The enrollment of Washington-Tulsi Gabbard President Donald Trump to be the director of the National Intelligence Director approved a lead Senate committee on Tuesday, despite his previous comments and Syria’s leaders sympathetic to Russia and the leaders of Syria so far There was a meeting with.
A former Democratic Congress, one of the most divisive nominations of Gabard Trump, is one of the MPs from both sides also pointed to his previous support for government leakar Edward Snowden. But the Senate Intelligence Committee upgraded its enrollment in a closed 9-8 votes, in which the committee’s Democrats Voting No.
Gabbard’s enrollment is now head of the full Senate for consideration. One vote has not been determined yet.
After hearing a controversial confirmation last week, where some Republican Senators raised a harsh question from Gabbard, GOP support collapsed after a pressure campaign by Trump supporters and colleagues, including Alone Musk, including Alone Musk.
Until the three GOP members saw as swing votes, their support was not announced, it was not clear that their nomination would move beyond the intelligence committee. Given the strong Democratic Opposition and the thin Republican margin, Gabbard will need almost all GOP senators to vote yes to confirm the top intelligence job.
Although some Republicans have questioned Gabbard’s previous views, they support his call to overhall the office of the director of the National Intelligence, coordinating the work of 18 federal agencies focused on intelligence collections and analysis. GOP MPs have also targeted in the office, saying that it is very big and political.
Tom Cotton, president of the Arkansas Republican, Senate Intelligence, said on Tuesday that he was ready to work with Gabbard to bring “badly essential reforms” for Odney.
The Gabard National Guard has a lieutenant colonel who posted twice in the Middle East and fled to the President in 2020. They have no formal intelligence experience, however, and have never run a government agency or department.
Snowden’s praise for Gabbard’s past attracted especially harsh questions during the nomination hearing. Russia fled to Russia after allegations of disclosing classified information about the former National Security Agency’s contractors monitoring programs.
Gabard said that while Snowden revealed important facts about monitoring programs, he believes that they are unconstitutional, they violated the rules about protecting classified mysteries. “Edward Snowden broke the law,” he said.
The 2017 trip with Syrian President Bashar Assad is another flash point. Asad was recently removed after a cruel civil war that accused him of using chemical weapons. After her visit, Gabbard faced criticism that she was legalizing a dictator and then more questions when she said that Assad had used chemical weapons.
Gabbard defended his meeting with Asad, saying that he used an opportunity to suppress the Syrian leader on his human rights record.
He has also repeatedly echoed Russian propaganda, which was used to justify Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and opposed a major American surveillance program in the past.
Democrats said Gabbard’s response to questions about his previous views made him very low to satisfy him. Arizona’s Democratic Sen Mark Kelly said Gabard lacks a job decision which is very important for the security of the country.
Kelly explained her vote, saying in a statement, “Healthy doubt is a good thing, but when a person constantly embraces sensational, but poorly supported claims, dismissing the intense assessment of our intelligence community, it is dangerous. Goes, “Kelly said in a statement explaining her vote. “But instead of reducing my concerns, he confirmed them.”
In the latest example of “Make America Great Again” base pressure senators to support Trump’s nominations, Musk made Republican Sen to Young of Indiana as “deep-state puppet” as “deep-state puppet” Blowed into And Musk later called him a colleague.
The youth, whose important question of Gabbard, inspired the speculation that he could oppose him, he confirmed on Tuesday that he would return Gabard. Young said that his difficult questions for Gabbard were part of this process.
“I have imagined for the firms to the senators: to find firm using the consultative process to find firm commitments, the commitments in this case that will carry forward our national security,” he announced his support for Gabbard. Wrote in