Tulsi Gabbard ordered officials to scrap a damning study finding the administration would not be justified in deporting Venezuelan migrants without due process. An unnamed White House official ordered an intelligence study about whether the administration could legally justify the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—which allows removals without court hearings during wartime and requires the involvement of a

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired two senior intelligence officials who led a recent assessment that contradicted the White House’s justification for invoking an 18th-century law to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

John Brennan, Former CIA Director join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, firing two intelligence leaders at the National Intelligence Council weeks after the council published an assessment that contradicted the Trump Administration's reasoning for its mass deportation agenda.