Sen. Mark Warner to call out Tulsi Gabbard in floor speech for 'going to war' with intelligence community

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Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2025, 6:00 AM ET


Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia is escalating his criticism of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, accusing her and the Trump administration of “going to war” with intelligence professionals and sacrificing the integrity of US intelligence “on the altar of partisan convenience.”

Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, plans to deliver a Senate speech Thursday warning of the dangers of the steps Gabbard has taken atop the US intelligence apparatus, according to excerpts of his remarks obtained by CNN.

“For months now, we’ve watched President Trump’s administration, led in this arena by his hand-picked Director of National Intelligence, Ms. Gabbard, systematically undermine the men and women whose only mission is to keep this country safe,” Warner will say, according to the remarks. “If we let politics dictate what intelligence is acceptable, we are effectively flying blind.”

This is not the first time Warner has criticized Gabbard, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to lead an intelligence community he openly distrusts and criticizes. “Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to our national security and should be fired,” Warner posted on X last month, after Gabbard declassified documents related to the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which Warner said was released for “clearly political purposes, without proper coordination with the agencies responsible for protecting sources and methods.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/politics/mark-warner-tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-community

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1. I hope the various intelligence people are telling Gabbbard lies to hand over to Putin. She is a Russian asset.