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Robyn Chauvin's avatar

She got the job because she is a Russian asset, just like her boss

Charles's avatar

I believe Gabbard has the common sense of a donkey. She got the job because she is both ignorant and a sycophant. She didn't have be a Russian agent to get the nomination. Her qualifications were perfect from Trump's point of view.

Zelda Hester's avatar

This is pretty appalling to say the least. The long-term damage here is irreversible. Once again we have a needless gesture by incompetent and foolhardy department heads, trying to fulfill Trumps endless need for revenge against previous administrations. Trump is trying to rewrite the past, and erase past offenses by appearing to investigate matters that were addressed and closed long ago. He is willing to put lives on the line to do so. That seems to sum up the intentions of a corrupt man who unfortunately, has the power to wreak as much havoc as possible while in office. The need to remove this man from the Presidency, is becoming more urgent every day. We are talking about our survival as a democracy. The ability to amend the damage inflicted by the Republican Party diminishes every day that they keep their stranglehold on our country.

Swbv's avatar

Gabbard and Bondi. They're in a horse race to the FOX make up room. No need for allies. And the Constitution is just a thing for the Libs to care about.

Roger Loeb's avatar

If this were shared by anyone else in the intelligence community, they'd be in jail, probably for the rest of their life. The identity of an asset doesn't need to be disclosed; suspicion is enough to be fatal. Compromising a method destroys years of innovation; replacement takes decades. This is what happens when we place amateurs in positions that belong to long-term professionals who understand the domain!

Nick's avatar

Like the Felon, Tulsi Gabbard has been working with Putin for years. The Felon proved to be a Russian asset in Helsinki. How many died as a result of the Felon's stealing classified documents when he left office the first time. How many will die as a result of Gabbard's release of the report.

JMull's avatar

Sure seems like what’s happening here is more than mere negligence. Their reasonings don’t hold water.

Swbv's avatar
Aug 12Edited

I hope this imbecilic decision makes clear to even our GOP senior leadership that Gabbard is way under qualified for her job.

Charles's avatar

Gabbard is incompetent and unqualified, like almost all of Trump's cabinet and advisors. The rot starts at the top and goes down to the lowest level. The Intelligence Community works diligently to safeguard agents and methods that can compromise ongoing operations and techniques. Gabbard, Radcliffe and Bondi apparently believe they know more than the professionals and that political gain is more important than ongoing operations, techniques and agents. Please let me know when their heads have been surgically removed from their asses!

CC's avatar

Even if you don't have any sense of gratitude or, God forbid, human compassion for the people who worked for us, the US is made weaker and more vulnerable.

A few spies working for you is way better than sending a lot of soldiers blundering into wars that didn't need to happen. As anybody that remembers the last few wars can tell you.

Michelle Jordan's avatar

Tulsi Gabbard is the least trustworthy person in the FF regime. It started with an unauthorized visit to see Basar Al Assad while she was still serving in the military. She has also spread lies about U.S. funded biolabs in Ukraine. Why does she do this? To get certain individuals off course so she can allow political operatives to get away things they shouldn’t.

Robert Lastick's avatar

Ahh, there you all go again, thinking!

You all know (and have been reminded by Tulsi Gabbard and her ilk many, many times) that they don't run their railroad by thinking, but by how what they say will add to their chance of re-election.

You all KNOW that she did not even one small peep of a thought about how her actions might compromise (or possibly kill) others.

When we think about Tulsi, and the many others like her we have put into very powerful and sensitive positions, we all must think shallow, REAL shallow.

Swbv's avatar

And, her closeness to Russia doesn't make me feel good about her briefings for Trumps upcoming meeting. Presuming that there's been a little bit of briefing

Doctor Go's avatar

We have not only lost existing intelligence sources, but we will also lose FUTURE intelligence sources.

NO ONE is going to stick their necks out for the US, knowing that we may at some time publicly out them.

The damage, the harm to our national intelligence going forward will be irreparable for decades to come.

Peter Jacobsen's avatar

IIRC, in Trump’s first term, an unusually large number of CIA agents were lost.

Peter Jacobsen's avatar

Source:

A “troubling” large number of CIA informants have been captured, killed or compromised.

www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html

David Moscatello's avatar

I see no conundrum here about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to ignore concerns about compromising sensitive sources and methods, nor any doubt about her motives. Gabbard has been pro-Russia and pro-Putin for years, explicitly taking Russia’s side in the Ukraine war and in Syria.

Her motives are protecting Trump and protecting Putin. That second one may be technically not treason, but it’s a huge betrayal of the nation and her oath.

Barbara Grinell's avatar

The article is good

Grace Doolittle's avatar

Recent revelations have filled me with dread. The ongoing incompetence of this regime and their loud proclamations thereof are providing so many opportunities for our enemies, I’m afraid they will act.