Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing
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Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:44:29 +0200
Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trumps national security director nominee ahead of confirmation voteUS politics live latest updatesTulsi Gabbard, Donald Trumps nominee for national security director, refused to call the whistleblower Edward Snowden a traitor but sought to rein in her unorthodox views on foreign dictators and opposition to electronic surveillance during a tense confirmation hearing that could sink her nomination to oversee the countrys sprawling intelligence community.In a threehour hearing before the Senate intelligence committee, Gabbard, a former congresswoman and member of the Hawaii army national guard, partially recanted her views that Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine, said she had no love for the Syrian dictator Bashar alAssad and denied meeting with Hezbollah representatives during a trip to Lebanon in 2017.
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