Maddow: New Leaked Document Proves No Evidence For Trump Muslim-Ban
Rachel Maddow reported an exclusive story on her show Thursday night that proves there is no factual basis for Trump’s Muslim-ban.
The Rachel Maddow Show was able to obtain a leaked document that was later confirmed as authentic by the Department of Homeland Security. The document was an analysis of whether foreign-born nationals are more likely to commit terror attacks.
And the conclusion? There is no factual basis to use nationality as a guide to prevent terror attacks.
In fact, the analysis concluded that in most cases terrorists are radicalized years after arriving to the United States and that national origin is not in any way an indicator.
Maddow noted about the documents, “It tells us that the national security justification for the whole ban is, the setting up for extreme vetting is bull pucky in national security terms.”
Maddow went on to say, “There’s nothing they can set up at the border to tell you years down the road who might become a completely different and radical and violent person years from now because they haven’t been radicalized yet.”
“So this tells us substantively, in terms of the substance of the matter, that the intelligence community thinks the Muslim ban is nuts. The intelligence community on national security grounds thinks the Muslim ban and the whole justification for it cuckoo,” Maddow continued.
In addition, the document tells a different story Maddow said, “That tells that people inside the government, people who have access to intelligence documents like this, they want this to be known. They want it on TV. They want this out, so that no matter what the administration says about what they are doing and why we can see what the career intelligence people actually think about what this government is doing before they presumably submarine this stuff.”
According to The Rachel Maddow Show website:
“The new assessment, obtained by the Rachel Maddow Show and dated March 1, tracks 88 violent, foreign-born extremists in the United States. More than half of them had been in the U.S. more than 10 years before they were indicted or killed.
“Homeland Security tonight has confirmed the authenticity of the document. The department says production of it began in August 2016, and that it likely would have reached the White House. We have asked the White House for comment tonight. They have not responded.”
