But DHS officials are distancing themselves from the report, with Acting Press Secretary Gillian Christensen calling it an \u201cincomplete product“<\/b>
An intelligence report compiled by DHS\u2019 Intelligence and Analysis Unit has concluded that citizens affected by President Trump\u2019s travel ban are \u201crarely implicated in U. S.-based terrorism.\u201d
The report concluded that \u201ccountry of citizenship is unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity,\u201d and it says that \u201crelatively few\u201d of the citizens of these countries maintain access to the U. S.\u201d The countries named in the president\u2019s original travel ban were Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Yemen.
The U. S. has long accepted refugees fleeing violence and famine in Somalia, a policy now in jeopardy following President Trump’s efforts to restr…
DHS officials, however, are distancing themselves from the report. Acting Press Secretary Gillian Christensen called it an \u201cincomplete product that fails to find evidence of terrorism by simply refusing to look at all the available evidence.\u201d
Christensen noted the report was put together from open-source material – mainly from U. S. government press releases and public documents, as opposed to \u201can official, robust document with thorough interagency sourcing,\u201d and \u201cit doesn\u2019t include data from other intelligence community sources.\u201d The footnotes to the report acknowledge that the material is open-source and that some of it can be found on the State Department website.
The leaking of the document suggests that there may be some disagreement within DHS on the intelligence that is being used to rewrite the new travel ban executive order that President Trump is expected to sign next week. U. S. government sources tell CBS News that there has been friction between some intelligence analysts and their superiors.<\/p>\n

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