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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
   Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin:   
    |   
    | NEW: Since yesterday's deadly shooting in MN, I've talked   
    | to more than half a dozen federal sources involved   
    | immigration enforcement, including several in senior   
    | positions, who all tell me they have grown increasingly   
    | uneasy & frustrated w/ some of the claims & narratives DHS   
    | pushed in the aftermath of the shooting.   
    |   
    | Specifically, I'm told there is extreme frustration with   
    | DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements   
    | claiming that Alex Pretti was intending to conduct a   
    | "massacre" of federal agents or wanted to carry out   
    | "maximum damage", even after numerous videos appeared to   
    | show those claims were inaccurate. While they say it was a   
    | terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself   
    | into a federal law enforcement operation, there is no   
    | indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement, as   
    | videos appear to show he never drew his holstered firearm.   
    |   
    | These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has   
    | been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective, as it   
    | is eroding trust and credibility - comparing it to when   
    | Democrats falsely claimed the border was closed or that   
    | Haitians were being whipped at the border.   
    |  ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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