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She’s In! Tulsi Confirmed as DNI

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By Breitbart. Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed by the United States Senate as the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Wednesday morning as President Donald Trump’s 14th cabinet victory since reentering office.

The former Democrat Hawaii congresswoman received a 52-48 vote, with Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY) joining Democrats against her.

Shortly before the final vote, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he was “proud” to say that every single Democrat would vote against her, claiming she “echoes Russian propaganda.”

Sen. John Barasso (R-WY) was one of Gabbard’s most vocal supporters in the Senate, saying ahead of the vote that she has the necessary “experience to keep our nation safe and secure”:

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Trump Lands Key Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Following Uphill Senate Battle

By Fox News. President Donald Trump continued his successful Cabinet confirmation roll on Wednesday, with Tulsi Gabbard officially being approved by the Senate to become his director of national intelligence (DNI).

She became his 14th Cabinet confirmation following the 52-48 vote on Wednesday. The vote was party-line, with the exception of former GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who opposed Gabbard.

Despite an uphill battle before her first hurdle in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the former Democratic representative managed to come back and get key Republicans to support her in her bid to oversee the nation’s intelligence agencies.

With the coordinated and persuasive assistance of Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Vice President JD Vance, crucial senators who had lingering concerns about Gabbard were convinced to back her in the crucial committee vote last week, including Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Todd Young, R-Ind.

Her success came despite the impassioned plea of Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., and Democrats, who all opposed Trump’s DNI pick. (Read more from “Trump Lands Key Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Following Uphill Senate Battle” HERE)

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Critics Claim She’s Unqualified — Despite ‘Massive Failures’ Of Her More ‘Experienced’ Predecessors

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Tulsi Gabbard’s skeptics in the Senate have questioned her qualifications for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), but past DNIs who were confirmed with bipartisan support oversaw flagrant civil liberties abuses and major intelligence failures.

Many of the Democrats, and even some of the Republicans, who have expressed skepticism toward Gabbard supported her predecessors in the Biden and Obama administrations.

Gabbard’s harshest opponent, Virginia Democrat and vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Mark Warner, implied in his opening statement that she may be legally unqualified for the position. The DNI is required to have “extensive national security expertise,” Warner said.

Gabbard is a Lieutenant Colonel in the National Guard, and she served in the Army National Guard for over twenty years where she was deployed to Iraq and Kuwait. Gabbard also served on the House Armed Services committee as a member of Congress from 2013 to 2021.

Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has been notably silent on Gabbard’s nomination. He was also one of the Republicans who voted against confirming Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. (Read more from “Tulsi Gabbard’s Critics Claim She’s Unqualified — Despite ‘Massive Failures’ Of Her More ‘Experienced’ Predecessors” HERE)

Tulsi Gabbard Secures Shock Senate Endorsement, Drastically Increasing Chance Of Confirmation

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Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins announced Monday she will support President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) nominee, Tulsi Gabbard.

“After extensive consideration of her nomination, I will support Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence,” she said in a statement. “As one of the principal authors of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 that established this coordinating position, I understand the critical role the DNI plays in the Intelligence community.”

Sen. Collins noted that she shared an area of agreement with Gabbard.

“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, however, has become far larger than it was designed to be, and Ms. Gabbard shares my vision of returning the agency to its intended size,” Collins said.

“In response to my questions during our discussion in my office and at the open hearing, as well as through her explanation at the closed hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ms. Gabbard addressed my concerns regarding her views on Edward Snowden. I took forward to working with Ms. Gabbard to strengthen our national security.” (Read more from “Tulsi Gabbard Secures Shock Senate Endorsement, Drastically Increasing Chance Of Confirmation” HERE)

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‘I Refuse to Be Their Puppet’: Greatest Hits From Tulsi Gabbard Firing Back at Democrats During Nomination Battle

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Tulsi Gabbard faced a fierce grilling from Senate Democrats at her confirmation hearing, but she showed that she was more than willing to fight back just as hard.

Gabbard was handpicked by President Donald Trump to serve as director of national intelligence, but Democrats attempted to dredge up past statements to derail the nomination this past week.

Gabbard took on the main criticism against her during her opening statement when she attacked the notion that she had been the puppet of foreign interests.

“I want to warn the American people who are watching at home: You may hear lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my loyalty to and my love for our country,” she said.

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Dozens of Former Intel Officials Urge Senators to Confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence

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Dozens of top former intelligence officials are urging members of the Senate to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, saying she will “begin undoing the gross politicization that has come to characterize intelligence bureaucracies,” Fox News Digital has learned.

Former White House National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, Navy SEAL veteran and member of the intelligence community Erik Prince and more than four dozen other former intelligence officials penned a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., on Monday, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.

“We, the undersigned former intelligence and national security officials, urge members of the United States Senate to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence,” they wrote. “Her service as DNI will begin undoing the gross politicization that has come to characterize intelligence bureaucracies, which has been to the great detriment of the freedom and security of the United States and its citizens.”

The officials said Gabbard’s experience “more than qualifies her for this important position.”

