Former US officials alarmed over Tulsi Gabbard’s alleged ‘sympathy for dictators’
Official blast Trump's national intelligence director pick for lack of experience and for embracing conspiracy theories
Nearly 100 former US diplomats, intelligence and national security officials have called for the Senate to hold closed-door briefings on Donald Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence for her alleged sympathy for dictators like Vladimir Putin and [Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad]" and other concerns.
In an open letter, the officials blasted Tulsi Gabbard, a former presidential candidate and congresswoman from Hawaii, for her lack of experience in the field of intelligence, embracing conspiracy theories regarding the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and for aligning herself with Russian and Syrian officials" after an uncoordinated" meeting with Assad in Damascus in 2017.
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