Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to oversee U.S. spy agencies, clears Senate committee

It's a little difficult to have good relations with an accused war criminal who unilaterally started the largest war in Europe since WWII, and whose invading hordes have been murdering, raping, torturing, obliterating, and child-abducting their way through Ukraine for almost three years.

Ah yes, it seems the intelligence propaganda machine has been very effective at convincing people that all of that is true...

Hope Tulsi will clean it up.

Yeah they are now advocating for our allies to withhold critical information for the security of our away from us.

after days of “how can Trump do that to them! They are our allies!”

guess “ally” only goes one way in liberal world.

American allies, including the Brits, will restrict their intelligence sharing.

Can she be trusted?

If I was a foreign ally of the U.S., I wouldn’t share any sensitive intelligence with them.

Another win, even for a lifelong Democrat.

Confirm her now. The attacks on her by dems as a "Russian asset" are nasty and abhorrent.

Yup.

This is simply retribution for her daring to defy the DNC years ago by not doing as she was told and instead applying her conscience to her job. No room for that in the Democrats, so they chose to smear her instead. That's why she left the party.

As an added bonus, also makes it even less credible that warmongers can continue smearing any dissenting voice as a "Russian asset".

Ah yes, it's the people who condemn Putin and Assad who are "warmongers". And Tulsi Gabbard loves peace. She loves it so much she doesn't believe Assad used chemical weapons! Those poor people all died from a simple gas leak.

Wick's pencilToday 07:35 am JST

Nothing wrong with good relations with Putin.

It's a little difficult to have good relations with an accused war criminal who unilaterally started the largest war in Europe since WWII, and whose invading hordes have been murdering, raping, torturing, obliterating, and child-abducting their way through Ukraine for almost three years.

Fortunately, this vote makes it very likely that she will be confirmed. As an added bonus, also makes it even less credible that warmongers can continue smearing any dissenting voice as a "Russian asset".

Trump's pick? More like his Master Putin's pick...

Put her in-charge and ALL our secrets go to Russia...not just the ones stolen and stored next to the toilet at MAL...

Wick's pencilToday  07:35 am JST

Not an urban legend when you've shown you think there can be good relations with Putin.

Nothing wrong with good relations with Putin. The fact that so many people think there is something wrong with it illustrates how dishonest the US intelligence is.

We were told we should listen to every word of Fuhrer Putin. The anti-Americanism is obvious.

Not an urban legend when you've shown you think there can be good relations with Putin.

Urban legend at best, she convinced Susan Collins (not an easy thing to do) that she’s not what the left and some on the right have been saying about her. She’s without a doubt an unrepentant patriot, I’m just happy she’ll be confirmed now.

 She has no formal intelligence experience, however, and has never run a government agency or department.

Trump supporters consider having absolutely no experience an actual asset, so no problem there.

A 2017 visit with Syrian President Bashar Assad is another flash point. Assad was recently deposed following a brutal civil war in which he was accused of using chemical weapons. Following her visit, Gabbard faced criticism that she was legitimizing a dictator and then more questions when she said she was skeptical that Assad had used chemical weapons.

She has also repeatedly echoed Russian propaganda used to justify the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and in the past opposed a key U.S. surveillance program.

Great news for Vladimir Putin! He will soon have another asset in the White House.

Not an urban legend when you've shown you think there can be good relations with Putin.

Nothing wrong with good relations with Putin. The fact that so many people think there is something wrong with it illustrates how dishonest the US intelligence is.

bass4funkToday  07:23 am JST

Yes, you would like a fellow Putinist.

Not surprised liberals still buy into that urban legend political myth

Not an urban legend when you've shown you think there can be good relations with Putin.

Yes, you would like a fellow Putinist.

Not surprised liberals still buy into that urban legend political myth

FizzBitToday  07:17 am JST

Stops the wars and proxy wars!

Hadn't you heard? Trump is open to making deals to get Ukraine the weapons it needs.

bass4funkToday  07:19 am JST

I knew it. Great woman, can’t wait.

Yes, you would like a fellow Putinist.

I knew it. Great woman, can’t wait.

It's very clear by now that Trump has thrown that Rep/Dem corrupt establishment Ring into the fires of Orodruin/Mt Doom. We're gonna see a lot of winning and drying in the next year or so, so be it.

Stops the wars and proxy wars!

JJEToday  06:53 am JST

The attacks on her by dems as a "Russian asset" are nasty and abhorrent.

Whatever they are they are plausible. The intelligence community should not mess around with even the whiff of russia or China in the air.

Confirm her now. The attacks on her by dems as a "Russian asset" are nasty and abhorrent.

Everyone who has ever met her likes here: the only people who don't like her are some dems, which says more about them than it does her. The are continuing the DNC/Clinton vendetta with their nasty smears and making themselves look foolish in the process.