Washington DC -President Donald Trump’s candidate, Tarushi Gabard, was a member of the United States of the United States, about her past status, including the support of whistleblower Edward Snowden. I am doing it.
In the Thursday confirmation hearing, the Senator baked Gabbard while visiting Syria in 2017 and met President Batar Al-Assad at the time.
Gabard, a former Democratic member of Hawaii, opposes the intervening foreign policy.
She ran into the president in 2020, and two years later she quit the Democratic Party and accused it as a “warmer eliteist.”
She later started a campaign for Republican candidates, including Trump.
If confirmed, Gabbard will be the chief of the US Intelligence Community, which consists of 18 institutions, including FBI and CIA. She will also easily advise the president about security issues.
Gabard is one of many controversies that Trump has appointed an important position. However, Republican members with a majority of 53 seats with 100 members are expected to confirm all the choices of Trump.
Gabard faced her first test as a candidate in front of a skeptical member of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. The following is an important point from the hearing.
Snowden, Snowden, Snowden
Even a few Democrats and Republican members on the panel have revealed the past statement of Gabard, which supports Snonden, a contractor of the former National Security Bureau, which leaked documents about the US government’s large -scale monitoring program. 。
In 2020, the US court found that the monitoring exposed by Snoden, including collecting telephone records, was illegal.
Snoden, who first fled to Hong Kong, was paid in Russia after the US government canceled his passport.
Gavado had previously called Snowden a “brave” whistleblower, but in 2020 he co -sponsored a resolution of a house that encouraged the US government to withdraw all accusations against Snoden.
On Thursday, Gabard actively asked about his position. Democratic Senator Michael Bennett asked several times if he regarded Snowden as a traitor.
Former member of the Diet rejected that. She emphasized that Snoden had broken the law and did not blame him completely, but he walked on a narrow line by emphasizing that he did not agree with his actions.
“The fact is that even when he broke the law, he released information that reveals a terrible, illegal and illegal program,” she said.
Gavard, who worked for the US military and remained the reserve, emphasized that she had never leaked secret information.
Earlier on Thursday, Snowden suggested that Gabard should deny him to secure her confirmation.
“Tell them that I have hurt national security and sweet and soft staff,” he wrote on social media posts. “In DC, it passes by for loyalty pledges.”
TULSI Gabbard must deny all pre -support for whistleblower as a confirmation condition today. I recommend to her. Tell them that they have hurt the national security and the sweet and soft staff’s emotions. In DC, it passes by for loyalty pledges. pic.twitter.com/z1omohgvdu
-Adwards Snowden (@snowden) January 30, 2025
Al Assad Conference
Another problem that continued to re -emerge during the hearing was a trip to Gabard to Syria and Lebanon in 2017.
Gabard met Al Asado when the United States was calling on him to resign to him to resign the government.
“I asked him a tough question about his own administration’s actions, the use of chemical weapons, and the brutal tactics used for his own people,” she said.
Gabard also refused to talk with Hizbola officials while in Lebanon.
When asked if Al -Asado had a good decision, Gavad said Jesus.
“I can get great benefits by listening to people, whether you are in Congress or the US president, the leader goes to the ground and involves boots, and listening directly with people, whether you are an enemy or a friend. She believes, “she said. 。
Gavad said that her main concern was the “extremist” Syrian rebels.
Former member of the Diet also accused a new leader in Syria, composed of former rebel forces that defeated the Al -Asado government in December.
She explained the collapse of Al Assad as “a sudden acquisition of Syria by Islamic militants.”
Hayat Tahalir Al Sham (HTS), the main rebellion group that captured Damascus last year, had a connection with Al Qaeda. HTS leader, Amead Al Shala, is now a transient president of Syria.
The United States used to provide rewards for capturing Alshala, but was canceled in December after US authorities visited him in Damascus.
Protand message
At the beginning of her, Gavard nodded to the president who nominated her, amplifying Trump’s claim that he was targeted by the Intelligence official for political reasons.
She called on a foreign monitoring decree that the authorities were monitoring Trump, as the authorities investigated the relationship between Trump Campaign and Russia before the 2016 elections.
“Americans have elected Donald Trump as president, but have been elected twice,” she said.
“However, the FBI and the Intelligence report have been politicized by his opponents to weaken his presidential position and accidentally describe it as a Putin doll.”
She tells Trump the discovery of “prejudice” and says that “weaponized” intelligence can lead to terrible results. Gabard quoted the US -led Iraqi invasion in 2003. This was based on a false report that the country has a large amount of destruction weapons.
“This miserable decision is the tens of thousands of American soldiers, millions of people in the Middle East, massive immigration, instability, weakness of European allies, the rise of ISIS, and the rise of al -Qaeda. She died, and she said other Muslims and Iran.
