
Senate Confirms Tulsi Gabbard As Trump's Director Of National Intelligence
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence after months of contentious debate about her record, as Republicans initially skeptical about her nomination folded amid public pressure from the president’s MAGA allies. “It would befit you and be helpful to the way you are perceived to the members of the Intelligence Committee if you at least acknowledge that the greatest whistleblower in American security —so-called — harmed national security,” Sen. Todd Young told Gabbard during her confirmation hearing earlier this month, after she refused to sufficiently condemn Snowden. Musk, the Tesla CEO and Trump ally, at one point accused Young of being a “deep state puppet.” But Musk recanted shortly after Young got on the phone with him at the urging of Vice President JD Vance, Young’s onetime Senate colleague, who has worked behind the scenes to assuage GOP holdouts on other Trump Cabinet picks. In voting against Gabbard, however, McConnell, the longtime former GOP Senate leader, argued the Senate ought to reject any nominee whose “record proves them unworthy of the highest public trust” and whose “command of relevant policy falls short of the requirements of their office.” All Democrats opposed Gabbard’s nomination, calling her uniquely unqualified for the position and warning that she would put U.S. national security at risk.
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