The National Intelligence Director of USATulsi Gabbard, said Wednesday that his agencies are divided over the links that the government of Nicolás Maduro can have the transnational criminal gang Aragua train.
“There are diverse evaluations from different organs of the intelligence community”he said Gabbardwithout going into details, during a hearing before a committee of the House of Representatives.
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The government of Donald Trump He said the Aragua train acted in the United States under the direction of Maduro Executive as justification to invoke the Law of foreign enemies of 1798, used only in War times.
The invocation of that rule, now blocked by a federal judge, served to deport about 200 Venezuelan migrants accused of being part of the Aragua train, that were delivered to El Salvador and imprisoned by the government of Nayib Bukele.
The declaration of Gabbard On the conclusions of the intelligence agencies seems to contradict the position of the government of Trumpused for the approval of several measures against Caracas.
And it goes in the same line as a leakers’ intelligence report The New York Times which concluded that “he Aragua train does not act under the direction of the Government of Venezuela or commit crimes in USA by order of this ”.
During the audience in the Lower Housethe director of the Central Intelligenci Agencyto (INC), John Ratcliffewas asked if USA is at war or is being invaded by Venezuelagiven the invocation of the law of 1798 of times of war.
“We have no evaluation that says that”Said Ratcliffe.
