Tulsi Gabbard's DNI tenure fuels critique of threat assessment under Trump
TL;DR
The Bulwark's Will Saletan argues that Tulsi Gabbard, appointed by Donald Trump as director of national intelligence, has shifted from evidence-based threat assessment to claiming only the president can declare imminent threats, contrasting her past cautions on North Korea and the Soleimani strike with a 2025 stance that aligned with Trump’s Iran-war narrative and her later public acquiescence to presidential decision-making, a move the piece frames as a step toward autocracy.
- Tulsi Gabbard: Director of National Ignorance The Bulwark
- What’s a Threat? Gabbard Says It’s Up to Trump, on Iran and Elsewhere. The New York Times
- Takeaways from intelligence officials’ testimony amid war with Iran CNN
- US intel chief Gabbard says Iran was not rebuilding enrichment prior to war Al Jazeera
- U.S. and Israel Goals for Iran War ‘Different,’ Gabbard Says WSJ
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