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Jan 31, Friday, 2025: Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on January 30, 2025, was marked by several notable moments.
Among the good moments in the hearing, the opening line by Gabbard was counted as particularly effective. She artfully steered the conversation towards her intention to deal with past intelligence failures, thus portraying herself as a candidate prompted by the desire to improve the performance of the intelligence community.
However, the hearing was also contentious at some points. Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on January 30, 2025, was marked by several notable moments. Gabbard had to face aggressive questioning from Republicans and Democrats on her previous remarks and actions.
For example, Senator Mark Kelly questioned Gabbard about her skepticism over the U.S. intelligence assessment that chemical weapons were used in an attack in Syria. Gabbard defended herself by referring to the work of Theodore Postol, an MIT physicist whose research has been largely criticized by many in the scientific community.
Another moment came when Gabbard was questioned about Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked classified information. She said she would not call him a traitor even though he “broke the law,” although she refused to call him a traitor and frustrated some senators. This would be a compromise between privacy issues and the fact that Snowden committed a crime.
Gabbard was also questioned over her infamous visit to Syria in 2017, where she met with the then-President Bashar al-Assad. She described this visit as a “fact-finding mission,” adding that she had asked tough questions about what his regime has been doing. Still, nothing could be more comforting to members of Congress, from both sides of the aisle.
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