r/tuesday • u/Emperor-Commodus Right Visitor • Nov 14 '24

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/tulsi-gabbard-nomination-security/680649/

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u/timk85 Right Visitor Nov 14 '24

All you have to do is look at the author's name, click his name, and look at the other articles he has written in the last 12 months.

The Atlantic might as well be MSNBC with a corduroy sports coat at this point.

His arguments are weak. "She has no management experience." Yet, in literally the same paragraph, he points out to how she received Lt. Col. position in the guard and served in Congress. Huh? You going to go tell a bunch of colonels in the military they have no experience managing things?

Why even bring this drivel here?

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u/Emperor-Commodus Right Visitor Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

As for her qualifications, compare her to Biden's ODNI, Avril Haines, a lawyer who's been working in the State department and then CIA for the last 20 years. Or Trump's own Gina Haspel, who had been a CIA ghoul for over 30 years before being nominated.

Ultimately, it's Gabbard's more recent history that is the issue. She's spent the last 6 years giving interviews where she says the US should be cozying up to authoritarian leaders who are not aligned with us or our allies. She's not an intelligence officer, she's never been involved in intelligence, and all indications are that her views are out of step with the intelligence community.

The author does not try to hide his status as a Never-Trump conservative. But he looks pretty qualified from his work history. Especially on issues concerning Russia.