The concerns follow a series of election-related actions by Gabbard, including her recent appearance during an FBI raid of a Fulton County, Georgia elections office that was at the center of President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud in 2020. Her team seized voting machines in Puerto Rico last year, per Reuters reporting, and has since said the systems contain cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
I've seen a lot of the media in this room get very caught up with the semantics of why Tulsi Gabbard is there. I will tell you why, and the president agrees with this, because election security is essential to national security; and as the director of national intelligence, it is a part of Ms. Gabbard's role to make sure that American elections are free of foreign interference and that American elections are safe and secure.
Gabbard's inquiry, which relies on evidence gathered last week in an FBI raid on an elections facility in Fulton County, Georgia, is separate from another Department of Justice (DOJ) inquiry that is also examining data gathered in that operation. The involvement of the Office of the DNI is unusual, as the head of that agency typically focuses on military intelligence and foreign relations, and has no domestic law enforcement powers.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard - who was spotted yesterday in an FBI raid on the election offices of Fulton Country, Georgia (a county that Donald Trump targeted in his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election) - has ties to anti-gay organizations in her home state of Hawaii, including one that promoted conversion therapy, the widely debunked practice of trying to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
She was a U.S. congresswoman for eight f*cking years. She served overseas in a medical unit, right? So, she was deployed twice in a medical unit in the middle of the f*cking war, and you're labeling her a terrorist? Whoever did that whoever signed off on that should be in f*cking jail. That's crazy. That's such an abuse of power.
Charlie Kirk, a right-wing influencer known for his gun rights advocacy and anti-LGBTQ+ views, was killed at Utah Valley University, in Orem, on Wednesday (10 September) while holding one of his 'Prove Me Wrong' debating events. He was discussing the conservative conspiracy theory about trans shooters when a single shot hit him in the neck. He died later in hospital.
Calls rang out on Thursday for President Donald Trump to fire his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after a Wall Street Journal report found she posted the name of an undercover CIA agent working on Russia to social media without informing the CIA. Last week, Gabbard posted a list of 37 names of former and current intelligence officers to X who she stripped of their security clearances and accused of betraying their oath to the Constitution.
In a presser at the White House yesterday, Tulsi presented the contents of the HPSCI report without context, focusing closely on a section that cites a cherrypicked selection of Russian intelligence reports purportedly based on documents stolen from Democrats.
Gabbard stated that she has not seen any evidence suggesting Jeffrey Epstein was connected to intelligence agencies, asking to see credible evidence if it arises.
The classified version includes more discussion of the confidence levels. 'We have high confidence in this assessment [that both SVR and GRU hacked political targets]...' This indicates a strong basis for the assessment, differing from public release nuances.