Ms. Gabbard, a former congresswoman who left the Democratic Party, would hold a top job in the administration, overseeing 18 spy agencies.

Summary

Democratic senators have raised concerns over Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence, citing her past meetings with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and her embrace of Russian talking points.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Gabbard shared a video echoing a false Kremlin claim that the U.S. was funding biological weapons labs in Ukraine.

A former Democratic congresswoman and critic of U.S. foreign policy, Gabbard recently joined the Republican Party and would now oversee 18 intelligence agencies and prepare the President’s Daily Brief.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    As Stephen Colbert used to say, reality has a Russian bias.

    Do you mean when he was a fake conservative on a show making fun of Fox News?

    You do know that show was all fake, right?

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
      46·
      1 day ago

      his actual quote is “reality has a liberal bias”. Liberal used to be inclusive of anti-war, and included non-suicidal respect for Russia.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            22·
            1 day ago

            Nice word salad there, but you still dishonestly put your words in his mouth and attributed them to him.

            Also, taking out a letter doesn’t make your bigoted ableism any less bigoted.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                21·
                24 hours ago

                That wasn’t a paraphrase because his quote had nothing to do with Russia and never did. I have no idea why you’re going down this pathetic “what are you going to believe, me or your own eyes” road.