{"id":2394432,"date":"2025-01-23T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulsi-gabbard-is-an-american-hero-being-tarred-as-a-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:11:25","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-is-an-american-hero-being-tarred-as-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulsi-gabbard-is-an-american-hero-being-tarred-as-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard Is An American Hero Being Tarred As A Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftulsi-gabbard-is-an-american-hero-being-tarred-as-a-terrorist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2394432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senators \u2062are searching for reasons to reject\u200c President\u2064 Trump&#8217;s nominee for director of national intelligence,\u200d Tulsi Gabbard, a combat \u2064veteran and former Democratic congresswoman \u2062from Hawaii. Gabbard, who has\u200d recently left the Democratic Party and expressed anti-interventionist views, faces potential \u2064roadblocks in her confirmation.\u2064 Reports indicate that her nomination is considered &#8220;on shaky ground&#8221; among Republicans, partly due to her past comments that some perceive as sympathetic to\u2062 figures\u2063 like Vladimir putin and \u2064Bashar al-Assad.Critics are questioning her about a 2017 meeting with assad and her\u2062 criticisms\u2064 of certain\u2063 intelligence practices.<\/p>\n<p>Some GOP senators express \u200cserious concerns about Gabbard&#8217;s views, \u200bbut questions arise about the \u2064consistency of \u200btheir criticisms. Notably, former Secretary \u2062of\u200b State John Kerry, \u200cwho met with Assad \u2062in the\u200d past, received overwhelmingly bipartisan support \u200cfor his confirmation. Gabbard has maintained that she\u200d dose not condone Assad&#8217;s actions \u2062but focuses on diplomatic engagement as a means to achieve peace.\u2062 the situation highlights\u200c a complex landscape of \u2064political narratives and past precedent in congressional confirmations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senators are looking for excuses over reasons to refuse President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard &mdash; a combat veteran who previously served as a Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii and now faces character assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, who is meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon, committed two crimes that now threaten to derail her confirmation: leaving the Democrat party and campaigning against the interventionist impulses of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-without-proof-feds-accuse-zero-hedge-of-russian-collaboration\/\" title=\"Nolte: Without Proof, Feds Accuse Zero Hedge of Russian Collaboration\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-ag-barr-create-durham-special-counsel-to-prevent-president-trump-from-releasing-information-related-to-crossfire-hurricane\/\" title=\"Did AG Barr Create Durham Special Counsel to Prevent President Trump from Releasing Information Related to Crossfire Hurricane?\">deep state<\/a> war machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After Democrats fought to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5079910-senate-democrats-delay-gabbard-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">delay<\/a>&nbsp;her way forward, Semafor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/22\/2025\/gabbards-nomination-on-shaky-ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday that Gabbard&rsquo;s nomination was &ldquo;on shaky ground&rdquo; within the GOP. According to the outlet, Republicans&nbsp;are &ldquo;particularly hesitant&rdquo; about previous statements from Gabbard &ldquo;that some have read as too warm toward Vladimir Putin and former Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad.&rdquo; The piece goes on to note that Gabbard met with Assad in 2017 and highlights her <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/07\/watchdog-demands-dhs-inspector-general-investigate-new-abuses-of-surveillance-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticism<\/a>&nbsp;of &ldquo;some intelligence-gathering tools&rdquo; &mdash; such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) used to execute the Russia hoax.<\/p>\n<p>One anonymous GOP Senator told&nbsp;Semafor that &ldquo;[t]here are very serious concerns by enough members to put her nomination in jeopardy.&rdquo; Another anonymous GOP senator told the outlet that Gabbard still &ldquo;has a lot of questions to answer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, both senators have some research to do. If meeting with Assad is disqualifying, then why did the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1131\/vote_113_1_00005.htm\">confirm<\/a> 94 to 3 to confirm Secretary of State John Kerry in 2013? Kerry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2006\/12\/20\/6653164\/sen-john-kerry-meets-with-syrias-president\">met<\/a> with the Syrian president while serving as a senator from Massachusetts in 2006. Were either of the anonymous senators who are now apparently critical of Gabbard&rsquo;s meeting in office 12 years ago? Did they vote to confirm Kerry as the nation&rsquo;s chief diplomat? If they were previously in the House, did either complain when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna17920536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">met<\/a> with Assad over President George W. Bush&rsquo;s objections a year later?