Tulsi Gabbard wasted no time getting to the heart of the matter during her opening statement today.
The nominee for Director of National Intelligence kicked off her confirmation hearing by immediately highlighting a Deep State operation against President Trump.
In doing so, both President Trump and Tulsi Gabbard’s intentions to end the weaponization of the U.S. intel community for domestic political purposes was placed securely front and center.
And she didn’t just mention the issue casually — she outlined point by point transgressions by which the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the plethora of American intelligence agencies have in essence defaulted on their duty and obligation to the Constitution and the American people.
She actually quoted Chuck Schumer as part of her introduction, reminding everyone that he admitted the intelligence agencies have “six ways to Sunday” to exact retribution from those who muck with their power and influence.
Here’s a quick refresher if you weren’t aware Schumer admitted as much:
This is the REAL Chuck Schumer.
“Intelligence Agencies have 6 ways from Sunday of getting back at you…” pic.twitter.com/iyi4t1l4oA
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) December 20, 2024
And here’s a clip from the beginning of Tulsi’s opening statement as covered by C-SPAN:
🚨🇺🇸 TULSI GABBARD: TOO MANY TIMES BAD AND WEAPONIZED INTEL HAS LED TO COSTLY FAILURES
“Chuck Schumer admitted a few years ago, quote, ‘You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.’
For too long, faulty, inadequate, or… https://t.co/2C281qM575 pic.twitter.com/nJpundH8Um
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 30, 2025
“Chuck Schumer admitted a few years ago, quote, ‘You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.’
For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence has led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security and God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.
The most obvious example of one of these failures is our invasion of Iraq, based upon a total fabrication or complete failure of intelligence.”
Right off the bat she spanned the entire spectrum of intel failures from the weaponization of information we are all too well familiar with, going back as far as the politicization of intel info which led to the second Gulf War in 2003.
If there was any doubt about her primary mission and goal as Director of National Intelligence, she surely dispelled it with that statement alone.
She also didn’t shy away from bringing up the infamous Hunter laptop, and the intel agencies role in attempting to cover over that fiasco with deceit.
She also stated outright that Anthony Blinken, a senior Biden campaign official at the time before taking on the Secretary of State role after the 2020 election, was the instigator of the entire make-believe “Russian disinformation” cover story regarding the emails on the laptop.
Anthony Blinken adamantly denied being involved when questioned directly just two years ago:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken denies that he asked for the letter to be written claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian Disinformation and when asked if he accepts that the laptop isn’t Russian Disinformation, he says “I’m not engaging in politics”. pic.twitter.com/2spkML1B9M
— ALX (Vine Nationalist) 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 2, 2023
But, as Tulsi Gabbard plainly clarified as part of her opening statement, sworn testimony seems to prove that he was lying.
The CIA Acting Director at the time later testified under oath that Blinken was the individual who organized the 50 former intel officials to sign a letter corroborating the Russian disinformation cover.
Blinken, according to Morell’s sworn testimony, told him that his intention was to help Biden win the election, according to a report in the New York Post backing up Gabbard’s claims in her opening statement:
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign prompted former acting CIA Director Mike Morell to “help Biden” by organizing 50 colleagues to sign a letter in October 2020 falsely claiming that damning emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop published by The Post were Russian disinformation.
In private sworn testimony, Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that Antony Blinken, now secretary of state, was the senior campaign official who reached out to him “on or before” Oct. 17, 2020, three days after The Post published an email from the laptop suggesting Hunter had introduced his Ukrainian business partner to his father, then-Vice President Biden.
Morell, identified as a potential CIA director under Biden, said he organized the letter to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.”
Until Blinken’s call, Morell told House investigators, he had no intention of writing any statement exonerating Biden.
It turns out that President Trump’s assertions to this effect were right years ahead of the revelations that prove them to be so.
And now, we are on the cusp of a National Intelligence Director who sees her primary mission in that role being the destruction of any intelligence apparatus designed to carry out such disinformation ops against U.S. political targets or the American people.
Irritating both democrats and Senate RINOs, she also refused to call Edward Snowden a ‘traitor’, according to a report in the Independent:
Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was repeatedly asked to explain why she sought a pardon for Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents revealing the scope of the nation’s surveillance programs.
Gabbard — a former Democratic congresswoman turned Trump ally accused of routinely amplifying Russian propaganda and defending Syria’s Bashar al-Assad — also refused to call Snowden a “traitor” during her confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, facing questions from members of both parties about her past praise.
“This is when the rubber meets the road,” Democratic Senator Michael Bennet pressed during a heated round of questions, demanding a yes-or-no answer as to whether she believes Snowden is a “traitor” to the United States.
“This is not a moment for social media, this is not a moment to propagate conspiracy theories or attacks on journalism in the United States,” Bennet said. “Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America? That is not a hard question to answer when the stakes are this high.”
Throughout her testimony, Gabbard insisted she believes Snowden “broke the law” and promised that, if confirmed, she would prevent a “Snowden-like leak” within the arms of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
But she stressed that she believes his leaks “released information that exposed egregious, illegal and unconstitutional programs within our government,” leading to reforms proposed by members of Congress.
Her willingness to admit the legal lines Snowden crossed while recognizing the critical part those leaks played in exposing and stopping unconstitutional injustices being perpetrated against the American people is ACTUALLY where ‘the rubber meets the road’, in my opinion.
Tulsi Gabbard has a hard road ahead of her for a possible confirmation — those are the facts.
Those culpable democrats and RINOs are all gunning for her.
But with an opening statement that makes her willingness to confront the problems regardless of institutional resistance — can there be any doubt that President Trump chose the right person for the job?
Here’s her full opening statement, in which she openly names former U.S. intel officials like Clapper and Brennan who lied to Congress and the American people about their illegal and immoral abuse of power:
She is a firebrand, and as such, she scares the living daylights out of anyone who has something to lose by the overturning of the status quo.
She openly testified to Congress about illegal spying by U.S. intel agencies on Americans, Congress, and Presidents — and in so doing treated such corrupt criminalities as they should be; an abhorrence to American liberty.
She called out the cozying up of American leaders to Islamic extremist terrorists, like when Jake Sullivan told Hillary that al Qaeda in Syria was on our side — so we funded, trained, and supported them.
We supported, and still support through millions of dollars in payments every single week, terrorist organizations hellbent on our destruction — and Tulsi Gabbard sat in Congress and said it out loud.
And that is exactly why, as her opening statement alone makes clear, Tulsi Gabbard is exactly who we need heading up America’s intel community for President Trump.
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