Summary
Republican senators are privately pushing to review Tulsi Gabbard’s FBI file amid concerns about her alignment with Russian interests following her nomination as Trump’s director of national intelligence.
Gabbard’s past support for Edward Snowden, who leaked U.S. state secrets, has drawn particular scrutiny, as has her history of echoing Russian talking points on Ukraine and Syria.
While GOP senators are publicly deferring to Trump’s pick, some, including Sens. Mike Rounds and Susan Collins, emphasize the importance of full background checks and hearings to address potential security risks.
Gabbard’s past support for Edward Snowden
Yeah, Republicans WOULD be upset about her only correct stance, even if it’s a past one 🤦
face it man, Snowden is a Russian asset at this point.
he didn’t start out that way be given the options of tea, window, or sabotage he chose sabotage.
He’s a survivor.
What would you have done differently than him? Die?
Quietly quit because his whistle was never going to stop that kind of surveillance. If you held a gun to my head and said I had to leak then NYTimes and WaPo would get the relevant slide deck and I’d stand my day in court knowing I’d probably have my sentence commuted after several years.
He chose the literal worst option.
Are you thinking of Assange?
no. Assange cares only for Assange.
Snowden cared about Americans once, but was abandoned by his nation to a corrupt government.
he’s an unwilling Russian asset now, think of it like indentured servitude for his life.
Are you able to point to actions that Snowden has taken to negatively impact the interests of the US people or to materially aid Russia?
no, and I don’t have to.
It is my opinion after all.
we’re allowed to share those on here still, right?
It’s not unreasonable to ask someone to elaborate or justify their opinion, kiddo.
and it’s not unreasonable for someone to refuse.
The Senate receiving every bit of intelligence on a nominee from every government organization should be a requirement. If there’s a national security issue with disclosure to the general assembly, that information should still go to the committees/Senators that have those clearances, like the Intelligence Committee.
“Although FBI file reviews are standard for presidential cabinet candidates…”
I don’t disagree with you, but this is a non-story. The committee asks for and receives this information as a matter of course
Trump wanted the Senate to just take a recess so he could make all his appointments without oversight.
That was never going to happen unless he allowed The Heritage Foundation to choose the cabinet and the Federalist Society to choose the judges. But Gaetz, Hegseth, and Gabbard made the request laughable.
Apart from the fact that the transition team hasn’t signed the required paperwork to actually kick that off, sure.
The fucker won’t sign it either. It will go to inauguration and he will proclaim its not needed by executive decision.
He can’t. It’s the Senate’s choice.
And what if he just ignores the Senate? Who is going to stop him?
Impeachment. They can impeach all of his appointments, and ultimately him. If he continues to ignore them then we’ll get to see him forcibly removed from office.
If everyone ignores Congress then we have a Constitutional Crisis that will likely result in the end of American Democracy. In the Constitution the President has the least amount of authority.
i love that he won’t even be in office for a couple more months and they’re already eating each other
I really hope the infighting completely paralyzes them or at least slows down the fascism
Unfortunately, incompetence and infighting haven’t slowed fascism much in the past. Recklessness fuelled by ignorance actually makes autocrats more dangerous, not less.
For example: Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show.
The parallels are uncanny.
My thoughts too. I prefer non functional over fascist functional.
Though it looks like people around him this time are expecting to be able to manipulate him and to have a real power.
Another concern is that he likely replace Thomas and Alito with younger ones, basically cementing this corrupted makeup.
I could see Alito retiring for party over country but Thomas is too self-serving, he’d have to die to give up the free money position.
He better book his rooms on the ground floor for the next 4 years then, or else a certain somebody might try his overlord’s favorite trick.
Nah Trump doesn’t care about the long-term that way. So long as he votes for Trump’s side in every case.
They had all three branches for two years under Trump starting in 2016 and only got the tax cuts passed, and otherwise dicked around.
ACA repeal was only after a surprise vote by John McCain. Before that it was assumed to go through. I’m not so sure it won’t be replaced this Congress with “concepts of a plan”
The call is coming from inside the house…
Marco Rubio is on the Intelligence Committee, yeah?
Dude wants to be Sect. Of State so damn bad he’s throwing all those Alphabets directly under a speeding Lada.
So supporting Snowden is a bad thing now?
To government bootlickers, always has been.
Quit being concerned quietly in private and freak the fuck out loudly like the rest of us, you fuckheads! Why do you keep choosing the most shit-filled route and then saying that the amount of shit you have to wade through gives you pause.
