Is Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk

[sparky]

The Q should be not how Gabbard deals with Arabia , the Q should be how much AIPAC influence should she employ to do so.....~S~

 

[Woodznutz]

Oh wonderful…

Most government agencies are on autopilot (or asleep at the switch) most of the time.

 

[Lesh]

Most government agencies are on autopilot (or asleep at the switch) most of the time.

Really. And you base that on what?

 

[TNHarley]

So Assad was a direct threat to America?

War mongering pieces of shit gotta war monger

 

[Woodznutz]

Really. And you base that on what?

The product that they produce or fail to produce. For example, HHS and its agencies have produced a nation of overweight, obese, sick, people.

 

[Woodznutz]

She's not gonna have the job for the next 5 decades.

A recently hired president of an auto company was asked what he knew about producing cars. He answered, "I don't have to know how to make cars. I hire people that know how to make cars."

 

[Lesh]

The product that they produce or fail to produce. For example, HHS and its agencies have produced a nation of overweight, obese, sick, people.

So you think we're overweight because the government tells us to eat garbage?

What crazy horseshit that is

 

[Woodznutz]

So you think we're overweight because the government tells us to eat garbage?

What crazy horseshit that is

HHS has abandoned its duty to guide us to good health. "A child left to his own devices will get into trouble." Regarding our health, we have been left to our own devices. Even the healthcare industry has abandoned us.

 

[Lesh]

HHS has abandoned its duty to guide us to good health. "A child left to his own devices will get into trouble." Regarding our health, we have been left to our own devices.

WTF are you babbling about?

 

[Woodznutz]

WTF are you babbling about?

Just answering your question.

 

[jc456]

Will you be repeating that talking point when the consequences are awful?

sure, the swamp creatures are crawling out of the water and can't stop squealing.

 

[jc456]

WTF are you babbling about?

Did you read the post? What is it you can't understand?

 

[SmokeALib]

If Tulsi Gabbard was blonde, you'd call her an airhead. This is the woman who visited with Bashar al Assad and came back to America to declare that he is not an enemy. And she must be Putins mistress.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created after 9/11 to remedy what American policy makers believed was a lack of coordination among the various national-intelligence agencies, and the DNI sits atop all of America’s intelligence services, including the CIA.

Gabbard is stunningly unqualified for almost any Cabinet post (as are some of Trump’s other picks), but especially for ODNI. She has no qualifications as an intelligence professional—literally none. (She is a reserve lieutenant colonel who previously served in the Hawaii Army National Guard, with assignments in medical, police, and civil-affairs-support positions. She has won some local elections and also represented Hawaii in Congress.) She has no significant experience directing or managing much of anything.

But leave aside for the moment that she is manifestly unprepared to run any kind of agency. Americans usually accept that presidents reward loyalists with jobs, and Trump has the right to stash Gabbard at some make-work office in the bureaucracy if he feels he owes her. It’s not a pretty tradition, but it’s not unprecedented, either.

To make Tulsi Gabbard the DNI, however, is not merely handing a bouquet to a political gadfly. Her appointment would be a threat to the security of the United States.

Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, attempting to position herself as something like a peace candidate. But she’s no peacemaker: She’s been an apologist for both the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Her politics, which are otherwise incoherent, tend to be sympathetic to these two strongmen, painting America as the problem and the dictators as misunderstood. Hawaii voters have long been perplexed by the way she’s positioned herself politically. But Gabbard is a classic case of “horseshoe” politics: Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson—a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now—have taken a liking to the former Democrat (who was previously a Republican and is now again a member of the GOP).

In early 2017, while still a member of Congress, Gabbard met with Assad, saying that peace in Syria was only possible if the international community would have a conversation with him. “Let the Syrian people themselves determine their future, not the United States, not some foreign country,” Gabbard said, after chatting with a man who had stopped the Syrian people from determining their own future by using chemical weapons on them. Two years later, she added that Assad was “not the enemy of the United States, because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States,” and that her critics were merely “warmongers.”

Gabbard’s shilling for Assad is a mystery, but she’s even more dedicated to carrying Putin’s water. Tom Rogan, a conservative writer and hardly a liberal handwringer, summed up her record succinctly in the Washington Examiner today:

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk

The Senate can stop her.

www.theatlantic.com

Not sure about Gabby yet - but diaper joe and camela certainly are.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

What is socialist Gabbard's intelligence background?

I'll wait here.

The current DNI is Avril Haines. In college she studied physics, and later, law. After working in the government as a legal advisor on treaties, she was appointed by Obama to Deputy Director of the CIA, despite having no background in intelligence. You never complained about that. So being an administrator doesn't require an intelligence background.

