{"id":133874,"date":"2024-12-06T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133874"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:06:20","slug":"former-officials-urge-closed-door-senate-hearings-on-tulsi-gabbard-trumps-pick-for-intel-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133874","title":{"rendered":"Former officials urge closed-door Senate hearings on Tulsi Gabbard, Trump&#8217;s pick for intel chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nearly 100 former senior U.S. diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have urged Senate leaders to schedule closed-door hearings to allow for a full review of the government\u2019s files on former Rep. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-466dfdfe2f949ea20bc2f4ef13e21438\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a><\/span>, Donald Trump\u2019s pick to be national intelligence director.<\/p>\n<p>The former officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, said they were \u201calarmed\u201d by the choice of Gabbard to oversee all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies. They said her past actions \u201ccall into question her ability to deliver unbiased intelligence briefings to the President, Congress, and to the entire national security apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Gabbard on the Trump transition team on Thursday denounced the appeal as an \u201cunfounded\u201d and \u201cpartisan\u201d attack.<\/p>\n<p>Avril Haines, the current director of national intelligence, when asked Thursday whether intelligence sharing with allies could be in jeopardy under the next administration, cited the importance of those relationships and noted the strong bipartisan support for them in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The question, at a Council on Foreign Relations talk, focused on the especially close intelligence sharing among the Five Eyes \u2014 the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It did not mention Gabbard by name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is hard for me to believe that anybody coming in wouldn\u2019t want to maintain those relationships,\u201d Haines said. \u201cSo I wouldn\u2019t think of them as being in significant risk,\u201d she added. \u201cI certainly hope that will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those who signed the letter to Senate leaders were former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, former NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller, former national security adviser Anthony Lake, and numerous retired ambassadors and high-ranking military officers. <\/p>\n<p>They wrote to current Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and incoming Republican Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday to urge the closed briefings as part of the Senate\u2019s review of Trump\u2019s top appointments.<\/p>\n<p>They requested that Senate committees \u201cconsider in closed sessions all information available to the U.S. government when considering Ms. Gabbard\u2019s qualifications to manage our country\u2019s intelligence agencies, and more importantly, the protection of our intelligence sources and methods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter singles out Gabbard\u2019s 2017 meetings in Syria with President Bashar Assad, who is supported by Russian, Iranian and Iranian-allied forces in a now 13-year war against Syrian opposition forces seeking his overthrow. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S., which cut relations with Assad\u2019s government and imposed sanctions over his conduct of the war, maintains about 900 troops in opposition-controlled northeast Syria, saying they are needed to block a resurgence of extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, a Democratic member of Congress from Hawaii at the time of her Syria trip, drew heavy criticism for her meetings with a U.S. adversary and brutal leader. <\/p>\n<p>As the letter notes, her statements on the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gabbard-trump-putin-intelligence-russia-syria-a798adaf9cd531a5d0c9329f7597f0f6\">aligned with Russian talking points<\/a><\/span>, diverging from U.S. positions and policy.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard throughout her political career has urged the U.S. to limit military engagement abroad other than combatting Islamic extremist groups. She has defended the Syria trip by saying it is necessary to engage with U.S. enemies.<\/p>\n<p>In postings on social media earlier this year she confirmed that the U.S. had for a time placed her \u201con a secret terror watch list\u201d as a \u201cpotential domestic terror threat.\u201d She blamed political retaliation. Neither she nor U.S. authorities have publicly detailed the circumstances involved.<\/p>\n<p>Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for Gabbard with the Trump team, called the letter sent to the Senate leaders \u201ca perfect example\u201d of why Trump chose Gabbard for this position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese unfounded attacks are from the same geniuses who have blood on their hands from decades of faulty \u2018intelligence,\u2019\u201d and use classified government information as a \u201cpartisan weapon to smear and imply things about their political enemy,\u201d Henning said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Thune did not immediately respond to questions about the request.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writer Didi Tang contributed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-gabbard-national-intelligence-director-senate-e351e922f7d185ced030169fe83e94da\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nearly 100 former senior U.S. diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have urged Senate leaders to schedule closed-door hearings to allow for a full review of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133874\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}