Tulsi Gabbard has fired the director of the National Intelligence Council, Mike Collins

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These firings follow last week’s release of a partially-declassified intelligence assessment penned by the National Intelligence Council on April 7th, which found the Venezuelan government was most likely not directing the activities of the gang known as Tren de Aragua, or facilitating its operations in the United States. With such an assessment seen by some as undercutting President Trump’s rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century act invoked by Trump in March, proclaiming without evidence that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating an “invasion” of the United States “at the direction” of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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Since rumors of the assessment hit the internet in April, several top allies of President Trump and a number of right-wing influencers such as far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who is rumored to have been involved with the removal of several high-ranking members of the National Security Council (NSC) last month, have called on Gabbard to remove senior officials within the National Intelligence Council (NIC) claiming that they were attempting to undermine President Trump.

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These firings follow last week’s release of a partially-declassified intelligence assessment penned by the National Intelligence Council on April 7th, which found the Venezuelan government was most likely not directing the activities of the gang known as Tren de Aragua, or facilitating its operations in the United States. With such an assessment seen by some as undercutting President Trump’s rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century act invoked by Trump in March, proclaiming without evidence that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating an “invasion” of the United States “at the direction” of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in his new add-on role of national security adviser, is expected to significantly scale down the size of the National Security Council and make a drastic change to how it works, four people with direct knowledge of the plans told NBC News.

Shrinking the staff at the NSC would be in part designed to more closely align how it operates with the way President Donald Trump makes decisions, these people said. Rather than a large staff generating policy recommendations for the president, the idea is to create a version along the lines Trump prefers — more top-down, with the president directing the national security adviser who then leads the staff to carry out those orders, two of the people said.

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The truth is what I say it is, goddamnit!

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At the risk of being downvoted to hell......this is starting to become a pattern.

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