{"id":58130,"date":"2025-02-13T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58130"},"modified":"2025-02-13T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:00:08","slug":"gabbard-as-dni-ugghhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58130","title":{"rendered":"Gabbard as DNI? Ugghhh!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard, the one-time &#8220;far-left Democrat&#8221; who switched parties and then backed Donald Trump&#8217;s candidacy for POTUS, is the new director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to ask: What would Republicans think of her had she been nominated as DNI by a Democratic president? Today she garnered 52 of 53 GOP votes in the U.S. Senate, with only Mitch McConnell of Kentucky showing a semblance of courage in bucking his party.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, make no mistake that the MAGA wing of the Republican Party &#8212; led by the aforementioned POTUS &#8212; has taken complete control of a once-great political organization.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard has no business leading the 18 intelligence-gathering agencies under her command. She cozies up to dictators, such as Vladimir Putin, despite the Russian thug&#8217;s illegal and immoral war in Ukraine. She once called whistlebower Edward Snowden a traitor but now wants him pardoned for his treasonous acts.<\/p>\n<p>She is as unreliable a Cabinet official as one can imagine. What&#8217;s more, her unreliability puts all of us &#8212; you and me &#8212; in dire peril.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a dark and dangerous day with Gabbord&#8217;s confirmation.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi Gabbard, the one-time &#8220;far-left Democrat&#8221; who switched parties and then backed Donald Trump&#8217;s candidacy for POTUS, is the new director of national intelligence. It&#8217;s fair to ask: What would Republicans think of her had she been nominated as DNI by a Democratic president? Today she garnered 52 of 53 GOP votes in the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gabbard as DNI? Ugghhh!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7926],"tags":[6832,1424,7419,8978],"class_list":["post-58130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","tag-dni","tag-donald-trump","tag-maga","tag-tulsi-gabbard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58131,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130\/revisions\/58131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}