Tulsi Gabbard still confronting "forever" smears en route to DNI confirmation
Gene Marx
December 12, 2024
Gene Marx
December 12, 2024
With evidence-based claims at a premium, especially during a presidential transition, this Navy veteran and 2024 Green Party voter just had to make the time to rebut NW Citizen’s atypical hit piece, Gabbard and Hegseth: Why are they not Profoundly Ashamed?
Gabbard and Hegseth - It is not too late to put your country above your non-existent fitness for high office nwcitizen.com
And frankly, it would come as no surprise to my Lib friends that I would support Tulsi Gabbard’s DNI nomination. Not only do I find her more than qualified, but she might even shake up our hegemonic, interventionist foreign policy should she be confirmed. Of course I “wasted” my vote on Jill Stein, so what does this “Putin apologist” know…or is it “Assad apologist” now?
Gabbard first caught my attention in 2016 when she resigned as DNC Vice Chair to endorse Bernie Sanders, so I knew then she had spine. But when she remarked in 2019 that she kept her distinctive streak of white hair, after leaving Iraq and it had returned to its natural color, as a reminder of the price we all pay for the US’s endless wars, I was totally on board.
Gabbard first caught my attention in 2016 when she resigned as DNC Vice Chair to endorse Bernie Sanders, so I knew then she had spine. But when she remarked in 2019 that she kept her distinctive streak of white hair, after leaving Iraq and it had returned to its natural color, as a reminder of the price we all pay for the US’s endless wars, I was totally on board.
"It's a reminder, every single day of the cost of war of those we lost and my mission in life to seek peace and to fight for peace."
While I am not able to weigh in on Pete Hegseth’s qualifications to be sworn in even as a member of a school board, much less the DoD Secretary, I do consider myself uniquely qualified to write in support of Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence. After my more than 35 years in federal service, including a combat tour of Vietnam as an Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer and several years as a SCIF-bound TS/SCI FAA Emergency Services Watch Supervisor, I am hardly a layperson on the national security system and vetting process. If nearly 100 former national security officials are ‘alarmed’ at the prospect of Gabbard providing oversight for the intel community – ‘apoplectic’ might be more apt - she just might be the perfect outsider for the job, If recent bailouts are any indication of the potential impact of this new Trump DNI cleaning house.
In order to unravel another biased appraisal of Tulsi Gabbard, let’s briefly step outside the corporate media smear bubble, now obviously engulfing this local online news magazine.
Continue reading on Substack.
In order to unravel another biased appraisal of Tulsi Gabbard, let’s briefly step outside the corporate media smear bubble, now obviously engulfing this local online news magazine.
Continue reading on Substack.