Hours before Tulsi Gabbard appeared for a combative hearing on her nomination as director of national intelligence on Thursday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gave some public advice to the woman who once pushed for his pardon.
“Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers as a condition of confirmation today. I encourage her to do so. Tell them I harmed national security and the sweet, soft feelings of staff. In D.C., that’s what passes for the pledge of allegiance,” Snowden said on X.
Even after facing more than a dozen questions about Snowden, however, Gabbard refused to back down.
Instead, Gabbard told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Snowden broke the law and that she would no longer push for his pardon — but that he had revealed blatant violations of the Constitution.
Listening to her is incredibly frustrating. I don’t see Snowden as a traitor but this bitch is one of the last people that should be trusted with intelligence
It’s just furthers Putin’s goals, even if it was the right thing to do. Broken clocks and all that.
Listening to casual misogyny is incredibly frustrating.
Frustrating that we don’t have a popular vocabulary equipped to express casual disdain without echoing implicit bigotry. Perhaps this administration will give us an opportunity to formulate some new slurs appropriate to the people in charge of it.
She’s selling out LGBT and other marginalized people for money and power.
She’s a bitch.
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