Summary
Nearly 100 former national security officials expressed alarm over Trump’s nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence due to her past alignment with Russian and Syrian officials and lack of experience.
In a letter, they urged Senate committees to hold closed-door hearings to assess her qualifications and review any government-held information about her.
Critics highlighted her controversial 2017 trip to Syria to meet Bashar al-Assad and her questioning of U.S. intelligence.
Gabbard’s spokesperson dismissed the criticism as partisan attacks, while the Senate confirmation process is expected to be contentious.
I’ve been hoping for a war between the MAGoos and the old guard RNC for almost a decade.
Right Wing vs Far Right
and the Far Right is winning… 😬
If we can split the vote the Left has a chance of moving ahead.
What vote
You just know the Democrat leadership would try to pander to and gobble up the “old-school burn-the-world conservative” vote instead of capitalizing on their split from the batshit wing.
The Left had two chances to get Bernie Sanders nominated. In 2020 he did better in the caucus states [where the DNC would be able to exert more control of the outcome]. The Left failed both times. Maybe we should stop looking at the Dems and get our act together. FYI I contributed to Bernie both cycles.
I was born in a country that is afflicted with very much the same disease. Some might say we were patient zero. Yes, it is Hungary.
The hope that something might be better at some point only came after we finally could get our Dem-equivalents out of the picture and well below the parliament threshold.
😂 Yup. Been hearing this tune for a while now.
Looks like the old guard is losing. Not exactly a win for humanity in my book.
It doesn’t matter, does it? This is Trump’s America, and Americans walked into this with eyes wide open. Knew exactly what and who he is. We deserve everything that’s coming, and I hope we get it all. If the voters don’t suffer, they will never learn, it seems.
This is your regular reminder that Tulsi Gabbard is literally in a cult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation
She got that gray stripe from turning Michelle Pfeiffer into a newt.
There were 51 “former intelligence officials” who signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. (a lie)
Three digits’ worth being alarmed about Gabbard being their boss doesn’t bother me at all.
It’ll be Russia’s intelligence community at that point lol
If I was an asset deployed abroad as an operative against Russia especially… I’d request being pulled out. No way you will live.
As if the “intel community” was ever a shining beacon of goodness. How many of these “national security” officials were perfectly happy to see the US spy on its own citizens, invade Iraq and Afghanistan, help overthrow the governments of multiple other countries, and contribute billions toward a genocide?
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Personally I’m on the fence about Gabbard in this role. Unlike most of Trump’s picks, I don’t think Tulsi is just in it to enrich herself. There’s a lot of establishment bullshit about her being a Russian shill or whatever, but the real reason they hate her is because she was honest about how horrible Clinton is… That’s it. They don’t like Party members stepping out of line. Of course she did endorse Trump which isn’t great, but I’m hoping it was a gambit to get into this role so she can start moving us towards peace instead of never ending wars (okay, that’s the other reason the establishment hates her).
What, and stay with me here, the fuck are you on about
Which part?
Edit: Actually, they put it right in the article for us.
“These unfounded attacks are from the same geniuses who have blood on their hands from decades of faulty ‘intelligence,’ including the non-existent weapons of mass destruction,” said spokesperson Alexa Henning, referring to a purported justification for the start of the Iraq War that turned out to be wrong.
“These intel officials continue to use classification as a partisan weapon to smear and imply things about their political enemy without putting the facts out,” Henning continued."
You don’t seem to be educated at all on this topic, no offense
Well… I’m not buying the bullshit from the establishment media, that’s for sure. She’s said she’s working to do whatever it takes for peace. Any evidence to the contrary?
Yeah establishment media all around is fairly biased, some places much more than others. It’s my opinion at least that it takes a good amount of research and education to cut through the thinly veiled news that many places put out.
Also, there’s a big push to remove some of the more honest news outlets by big media.
She has had a ton of legitimate reports that she heavily consumes Russian propaganda networks. Also, her 180 from being a Democrat to being a Russia supporter and parroter of their talking points almost overnight is what soured me on her, and is hella suspicious. To each their own but I absolutely don’t support her being in charge of our national intelligence given even the slightest chance she’s on vlad’s payroll.
In any case, I’m not hating on you specifically at all and we can disagree peacefully. Let’s both keep on educating ourselves because knowledge is power!
Hit me with your favorite report(s)… I’m open to learning more about it. Except for supporting Trump, I think most of what I’ve heard her say sounds correct, reasonable, and for the greater good. If you have examples to the contrary, I’d be interested in that too. If there really is more than corporate media or “intelligence sources” that show she’s legitimately not trying to act for the good of everyone, I really would like to know.
Of course if she is saying correct things that happen to match with what Russia is saying, I think we’ll have to take a look at what Russia is saying.