Gabbard is a military officer with more than 20 years of service and multiple combat deployments. She also served in the U.S. House of Representatives for eight years and served on numerous national security committees. (Read more from “Dozens of Former Intel Officials Urge Senators to Confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence” HERE)

NYT Uses Anonymous Terrorist Sources For Latest Deep State Hit On Tulsi Gabbard

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The New York Times is preparing to publish a deep state hit piece on President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The piece is purportedly based on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance of a pair of anonymous terrorists.

Two people familiar with the matter told The Federalist the Times will accuse Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, of meeting with then-Lebanese Hezbollah Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah on a Middle East trip in 2017. The paper of “all the news that’s fit to print” is expected to run the deep state smear against Gabbard as early as Tuesday afternoon, two days before a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Bernard Hudson, who was director of counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2016 and 2017, called the story by the Times, “one of the most bizarre allegations against a serving member of the U.S. military I have ever heard.”

“It strains credulity at every level,” Hudson told The Federalist.

“This is the kind of cheap skullduggery for which the Deep State has become infamous with the American people,” said Dave Reaboi, a national security expert and fellow at the Claremont Institute. “We entrust these people with tremendous power to operate in the shadows and keep secrets from us, imagining that they are professionals dedicated to safeguarding our national security. Instead, many of the IC’s senior leadership have undermined the faith we placed in them, using the capabilities their profession affords them to make war on their domestic political opponents.” (Read more from “NYT Uses Anonymous Terrorist Sources For Latest Deep State Hit On Tulsi Gabbard” HERE)

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While Democrats Slow-Walk Tulsi Gabbard’s Confirmation, The Acting DNI Will Be A Pro-DEI Biden Appointee

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A Biden appointee who advocated for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the intelligence community will reportedly serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence while the White House awaits Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation for the job.

Stacey Dixon, former Principal Deputy Director of DNI, was tapped by the Trump transition team to serve as acting DNI, Politico reported. Dixon was appointed to principal deputy DNI by Joe Biden, but she also served in the intelligence community during the Trump administration.

Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing for DNI has yet to be scheduled by the Senate. Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had not yet met with Gabbard as recently as two weeks ago, weeks after Gabbard had been announced as Trump’s pick.

A source alleged to the Caller that the top Democrat on the committee, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, had taken more than a month to reply to an email from Gabbard’s team and that he was preventing the other Democrats on the committee from meeting with the nominee. Warner claimed Gabbard was not up to date on her paperwork, while Gabbard’s team accused the Democrats of “playing politics.”

While sources familiar with the transition told the outlet that Dixon was seen as “less partisan” than deputy DNI for mission integration Morgan Muir, Dixon has made DEI a focal point in the past.

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Tucker Carlson Says Any GOP Senator Who Votes ‘Against Tulsi Gabbard’s Confirmation’ Is ‘Enemy Of The United States’

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Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson said Thursday that any Republican Senator who ends up voting against confirming former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as President-elect Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is America’s “enemy.”

Trump picked Gabbard to be his DNI on Nov. 13, but the former congresswoman and member of the National Guard has faced backlash from numerous national security officials that are tied to groups targeting “election misinformation,” left-wing organizations, intelligence agencies and defense contractors. Carlson, during his speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, argued that Republican senators who vote against Gabbard are signalling opposition to meaningful government reform.

“She is the critical appointment because she has the ability to declassify the truth about what your government has been doing in your name with your money for decades. No one doubts that Tulsi Gabbard’s a patriotic person. She’s an army officer,” Carlson said. “She served in the U.S. military for 20 years … By the way, if she was a foreign agent, how exactly is she carrying a gun in the U.S. military? It’s absurd. You will know who’s on which side by the reaction to Tulsi Gabbard.” (Read more from “Tucker Carlson Says Any GOP Senator Who Votes ‘Against Tulsi Gabbard’s Confirmation’ Is ‘Enemy Of The United States'” HERE)

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Democrats Ramp Up Their Criticism of Tulsi Gabbard

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Now that former congressman Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is no longer a threat to Democrats, they are on to the next one in President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet.

On Sunday, Democrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) warned viewers on CNN that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is “compromised” and is like a “Russian asset.”

Host Dana Bash asked Duckworth, who served with Gabbard in the House, what she thought of the former Democrat, accusing her of promoting Russian propaganda.

“Well, I think she’s compromised,” Duckworth began. “I think by going to Syria and basically um, backing you know, a brutal dictator there. I mean Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset. So I do think that we have a real deep concern whether or not she’s a compromised person.”

She claimed that the U.S. Intelligence community has identified Gabbard of having “troubling relationships with America’s foes,” accusing her of not being able to pass a background check. (Read more from “Democrats Ramp Up Their Criticism of Tulsi Gabbard” HERE)

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Trump Selects Tulsi For Role In Administration

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President-elect Donald Trump appointed former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence for his second administration in a Wednesday statement.

Gabbard, a former Hawaii congresswoman and member of the National Guard, left the Democratic party in 2022. In the 2024 election cycle, Gabbard endorsed Trump and became a surrogate on the campaign trail as she helped him with debate preparation. Trump wrote that Gabbard will bring a “fearless spirit” to the intelligence community to help secure “Peace through Strength.”

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