Senate GOP must stop Tulsi Gabbard from getting keys to intelligence castle

If you thought about the worst possible choice for director of National Intelligence, former Democratic-turned-Republican Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard would be high up there. However, that's exactly who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to head the supervision of the United States's intelligence apparatus.

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Gabbard has served in uniform and deserves respect for doing so. Still, her views toward all of the United States's key adversaries make her plainly unsuited for this role. Put simply, Gabbard openly blames the U.S. rather than its adversaries for the threats they pose to U.S. national security.

On China, in a statement happily regurgitated by Chinese state media, Gabbard previously called on Trump to end the "destructive trade war with China." The former congresswoman also pushed the narrative offered by China sympathizers, such as Ray Dalio, that China should be treated as a partner rather than as an exigent national security threat.

On Russia, Gabbard opposed Trump's removal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty in response to rampant Russian breaches of that treaty. She has blamed NATO and the U.S. for Russia's invasion of Ukraine (again, to the celebration of both Russian and Chinese state media), has repeated Russian propaganda claims that the U.S. has set up secret bioweapons labs in that country, and has argued that the U.S. not Russia is wholly responsible for Putin's nuclear brinkmanship.

On Syria, Gabbard has gone far beyond Trump's skepticism for continued U.S. military presence in the country. Regurgitating propaganda from Syrian President Bashar al Assad's regime, she has blamed Trump for Syria's challenges and expressed sympathy for Assad's leadership. Assad, it should be noted, has starved, barrel bombed, and otherwise taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of his own people since the 2011 start of the Syrian civil war.

Trump has made some strong selections for top national security roles in his new administration. However, in this case, Trump put his desire for loyalty before the interests of the nation. Senate Republicans should join Senate Democrats in preventing his mistake from taking effect.

Gabbard's nomination for this important job should be voted down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5634094&forum_id=2/#48336505)

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As we remember Japan’s aggression in the Pacific, we need to ask ourselves this question: is the remilitarization of Japan, which is presently underway, truly a good idea? We need to be careful that shortsighted, self-serving leaders do not end up bringing us again face-to-face with a remilitarized Japan. #PearlHarbor82

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5634094&forum_id=2/#48336518)

Anti-Trump conservative and former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols urged the Senate to reject Donald Trump's pick of former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence in a scathing article for The Atlantic.

Gabbard, who was a Democrat for years but constantly critical of her party and started supporting Trump more recently, has no qualification for the role, he warned — and has radical anti-American views that would completely undermine the intelligence community.

literally none. (She is a reserve lieutenant colonel who previously served in the Hawaii Army National Guard, with assignments in medical, police, and civil-affairs-support positions. She has won some local elections and also represented Hawaii in Congress.) She has no significant experience directing or managing much of anything."

Worse still, he wrote, Gabbard has spent much of her career completely disdainful of the work the intelligence community does, and of America's mission on the world stage in general.

"Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, attempting to position herself as something like a peace candidate. But she’s no peacemaker: She’s been an apologist for both the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin," wrote Nichols. "Her politics, which are otherwise incoherent, tend to be sympathetic to these two strongmen, painting America as the problem and the dictators as misunderstood."

In addition to promoting conspiracy theories about the Syrian government's attacks on civilians, Gabbard has largely embraced Russian propaganda about the Ukraine war, blaming the Kremlin's unprovoked invasion on supposed aggression from NATO — whose partner nations' intelligence agencies she would have to collaborate with in this role.

Ultimately, wrote Nichols, the Senate cannot allow her to be America's spymaster, as she is a classic case of an "insider threat" government employees with security clearances are trained to spot.

"Presidents should be given deference in staffing their Cabinet," concluded Nichols. "But this nomination should be one of the handful of Trump appointments where soon-to-be Majority Leader John Thune and his Republican colleagues draw a hard line and say no — at least if they still care at all about exercising the Senate’s constitutional duty of advice and consent."

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5634094&forum_id=2/#48336519)

Pengaton and IC deserve to be humiliated

But Tulsi is a tard

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