Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic lawmaker who has since turned MAGA, is helping her boss President Donald Trump try to rewrite the history of 2016 to match his preferred talking points. On Friday, Gabbard called for the Obama administration to be “prosecuted to the fullest extent …
Read More »'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
After President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons. Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National …
Read More »Trump Could Get Fox News-Style Intel Briefings Because He 'Doesn't Read': Report
President Donald Trump’s National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard is looking for ways to change the president’s intelligence briefings to align with his media consumption habits and gain his trust, possibly adopting a video format, NBC News reports. Gabbard has apparently consulted current and former intelligence officials for solutions. One possibility …
Read More »Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top two National Intelligence Council officials just weeks after the NIC wrote an intelligence report rebuking some of the Trump administration’s claims about the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. According to a Wednesday report from Fox News, Gabbard fired National Intelligence …
Read More »Dems Slam Trump Intel Chiefs to Their Faces Over Group-Chat Fiasco
“Deliberations should be conducted through classified channels,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Tuesday. He was speaking during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee that took place just a day after The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeff Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a group chat in …
Read More »Republicans Confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard — the one-time Democratic representative turned Fox News pundit and Trump loyalist — is the latest of the president’s Cabinet picks to clear the confirmation process despite a lack of qualifications and uniquely troubling views. Gabbard will serve as his Director of National Intelligence, a position in which …
Read More »Gabbard Doesn't Exactly Ease Concerns That She's Sympathetic to Russia
Donald Trump nominated a troubling collection of loyalists to occupy some of the most consequential administration positions. Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for Director of National Intelligence, is uniquely concerning. The former Democratic congresswoman served overseas but has no intelligence experience, has been criticized for meeting with since-deposed Syrian President Bashar …
Read More »Ex-Aides Say Gabbard Regularly Consumed Russian State Media: Report
Donald Trump has already lost a Cabinet pick and is reconsidering a second, but they say bad news comes in threes, and Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard may be the next uphill confirmation battle for the incoming president. Gabbard — a former Democratic representative from Hawaii who turned …
Read More »How Trump Could Remake the CIA
Political interference, mind control, domestic spying, and generally speaking, making America worse (again). These are just some of the many grievances Donald Trump and his allies have leveled against the intelligence community in recent months. They have been repeated on podcasts, on YouTube shows, and at rallies since Trump began …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump is 'Running the Country Like It Is a Reality Show'
Donald Trump‘s second term hasn’t started yet, but it’s already the gift that keeps on giving to late-night show hosts. Jimmy Kimmel continued his coverage of Trump’s cabinet picks on Jimmy Kimmel Live, comparing the incoming president’s behavior to helming The Apprentice. “I have to say it has been one …
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