Washington-The Republican-controlled Senate voted to enhance Toulcy Gabbard’s nomination to be the director of President Donald Trump for National Intelligence, and put it on a road to confirmation this week.
The vote on the party line was 52-46, with all Republicans voting for Gabbard. Sens did not vote. Thom Tillis, RN.C. John Fetterman, D-PA. Last week, Gabbard’s nomination as an intelligence official in the country Serair through Senate Intelligence Committee on the 9-8 Party line.
“The intelligence community needs to re -focus on its basic mission, collect intelligence and provide an unbiased analysis of that information,” said John Thun, the majority leader of the Senate, in a speech on Monday. If it is confirmed that it is DNI, and I think it has knowledge and leadership capabilities to accomplish. “
A final vote on Gabbard will be held at midnight on Tuesday, unless all Senators reach an agreement to vote soon. After that, Thun said that the Senate will immediately hold a procedural vote on Robert F. Kennedy Junior is Trump’s choice of health service and humanitarian services.
A vote on Monday came despite the concerns of Democrats and some Republicans about its 2017 secret meeting with President Bashar al -Assad from Syria; Her previous efforts to cancel a strong government control tool, known as section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Monitoring Law; And its former support for Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked the information classified into the press about these spyware.
Before nominating, Gabbard argued that Snowden should pardon. But in her confirmation session on January 30, Gabbard reflected her path, saying that she would not pay for the sake of amnesty to pardon or receive compassion, even when she refused to contact the former National Security Agency contractor as a “traitor” when pressed by the members of the Republican Party of Senate .
In addition, Gabbard She retreated from her sharp criticism From section 702 during the session, describing it as a “decisive” tool after Congress New protection has passed last year.
But some of its critics were unwanted.
“There is nothing less than our national security at stake. Senator Mark Warner, D-FA, Vice-Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said that I have nothing but respect for Mrs. Gabbard to our nation both in official uniform and as an actor in Hawaii.
“I am not wondering about the homeland of Mrs. Gabbard; I oppose her nomination because I wonder about her judgment.”
The National Intelligence Director oversees the 18 agency that forms the American intelligence community, including the CIA and the National Security Agency.
Gabbard, 43, a veterans in the Iraq war, worked for more than two decades in the Army Reserve. It was previously democratic for a long time in Hawaii, served in the State Council and the Honolulu City Council. Hawaii’s representation in the House of Representatives continued from 2013 to 2021. After it was nominated in vain to the democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Gabbard Biden supported Trump.
But it was strained on the Biden administration and Leave Democracy party In 2022, last October, shortly before the 2024 elections, Gabbard announced that it would join the Republican Party, and Trump supported the presidency and appeared with him at the Campaign.
Kate Santalez and Dan de Los Contribute.
