A pattern is emerging regarding President-elect Donald Trump's recent nominations. He announces a person who is clearly suited to carry out the campaign's successful agenda. People with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo panic. And the establishment has viciously attacked the nominee, imploring nominal Republicans in the U.S. Senate to block confirmation.
This pattern has been repeated with multiple candidates, including former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There is.
While virtually all of President Trump's nominees have caused controversy, his choice of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence has caused particular anxiety among Democratic lawmakers, liberal media, and intelligence community members. It seems like it was.
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The Atlantic's Tom Nichols rushed in.
characterize Gabbard's nomination was a “national security risk,” she previously said. proposed NATO may have had something to do Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Syria do not pose a direct threat to the United States.
“Ms. Gabbard is a classic example of 'horseshoe' politics,” Nichols warned. “Her views seem both far-left and far-right. Perhaps that's why people like Tucker Carlson (a conservative who has now come to be called the pro-Russian right) are former Democrats (formerly Republicans) But now he’s a Republican again.”
Washington Examiner Tom Logan
proposed By nominating Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Trump – whose first term was marred by a malignant counterintelligence investigation and whose 2020 political opponent was given press cover by CIA contractors and intelligence agency graduates before the election This is clearing up his distrust of intelligence agencies. It's a vital national security interest. ”
After touting Syrian and Russian-themed attacks on Gabbard and later implying that she was a sympathizer of the Chinese communist regime, Logan said that if confirmed, “all U.S. intelligence The agency's collection, analysis, and mission efforts and production and dissemination of reports and analyzes of the U.S. government's most sensitive information, including information about spies embedded deep within foreign governments and terrorist organizations.”
“This appointment is shocking here in the United States.”
Bill Kristol quotation Jonathan Rust, editor of the neocon blog Bulwark, said, “It makes no sense at all to make Gabbard the DNI…I mean, it makes no sense for America. For Russia, it makes no sense to make Gabbard the DNI. makes perfect sense to the world.”
Mr. Rust seemed particularly exasperated by Ms. Gabbard's opposition to fruitless foreign ties and ineffective U.S. sanctions.
Demons and Spooks are scared
“This appointment has sent shock waves not only here in the United States but around the world,” said John Brennan, former CIA director and former President Barack Obama's chief of counterterrorism staff.
said In a conversation with MSNBC's Nicole Wallace.
Brennan, one of the signatories of Hunter Biden's infamous “intelligence” letter, likened the 18 intelligence agencies Gabbard would oversee to an orchestra, saying she didn't even know what instruments were being played. He suggested that there is a high possibility that there will be no.
Former Bush aide John Bolton, a key proponent of America's disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq,
proposed NewsNation's “The Hill” reported that President Trump's “announcement of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence sends a signal that we have lost our minds when it comes to intelligence gathering.”
One former senior intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity.
said Politico claimed the choice was to “turn left and go off the bridge.”
Another intelligence official warned that U.S. allies, including Israel, could withhold information from Washington if Gabbard were DNI, saying, “What some allies share may be “It may be shaped by political goals rather than effective information sharing,” he added.
Same goes for anonymous “Western security sources”
proposed Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand may be less forthcoming about the information they collect, stressing to Reuters that the countries believe Trump's appointments are all tilted in the “wrong direction” did.
Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger (Virginia), a former CIA officer and current chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said:
proposed X argued that Gabbard, who served in Iraq and Kuwait, would be an oath violator.
“The men and women of the U.S. intelligence community honor their oath by gathering critical intelligence that keeps our fellow citizens safe. The global threats we face require the Director of National Intelligence to do the same. Tulsi Gabbard is not that person,” Spanberger wrote.
The former ghost seems to have echoed Nichols, unconsciously highlighting the panic on the part of the establishment.
tell The Hill, “The DNI has access to every secret America has, every piece of information we know. … It's the key to the intelligence kingdom.”
Larry Pfeiffer, a former chief of staff at the CIA during the Bush administration, told The Hill that “some of the things she's said over the years that sound like they came straight out of a Kremlin dossier are a little off-putting. This is alarming. Is someone who is close to Bashar al-Assad and an apologist for him really the right person to be in charge of this very complex and very sensitive operation, the U.S. intelligence community? It just makes you question it.”
Jamil Jaffer, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer and national security prosecutor, told The Hill: “What's unusual here is that you have someone who has been so vocal about things that are factually wrong for so long.'' “It is aid and comfort to America's adversaries, and it undermines the very people they are supposed to represent on the principals' committees.''
Like the critics of Mr. Hegseth and Mr. Gates, Ms. Gabbard's detractors appear to be defenders of the very worldview and policy practices that Mr. Trump was effectively elected to eliminate.
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