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The Hill: Former national security official urge caution on Gabbard [View all]
The Hill - Former national security official urge caution on Gabbard
by Rebecca Beitsch - 12/06/24 12:00 PM ET
A group of nearly 100 former national security officials urged the Senate to “carefully scrutinize” Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as director of national intelligence.
The letter raises a number of concerns about Gabbard, a former Democratic representative and presidential candidate, questioning her experience level and a series of past controversial comments, as well as a meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Gabbard has come under fire for sharing views that counter the conclusions drawn by the intelligence community she would oversee through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which coordinates among the 18 intelligence agencies.
Those views, the officials wrote, call into question “her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the President, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus.”
“The Senate must carefully evaluate whether Ms. Gabbard is equipped to effectively oversee an organizational structure as unique and large as the National Intelligence Program and also the effect of her holding this position on the willingness of our closest allies to share intelligence with the U.S.”
The Trump transition team said the letter was an effort to “smear and imply things about their political enemy without putting the facts out.”
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by Rebecca Beitsch - 12/06/24 12:00 PM ET
A group of nearly 100 former national security officials urged the Senate to “carefully scrutinize” Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as director of national intelligence.
The letter raises a number of concerns about Gabbard, a former Democratic representative and presidential candidate, questioning her experience level and a series of past controversial comments, as well as a meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Gabbard has come under fire for sharing views that counter the conclusions drawn by the intelligence community she would oversee through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which coordinates among the 18 intelligence agencies.
Those views, the officials wrote, call into question “her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the President, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus.”
“The Senate must carefully evaluate whether Ms. Gabbard is equipped to effectively oversee an organizational structure as unique and large as the National Intelligence Program and also the effect of her holding this position on the willingness of our closest allies to share intelligence with the U.S.”
The Trump transition team said the letter was an effort to “smear and imply things about their political enemy without putting the facts out.”
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