GOP senators anonymously stabbing Tulsi Gabbard in back over Snowden

The uni-party is determined to prevent Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard from getting out of the confirmation process and some GOP senators are anonymously stabbing her in the back to the media before the critical Senate Intelligence Committee vote.

More than any of President Donald J. Trump’s nominees, Gabbard inspires deep fear among those who have for too long abused the nation’s intelligence apparatus to carry out dirty deeds with one of the worst being the mass warrantless domestic surveillance of the American people, something that she vehemently opposes.

It may have been twelve years ago but the bad actors in Washington, D.C. still have a huge ax to grind with Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who blew the lid off of the spying programs put into place during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama regimes. Gabbard’s refusal to falsely label him as a “traitor” is the justification that some RINO rats are seemingly ready to use to reject her nomination.

“People are holding their cards pretty close to the vest, but that nomination is in trouble,” one anonymous Republican told The Hill, confirming the bipartisan effort to ensure that the reform-minded former Democrat congresswoman who has been a fierce critic of neocon wars, the tyrannical abuses of power by her former party and the corrupt D.C. establishment.

Another GOP senator who was granted anonymity by the outlet said that there’s been “a lot of discussion” among Republican lawmakers about Gabbard’s “fitness” to head up the intelligence community.

“There’s been a lot of conversation on that,” the unnamed senator said.

During a key moment in Thursday’s hearing, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) tried to browbeat Gabbard into saying that a man who is viewed by many as a true patriot and an American hero is a “traitor” but she wouldn’t play along.

“I was surprised, because that doesn’t seem like a hard question on that. It wasn’t intended to be a trick question by any means,” Lankford said, adding, that it should be “universally accepted when you steal a million pages of top-secret documents and you hand it to the Russians, that’s a traitorous act.”

Snowden’s “traitorous act” revealed the terrifying extent to which the Obama government conducted mass spying on law-abiding Americans using systems that were intended to be deployed to protect the nation from actual terrorist threats. The Obama regime’s snooping would later be turned against Trump himself with his campaign and transition team being spied on in what some might suggest were traitorous acts.

Gabbard also evidently didn’t grovel enough to denounce Snowden to please another GOP committee member, Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) with The Hill stating that her answer on whether Snowden did damage to national security “appeared to rankle” the Hoosier State senator.

“Do you have any response to the bipartisan findings of the House Intel Committee, which stated that Snowden caused tremendous damage to national security, including to military, defense and intelligence programs of great interest to America’s adversaries?” Young asked the nominee, then whined that it was “notable” that she didn’t agree that Snowden harmed national intelligence.

Young also brought up former GOP congressman Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for attorney general who was forced to withdraw after anonymous GOP senators also went to the press with their grievances about him, confronting Gabbard about legislation that she co-sponsored with the Florida Republican calling for charges against Snowden to be dropped.

“When we find Americans, whether private citizens or contractors or uniformed personnel, have shared sensitive designs about military technology or plans to a foreign government … we rightfully throw the book at them. Snowden did just that. Yet you have argued many times that he should be pardoned,” a frustrated Young said.

Snowden himself took to X to encourage Gabbard to play along with denouncing him to Congress which he equated with the “pledge of allegiance.”

“I don’t know, And I have to tell you, I’m worried by what I hear from some of my Republican colleagues,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told Fox News’ Jesse Watters after the hearing. “I’m worried that her nomination may be in jeopardy.”

“Her ‘sin’ is that she challenges the surveillance state,” he explained. “She told the truth about the government spying on Americans and about the abuses of FISA. She went out there and was honest about it and for that, she is getting absolutely roasted and persecuted.”

The intel community and its lackeys in Congress are determined to protect their surveillance systems, and protecting them from Gabbard – who is correctly seen as an existential threat to their power –  and preventing her from being seated is a bipartisan priority.

Chris Donaldson

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