TULSI GABBARD's National Intelligence Director nominated from the Senate Information Committee on Tuesday and taught her to the final voting later this month.
The panel met a secret, but the parliamentarians showed that the voting, which reported the Gabard's nomination, fell along the party's route.
43 -year -old Gabbard has room to lose three GOP votes in the entire Senate before her nomination fails.
Some Republican members and the national security Hawks have warned Hawaii's past skepticism against the Intelligence Community. The most prominent report is that Syria's dictatorship Bashal Al Asado has made dozens of chemical weapons attacks on his own people during the 10 -year civil war. Middle East country.
Last week's Gabbard's confirmation hearing opened, a small number of Republican members burned her into her early stance and that they were deeply reserving her nomination.
At one point, Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) told the candidate at one point, “It will be useful for the methods that are recognized by members of the Intelligence Committee,” at some point. safety.
Snowden's past supporter, Gabard, refused to call the former contractor a “traitor,” but she did not ask for amnesty and share the details of the NSA's non -warrant program. I acknowledged that it was broken.
young Announced on Tuesday She will reced the Gabard after she revealed that “Our IntellignCENCE experts have been supported and the policy creators have given him to receive fair information under her leadership. “
Another potential swing voting, Susan Collins Senator Senator (R Main), also advantageous to Gabard and praised the plan to slim the office of the Director of the National Information Bureau.
Senator James Lanford (R-OKLA) said he was also concerned about Gabbard, but he said he would support nomination on Monday.
Almost all Democratic members on panels, except for Senator Ron Widen (D-ORE.), But stubborn privacy defenders, were skeptical about Gabard during the hearing.
The candidate used her time to explain the faces on problems such as foreign Intelligence monitoring section 702 in foreign countries.
“It is important to have a national security ability provided by section 702 that enables non -Americans overseas,” he said before, and a bill to abolish it in parliament. Gabbard, who was sponsored, said.
Gavado is now an ignorant meeting with Assad in 2017, saying, “About his own administration's actions, the use of chemical weapons, and the brutal tactics used for his own people.” I claimed it.
Tom Cotton (R-ARK), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is generally regarded as more Hawkish in foreign policy, but Gabard's FBI background check is “Whis”. He emphasized that he had revealed that it was beautiful.
Gabard was a Democratic member until 2022, but recently changed his affiliation to Republican Party last year, supporting President Trump.
“For too long, incorrect, insufficient, weapon -converted information has led to a costly failure and our national security,” Gabard said in a hearing. “One of the most obvious examples of these mistakes is the Iraqi invasion based on the comprehensive manufacturing or complete Intelligence report.”
“The re -election of President Trump is a clear mission from Americans to break this failure cycle and end weapons/politics. [intelligence communty]And we begin to recover the trust of those who have been prosecuted in the important task of securing our country. “