<\/p>\n<p>Or is Gabbard&rsquo;s meeting now suddenly a problem because, under President Trump, engaging with overseas adversaries is an effective strategy to keep the peace, and neocons in Congress are allergic to world peace?<\/p>\n<p>Lest lawmakers truly believe Gabbard is a champion for the since-dismantled Assad regime, any honest examination of her past comments suggests otherwise. In 2019, Gabbard was asked in an NBC interview whether she believed the ex-Syrian dictator was a &ldquo;good person.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; she said. <\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/02\/06\/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-enemy-1152242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a> in Politico on Gabbard&rsquo;s comments at the time focused on her refusal to explicitly condemn Assad as a &ldquo;U.S. adversary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My point is that whether it is Syria or any of these other countries, we need to look at how their interests are counter to or aligned with ours,&rdquo; she said. <\/p>\n<p>How radical that a member of Congress might offer a sobering analysis of the realities in the Middle East. When Assad&rsquo;s regime finally did fall in December, the rebel coalition to take over was essentially run by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/10\/assads-downfall-proves-neocons-have-learned-nothing-from-disastrous-middle-east-meddling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISIS and al-Qaida<\/a>, two groups whose <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">interests generally run counter<\/a> to the nation they repeatedly want to bomb. Acknowledging there are no good guys in a fight doesn&rsquo;t make someone an ally to one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard predicted what would ultimately happen in Syria during an interview with CNN nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ID223ToMVxM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> how the Syrians she met with during her 2017 visit acknowledged that &ldquo;[t]here [were] no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-situation-is-dire-urgent-help-requested-for-christians-in-syria-as-nation-descends-into-chaos\/\" title=\"&#039;The Situation Is Dire&#039;: &#039;Urgent Help&#039; Requested for Christians in Syria as Nation Descends Into Chaos\">moderate rebels&#038;rdquo<\/a>; attempting to overthrow Assad.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Syrian people recognize and they know that if President Assad is overthrown, then Al-Qaida or a group like Al-Qaida &hellip; will take charge of all of Syria,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, Americans should feel safer with a director of national intelligence who can accurately foresee what might happen in global affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Semafor cited &ldquo;two people close to the White House&rdquo; reportedly &ldquo;still behind&rdquo; Gabbard. According to the outlet, one of these sources said the &ldquo;concerns&rdquo; about Gabbard are &ldquo;not people trying to put a knife in Tulsi,&rdquo; but that &ldquo;there&rsquo;s a problem, and nobody can figure it out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>What these anonymous senators and other opposition are obviously trying to figure out is how to sink Gabbard&rsquo;s nomination before her scheduled hearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/hill-politics\/senate-panel-sets-hearing-on-tulsi-gabbard-nomination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jan. 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, a nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/feature\/the-trailblazing-political-and-army-career-of-tulsi-gabbard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-decade veteran<\/a>, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, and a long-time critic of America&rsquo;s forever wars is no rookie competing against deep state smear campaigns. Last year, the former Democrat congresswoman was the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/07\/watchdog-demands-dhs-inspector-general-investigate-new-abuses-of-surveillance-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surveillance<\/a> under a counterterrorism program within the U.S. Federal Air Marshals Service (FAMS). Gabbard came under surveillance just &ldquo;one day after she criticized the Biden Administration&rdquo; on Fox News, according to a letter from the whistleblower watchdog group Empower Oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Now the victim of deep state abuses may be given the keys to oversee the deep state in what would be the worst nightmare for Gabbard&rsquo;s neocon opponents. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators seek excuses to block Trump&#8217;s pick, Tulsi Gabbard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2394433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Tulsi-e1737656023600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49098,33295,36160,6039,37690],"class_list":["post-2394432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-hero","tag-media-criticism","tag-political-controversy","tag-terrorism","tag-tulsi-gabbard"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Tulsi-e1737656023600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394439,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394432\/revisions\/2394439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}