In a revelation that came as a shock to many, President Trump demonstrated at least a vague awareness of constitutional limits on his power by rolling out his long-promised Muslim ban in the guise of a ban on immigrants from a specified list of countries, arguing that residents of the affected countries are, empirically speaking, more prone to terrorist activity. Sure, almost everyone from those countries happens to be Muslim, but that, according to White House senior advisor and walking racist "Californians" sketch Stephen Miller, is just a crazy coincidence.

Of course, multiple federal courts dunked all over this specious-at-best reasoning and sent Miller and Rudy Giuliani and friends scurrying back to the drawing board, but it turns out that the federal judiciary is not alone in concluding that the administration has, as the Ninth Circuit put it, "pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States." The AP reports that the intelligence arm of the Department of Homeland Security—which, along with the Department of Justice, was responsible for implementing the executive order—doesn't quite buy the logic, either.

Analysts at the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump's travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States.

A draft document obtained by The Associated Press concludes that citizenship is an "unlikely indicator" of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria's civil war started in 2011.

The AP takes care to note that the memo is a draft, not a "final comprehensive review of the government's intelligence." But even these tentative conclusions are a pretty bad look for the administration's increasingly fragile argument that the executive order was a well-reasoned, carefully-tailored tool that played a vital role in protecting national security. The DHS memo has the receipts, too: