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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:30 AM Dec 6

Former US officials alarmed over Tulsi Gabbard's alleged 'sympathy for dictators'

Source: The Guardian

Thu 5 Dec 2024 17.43 EST


Nearly 100 former US diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have called for the Senate to hold closed-door briefings on Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence for her alleged “sympathy for dictators like Vladimir Putin and [Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad]” and other concerns.

In an open letter, the officials blasted Tulsi Gabbard, a former presidential candidate and representative from Hawaii, for her lack of experience in the field of intelligence, embracing conspiracy theories regarding the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and “aligning herself with Russian and Syrian officials” after an “uncoordinated” meeting with Assad in Damascus in 2017.

The letter was signed by the former deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman, the former Nato deputy secretary general Rose Gottemoeller, the former national security adviser Anthony Lake, as well as a number of other former ambassadors, intelligence and military officers, and other high-ranking members of the national security apparatus.

It was addressed to the current Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and to the incoming majority leader John Thune, a Republican.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/intelligence-security-officials-tulsi-gabbard

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Former US officials alarmed over Tulsi Gabbard's alleged 'sympathy for dictators' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 6 OP
I hate using this word, but she is such a gold digger. Cozying up w/ a new job or new job description all in the name SWBTATTReg Dec 6 #1
She's gold digging for Jesus though. travelingthrulife Dec 6 #3
Did they miss that Trump and his entire administration have these sympathies travelingthrulife Dec 6 #2
Kick ck4829 Dec 9 #4

SWBTATTReg

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1. I hate using this word, but she is such a gold digger. Cozying up w/ a new job or new job description all in the name
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:37 AM
Dec 6

of having power w/o having to work for it, the old-fashioned way. She got tired of waiting for it when she was a wolf in a democrat's clothing before, so she switched her party affiliations to get something quicker.

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