And Where Was The CIA?

The Daily Mail published an article earlier today on the topic of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang and its ties to Iran, the Nicolas Maduro regime, and international terrorist groups, including Hezbollah. But this comment in the article caught my attention: "US law enforcement is still grappling to understand the enormity of who Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang turned international criminal organization, really is." Perhaps this is just hyperbole, but as I read through the rest of the article with its mentions of the DEA and immigration experts, I have to wonder where was the CIA, the NSA, and all the other intelligence agencies in this? Why would U.S. law enforcement have been caught flat footed if the intelligence agencies were doing their jobs? What were the intelligence agencies doing instead? Or perhaps we already know what they were doing.