Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as top U.S. intelligence official

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10. Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence

Putin is very happy. The GOP is the party of trump and Putin

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The Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence on Wednesday, elevating a former lawmaker with controversial foreign policy views to the head of the country’s spy agencies.

Gabbard was confirmed on a 52-48 vote. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the only Republican to oppose Gabbard’s confirmation.

A former Democratic congresswoman turned Republican, Gabbard was initially considered a long shot for DNI given her history of going against U.S. intelligence consensus and her warm views on American adversaries like Russian President Vladimir Putin and now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

During her confirmation before the Senate Intelligence Committee in late January, Gabbard was grilled on her foreign policy views and her professed change of heart about a surveillance program she once tried to repeal as congresswoman. She also repeatedly declined to say if she believed Edward Snowden, a former government contractor who leaked highly classified documents, was a “traitor.”