The US Senate has confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Gabbard is one of President Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet nominations. She currently oversees 18 official US intelligence agency.
Gabbard was confirmed on Wednesday morning with 52-48 votes. All Democrats and one Republican voted for Nay.
Among the most important duties of the Director of the National Intelligence Office (ODNI) office is to provide the President's daily intelligence brief. Reports show that Trump has focused more on economics and trade, and how big, bad and scary Russia is.
Opposed to establishment
At a confirmation hearing in January, members of the Senate Intelligence Email Committee peppered Gabbard with questions about his past support for Edward Snowden, who is considered a traitor of Capitol Hill. Her long-standing criticism of the Foreign Intelligence Report Surveillance Act (FISA) that she swayed before the hearing. And her attitude that Russia has been provoked by the West to Ukrainian invasion is a completely unacceptable view of the DC swamp.
Gabbard is a critic of the sacred cows of American interventionist Unipa. She skewered the intelligence that led to the Iraqi invasion, saying it was “based on the complete failure of either full manufacturing or complete intelligence.”
This may explain why Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is the only Republican who voted against her confirmation. He recently wrote an essay in favour of more interventionism on foreign affairs in January/February 2025. (CFR).
In his essay, McConnell laments the possibility that newly elected leadership under Donald Trump will reduce America's international presence. It is an incredible display of support for the eternal war that Americans are tired of. McConnell even reveals his desire to make America better at fighting multiple wars. Nonetheless, his official reason for opposing Gabbard's confirmation is her views on Snowden and Russia. You can read McConnell's statement on this issue.
Politicized Inter institutions
Another problem Democrat statisticians had with Gabbard is her perception that the intelligence news community (IC) has become a political figure like Stasi. “For too long, false, inadequate, weaponized intelligence has led to costly failures that undermine our national security and constitutional freedom,” she published by Newsweek. I mentioned it in OP-ED.
In January, she reminded the senator that the IC spyed on Trump by using FISA to illegally obtain a warrant on his advisor Carter page. She nurtured that Joe Biden's then campaign advisor Antony Blinken was behind the letters of 51 former intelligence officers who dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as “Russian fire.” Ta. The former DNI James Clapper then lay on the Senate Intelligence Email Committee by denying the existence of a program that promotes a mass collection of telephone and internet records for millions of Americans.
Priority
As a new DNI, Gabbard outlined her priorities.
First, biases are made to assess the global threat environment, identify where intelligence gaps exist, integrate intelligence elements, increase intelligence sharing, and support decision-making for President Trump and policymakers. Ensure that no, non-political, objective collection and analysis is ensured.
Secondly, I will end the politicization of ICs and realize President Trump's commitment to Americans to focus on the essential mission of ICs that secure our country.
Third, we will rebuild trust in our intelligence community through transparency and accountability.
Finally, we assess and address the efficiency, redundancy, and effectiveness of the overall ODNI.
She is also expected to report to the Intelligence Reports in search of information regarding the assassination of unreleased President John F. Kennedy.
background
Gabbard, 43, was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, and served on combat tours overseas. She is also a former member of the CFR and is essential for the construction of a global government. Gabbard was listed in the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders program. This is a designation she says that it happened without permission or knowledge.
She left the Democrats in 2022. Her tenure, representing Hawaii's Second Congressional District, lasted from 2013 to 2020. This means that only 29% of the time votes are consistent with the US Constitution.
However, her record will be improved on issues that are more suited to her future status as DNI. She voted against the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Report Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2018, and introduced the law in 2020 to repeal section 702 of the law. In December she came out in support of Section 702, calling it a “critical national security tool.” This was probably to ease concerns among Senate Republicans in order to attract enough votes to be confirmed. She argued that “significant FISA reforms have been enacted” since her time in Congress. These appear to include new safeguards designed to protect American privacy.
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