Summary

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired National Intelligence Council Acting Chair Mike Collins and Deputy Maria Langan-Riekhof after they contradicted Trump’s claims about the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

A declassified NIC report found no Maduro-directed effort behind TDA’s U.S. activity, opposing Trump’s justification for suspending Venezuelan migrants’ due-process rights.

Whistleblowers accused the officials of undermining Trump. Gabbard is relocating the NIC from the CIA to her office.

Critics warned the firings suggest intelligence is being shaped to suit political agendas, not facts.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    Edit: and it appears you’ve just gone back and downvoted me. Well done. You’ve really showed me who was right here.

    Lol. Because you’re wrong and being insufferable about it.

    It’s not my job to force you agree with very minor misuses of esoteric bits of language that I happen to know a fair bit about and can (and have) backed up.

    You haven’t backed up anything.

    Nark is recognized as correct spelling. Dictionaries don’t include misspellings in entries. You don’t also see ‘narck’ or ‘knarc’ or ‘knark’ or any other potential misspelling. Even in MW, it is describes as “a less common variant”.

    ‘Nark’ is a correctly spelled word. it’s also within proper grammar as I used it.

    What I suspect you are trying- and not saying- is that ‘nark’ is not preferred by whatever manual of style you happen to subscribe to. Which is totally, and utterly irrelevant. We are not in a formal venue. We are in a causal venue, and you don’t get to dictate how I express myself. this is not a scientific journal, nor a newspaper. none of the style guides you might care to mention apply. Not the Chicago Manual of Style, nor any other university’s or college’s. Not the AP manual of style, or any other in-house manual of style a paper might use. Neither the AMA guide nor the APA guide, nor the Redbook.