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Trump rejects DHS intelligence report on travel ban
By Edmund DeMarche
Published February 25, 2017
FoxNews.com

Officials in President Trump’s administration Friday downplayed an intelligence report by the Homeland Security Department that
contradicts the White House’s main arguement for implementing a travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries.
The report, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal and Associated Press, determined that the "country of citizenship is
unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity."
The Trump administration has taken the position that immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries should be blocked from the
U.S. due to their terror risk. Trump used terrorism a primary justification when he announced the now court-blocked travel ban in
late January.
The intelligence report found that in the past six years, foreign-born individuals who were “inspired” to strike in the U.S. came from
26 different countries.
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Senior White House Policy Adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News' "First 100 Days" Tuesday that a revised version of the travel ban
would "have the same basic policy outcome."
A senior administration official told The Wall Street Journal that the DHS report’s assessment overlooked key information and the
finished product that the White House requested has not been completed. The White House called the report politically motivated.
Officials said it overlooked some information that supported the ban.
“The president asked for an intelligence assessment,” the official said. “This is not the intelligence assessment the president asked
for.”
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The draft report determined that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been
involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria's civil war started in 2011.
Gillian Christensen, a DHS spokeswoman, does not dispute the report's authenticity, but says it was not a final comprehensive
review of the government's intelligence.
“It is clear on its face that it is an incomplete product that fails to find evidence of terrorism by simply refusing to look at all the
available evidence,” she said, according to The Journal. “Any suggestion by opponents of the president’s policies that senior
(homeland security) intelligence officials would politicize this process or a report’s final conclusions is absurd and not factually
accurate. The dispute with this product was over sources and quality, not politics.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.
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