 

[Crepitus]

A recently hired president of an auto company was asked what he knew about producing cars. He answered, "I don't have to know how to make cars. I hire people that know how to make cars."

Does he know how not to be a national security risk?

If so lets get him instead!

 

[nobody_important]

Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. He has served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House and the U.S. Senate. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world.

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic

Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a contributor to the Atlantic Daily newsletter.

www.theatlantic.com

Tom Nichols (academic) - Wikipedia

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Quite the rap sheet. Another career academic who hasn't produced a single thing of value in his entire lifetime. I am rapidly losing trust in this class. Especially when I see "Harvard" in the credentials. This tells me I should not believe this person at all. Trump's coming for your endowments. The curtain will be ripped down. Academic bloodsuckers' days are numbered. I have zero respect for career academics. I have respect for people like Elon Musk who create futuristic cars and launch rockets into space. People who actually do, rather write and talk. Tom Nichols has zero impact. Tom Nichols is a parasite.

 

[IM2]

Quite the rap sheet. Another career academic who hasn't produced a single thing of value in his entire lifetime. I am rapidly losing trust in this class. Especially when I see "Harvard" in the credentials. This tells me I should not believe this person at all. Trump's coming for your endowments. The curtain will be ripped down. Academic bloodsuckers' days are numbered. I have zero respect for career academics. I have respect for people like Elon Musk who create futuristic cars and launch rockets into space. People who actually do, rather write and talk. Tom Nichols has zero impact. Tom Nichols is a parasite.

If you want to stay stupid thats on you. Musk is a result of career academics. Knowledge is value. He has produced more value than Musk.

 

[Woodznutz]

Quite the rap sheet. Another career academic who hasn't produced a single thing of value in his entire lifetime. I am rapidly losing trust in this class. Especially when I see "Harvard" in the credentials. This tells me I should not believe this person at all. Trump's coming for your endowments. The curtain will be ripped down. Academic bloodsuckers' days are numbered. I have zero respect for career academics. I have respect for people like Elon Musk who create futuristic cars and launch rockets into space. People who actually do, rather write and talk. Tom Nichols has zero impact. Tom Nichols is a parasite.

"It's the man in the arena." -Teddy Roosvelt

 

[Oddball]

 

[CrazyTrader55]

If Tulsi Gabbard was blonde, you'd call her an airhead. This is the woman who visited with Bashar al Assad and came back to America to declare that he is not an enemy. And she must be Putins mistress.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created after 9/11 to remedy what American policy makers believed was a lack of coordination among the various national-intelligence agencies, and the DNI sits atop all of America’s intelligence services, including the CIA.

Gabbard is stunningly unqualified for almost any Cabinet post (as are some of Trump’s other picks), but especially for ODNI. She has no qualifications as an intelligence professional—literally none. (She is a reserve lieutenant colonel who previously served in the Hawaii Army National Guard, with assignments in medical, police, and civil-affairs-support positions. She has won some local elections and also represented Hawaii in Congress.) She has no significant experience directing or managing much of anything.

But leave aside for the moment that she is manifestly unprepared to run any kind of agency. Americans usually accept that presidents reward loyalists with jobs, and Trump has the right to stash Gabbard at some make-work office in the bureaucracy if he feels he owes her. It’s not a pretty tradition, but it’s not unprecedented, either.

To make Tulsi Gabbard the DNI, however, is not merely handing a bouquet to a political gadfly. Her appointment would be a threat to the security of the United States.

Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, attempting to position herself as something like a peace candidate. But she’s no peacemaker: She’s been an apologist for both the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Her politics, which are otherwise incoherent, tend to be sympathetic to these two strongmen, painting America as the problem and the dictators as misunderstood. Hawaii voters have long been perplexed by the way she’s positioned herself politically. But Gabbard is a classic case of “horseshoe” politics: Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson—a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now—have taken a liking to the former Democrat (who was previously a Republican and is now again a member of the GOP).

In early 2017, while still a member of Congress, Gabbard met with Assad, saying that peace in Syria was only possible if the international community would have a conversation with him. “Let the Syrian people themselves determine their future, not the United States, not some foreign country,” Gabbard said, after chatting with a man who had stopped the Syrian people from determining their own future by using chemical weapons on them. Two years later, she added that Assad was “not the enemy of the United States, because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States,” and that her critics were merely “warmongers.”

Gabbard’s shilling for Assad is a mystery, but she’s even more dedicated to carrying Putin’s water. Tom Rogan, a conservative writer and hardly a liberal handwringer, summed up her record succinctly in the Washington Examiner today:

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk

The Senate can stop her.

www.theatlantic.com

Fake News. You just don't like women of color.
Now go to your room for a time out.