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Now GOP Senators Want Another Trump Nominee’s Full FBI File

www.thedailybeast.com

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.

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Gabbard’s past support for Edward Snowden
Yeah, Republicans WOULD be upset about her only correct stance, even if it's a past one 🤦
- Whether or not you agree with notorious intelligence leaks, and I'm not saying I don't, it's not a great look for the Director of National Intelligence to support the leaking of sensitive intelligence documents.
  
  Well, the sensitive intelligence documents showed that the NSA was interpreting the law in a way that goes way beyond what Congress allowed.
  Having someone at the top that agrees that their department has limits regarding the US constitution is prepared to enforce those limits does NOT sound like a bad thing.
- 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?
  
  So are Trump and the Republican Party.
  
  Are you thinking of Assange?
  
  Being an American liability doesn't make you a Russian asset.
The call is coming from inside the house..
- Well, Senate, technically. But the joke was perfect.
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
  
  Apart from the fact that the transition team hasn’t signed the required paperwork to actually kick that off, sure.
  
  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.
- It normally is but there is nothing normal about any Trump presidency.
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
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  They had all three branches for two years under Trump starting in 2016 and only got the tax cuts passed, and otherwise dicked around.
But Trump said the FBI was crooked', so... Now what?
- Don't try and make sense of the crazy lunatic. You will just drive yourself crazy.
- To government bootlickers, always has been.
Tulsi Gabbard is literally in a cult. And I don't mean the GOP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation
after Gaetz dropped out i told a friend of mine that if I could have only one other person kept from the new administration, it would be Gabbard.
She is absolutely compromised, and it must be very, very deep. Whatever she afraid of, it must be massive.
Either that or she's actually turned and loves (Soviet) Russia.
- She is absolutely compromised
  I'm interested where this certainty comes from. Diplomatically worded statements and a dislike of armed conflict doesn't imply pro-Russia.
  What evidence do you expect the background report on tulsi to contain?
  
  In 2017, she visited with Assad, and then she started saying the US was behind terrorist attacks in Syria. In 2022, she accused the US of helping Ukraine develop bioweapons, and that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia was justified.
  She has parroted Russian propaganda for years now, and Russia plays clips of her doing so as "evidence" they were accurate.
  And there's the little detail that in the last few years she's changed from Democratic Presidential primary contender to far-right Kremlin-backing MAGA troll.
  At this point her not being compromised by Russia would be a shock.
Tulsi is a Kremlin asset and she qualifies as a Russian SVR RF agent!
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.

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