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Gabbard’s Senate Critics Are More Interested In Protecting America’s Spy Agencies Than Fixing ThemTulsi Gabbard is absolutely right to be skeptical of the vast surveillance powers wielded by America’s intel apparatus.31 Jan 2025 ~~ By Shawn Fleetwood![]()
Gabbard's Critics Aren't Interested In Fixing US Spy Agencies
Tulsi Gabbard is absolutely right to be skeptical of the vast surveillance powers wielded by America's intel apparatus.thefederalist.com
President Trump’s pick to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has never been shy about sharing her criticisms of America’s surveillance state. So, it came as no surprise when some of its biggest defenders grilled her on the subject during her Thursday Senate confirmation hearing.
While testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Gabbard was repeatedly pressed by senators to offer a full-throated defense of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which intel agencies abused to spy on unsuspecting Americans and surveil Trump’s 2016 campaign.
As The Federalist’s Logan Washburn recently reported, “Section 702 of the legislation allows federal agencies to collect communications of noncitizens, outside the country, without a warrant.” It furthermore “supposedly bars the government from spying on Americans,” Washburn noted, “but the CIA was caught in 2022 using the law — which Congressional Republicans reauthorized last year — to spy on Americans.”
While serving in Congress, Gabbard co-sponsored legislation alongside Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that sought to reform FISA and revoke the Patriot Act. She has since been all but forced to change her position on FISA, seemingly to gain support from some Republican senators.
Gabbard was asked about her evolving position on the law by the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Yet when Gabbard attempted to answer Warner’s question about which FISA Section 702 reforms she supports, the Virginia Democrat cut her off and wouldn’t allow her to finish.
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In addition to spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign, agencies such as the FBI were instrumental in fomenting the debunked Russia collusion hoax, spying on Catholics, targeting Trump supporters and parents at school board meetings, arresting pro-lifers, and partaking in a whole host of other egregious abuses. And who could forget the infamous letter signed by 51 former intel officials, who falsely claimed contents from Hunter Biden’s laptop exposing the Biden family’s foreign business dealings were part of a Russian “disinformation” campaign.
That so many elected senators — particularly Republican ones — would largely fail to ask Gabbard how she would reverse such politicization and prevent it from happening in the future is a disgrace. If anything, it’s a silent admission that they’re much more interested in protecting these broken agencies than reforming them.
Gabbard is absolutely right to be skeptical of the vast surveillance powers wielded by America’s intel apparatus. Any “Republican” who isn’t has no business being in public office.
Commentary:
Neo-Marxist Democrats and Rino's didn’t grill Tulsi - they highly insulted her, screamed at her, and made utter fools out of themselves showing clearly what hateful condescending pricks they are.
They never expected to be sitting there judging President Trump's appointees and they are now all losing bowel control and soiling their pants at the prospects. Making fools of themselves. Watching them squirm is very entertaining
No wad
I don't expect any help from your ilk
Much easier to simply not contribute and complain about everything.
She loves Arabs, Russians, and Trump in that order.
You want me to help you RINO's elect someone who spent $8 trillion in just 4 years. Who only vetoed 1 spending bill. And someone who assaulted our 2A twice?
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
I said that I understood that.
Much easier to simply whine.
It's the truth. Your hide is not as hard as your head.That's retarded.
It's the truth. Your hide is not as hard as your head.
Voters are so easily manipulated by political speak.
Oh no.....ArabophilesGabbard did nothing of the sort.
She did reveal she is a virulent Arabophile.