National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard fired two top intelligence officials who oversee recent intelligence assessments, contradicting President Donald Trump's assertion that action is under the guidance of the Venezuelan regime, two officials said Wednesday.

The assessment undermines Trump's citation of a seldom-used law, the Alien Enemies Act, to allow alleged members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang to be deported without standard due process.

Gabbard dismissed acting chairman of the National Intelligence Commission, Michael Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof, the council vice-chairman, who have decades of experience in intelligence analysis, the two officials said.

"She fired the men for not being able to provide impartial intelligence," one official said.

Gabbard's deputy chief of staff Alexa Henning said in a social media post that they were dismissed "because they politicized intelligence."

"The directors are working with President Trump to end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community," Gabbard spokesman Olivia Coleman said in an email.

Last month, the National Intelligence Commission, based on information oversight analysis by the country's intelligence agency, developed a memorandum of the relationship between the TDA and the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. It cited consensus from all other intelligence agencies except the FBI and concluded that the gang would not receive orders or coordinate closely with the Maduro government.

Trump and other administration officials asserted that the regime directed TDAAND to declare the gang an invading force as the basis for invoking the Alien Enemy Act. Previous laws were only used in wartime.

The conclusions of the assessment were first made public in a report by The Washington Post.

A former intelligence official said it was unclear whether Collins and Langa Rekov were in the assessment in person, but the leaders of the council usually conduct significant analysis.

The far-right activist Laura Loomer, who lobbied Trump to fire some national security officials in a social media post last month, picked Collins and the National Intelligence Commission.

"Why are leakers in the NIC trying to undermine President Trump's efforts to expel members of the Tren de Aragua gang? ... Senior NIC officials should be fired."

Loomer has been praised for recently dismissing the four-star general responsible for the National Security Agency General Timothy Haugh.

Democratic lawmakers condemned the firing, as did former intelligence officials, one of whom accused Gabbard of punishing experienced analysts, providing an assessment that did not back up the president’s agenda.

John Brennan, a former CIA director, said the firing would “really reverberate” for employees in the intelligence community.

"Obviously, across the intelligence community, told analysts: 'You are honest, providing objective analysis, you are taking the risk of being fired,'" Brennan told MSNBC's Nicole Wallace.

He added that Collins and Langan-Riekhof "are the most experienced, accomplished and talented analysts in the entire U.S. intelligence community," who have worked for successive presidents of both parties since the 1990s.

This episode shows that intelligence professionals “have to line up, and there’s a feeling that Donald Trump needs loyalty.”

Jonathan Panikoff, who worked as an analyst at the National Intelligence Council, said in a social media post that the group is “the heartbeat of a non-political full-source analysis in the United States” and draws on the best intelligence analysts.

In an email, Senator Mark Warner, the top Democratic Senator of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Gabbard “is passing a report that the Trump administration believes is clearing intelligence officials.”

"Whatever the government tries to protect is not our national security," Warner added.

Ranking of House Intelligence Committee Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat in Connecticut, wrote a letter to Gabbard asking her to provide information to Congress within a week and explained the firing of two senior officials.

Himes quoted media reports that officials were fired for alleged political bias, writing that “a very serious allegation against professional intelligence officials” should be supported by evidence. "I ask you to provide such evidence to the Commission by May 21," he wrote.

Himes added that officials should be dismissed from the intelligence community by statutory requirements.