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.
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?