Former CIA Counterterrorism Director Bernard Hudson supports the nomination of Army Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard to be President-elect Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence in an op-ed published Friday, calling her a national intelligence official. He praised him as an independent thinker who would restore trust in the country. Device.
hudson I wrote in national review: “She has the experience, temperament, and professional integrity necessary for the U.S. intelligence community to win and maintain the trust of the American public.”
He added:
Ms. Gabbard is a career public servant who served in the Hawaii State Legislature and four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the latter capacity, she was a member of the House Armed Services Committee. She was also vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. She also served in her country's uniform for more than 20 years in the U.S. Army with a combat deployment to Iraq. As a soldier, she knows both the importance of patriotism and the costs that any military intervention necessarily entails.
In addition to serving her country in combat zones, Gabbard has another, and equally unusual, form of courage. DNIs need to be willing to say unpopular, and sometimes unwelcome, things in the pursuit of accuracy, and to look beyond the often blinding conventional wisdom of the Belt and Road.
In 2015, Gabbard, a former Democrat, criticized the Obama administration for refusing to call the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) “radical Islamic terrorism'' despite the rise of the terrorist group, and she joined the party. He pointed out that he had rebelled. Al Qaeda.
Hudson pointed out that Gabbard has been stigmatized as a Russian agent, even though she maintains top secret clearance as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
She called claims that she supported hostile leaders, including former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, whom she visited in 2017, “misleading” amid the Syrian civil war, which threatens to increase U.S. involvement. said.
“Rather than being soft on America's adversaries, she has proactively asked tough questions of the flawed elite foreign policy consensus,” Hudson wrote.
Shortly after his visit to Syria, he said, “concerns about who would take over in Syria led the foreign policy elite in Washington itself to abandon regime change as a priority.”
He said intelligence agencies may have raised voices like Gabbard's before the Iraq war, which were “falsely justified by exploiting flawed information about weapons of mass destruction.”
“We could tap into similar internal skeptics against today's consensus,” he wrote.
He also cited other failures in the intelligence community, saying the removal of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi would improve stability in the region and allow the Afghan government to survive the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Hudson said, “Only within the IC, the DNI can ask tough questions about the conclusions and recommendations that U.S. critical security services are authorized to provide to the president and policymakers.'' He is the only official who must do so.”
“It would be wrong to blame Tulsi Gabbard for reflexively refusing to subscribe to any foreign policy conventional wisdom of the elite. On the contrary, independent thinking is an essential requirement of the job to which she has been appointed. Career Intelligence “The community should seize this opportunity to welcome a real overhaul of its operations to earn and maintain the trust of the American people,” he concluded.
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