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Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Trump’s Director of National Intelligence

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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Democrat congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence. The vote, which passed mostly along party lines at 52-48, followed weeks of intense debate over Gabbard’s past views on intelligence operations and foreign policy.

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52-48: Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard to serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) for the second Trump Administration. McConnell was the only Republican to vote No with all Democrats.
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  • Gabbard, who represented Hawaii in Congress for eight years, faced sharp scrutiny from both parties over her past comments on U.S. adversaries, surveillance programs, and her stance on Edward Snowden.

  • Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans approved her nomination last week after she provided follow-up answers addressing their concerns. Some GOP lawmakers had initially resisted, citing worries over her foreign policy positions.

  • Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer opposed the confirmation, claiming that Gabbard “wouldn’t receive more than ten votes” if Republicans were allowed to vote in secret.

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Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii turned Trump ally, was confirmed  Wednesday as the director of national intelligence following a 52-48 Senate vote that split mostly along party lines. Former GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to join all Democrats in voting against Gabbard, and the confirmation marks one of President Trump’s most controversial intelligence appointments, with Gabbard facing intense questioning over her positions on classified intelligence and foreign adversaries.

Gabbard’s past remarks and actions drew bipartisan concern, particularly her defense of Edward Snowden, her prior skepticism of U.S. intelligence assessments on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and her opposition to surveillance authorities like Section 702. Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans had initially hesitated on her nomination, but they ultimately backed her after she responded to follow-up inquiries about her positions on national security.

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, claimed that Gabbard was unfit for the role, accusing her of “publicly defending Snowden after he compromised our nation’s most sensitive collection sources and methods.” Warner also criticized her past statements blaming the U.S. and NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and her meeting with a controversial Syrian cleric.

During confirmation hearings, Gabbard refuted accusations that she harbored sympathies for foreign adversaries, calling the allegations “offensive.” She defended her record on national security and insisted that while she disagreed with Snowden’s actions, her proposed intelligence reforms would prevent similar leaks in the future.

Senate Republicans ultimately rallied behind Gabbard, with Senate Republican Whip John Barrasso pushing back on accusations that she had echoed Kremlin propaganda. He pointed to her past support for sanctions against Russia and Iran, as well as her backing of military aid to Ukraine after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Schumer and other Senate Democrats urged Republicans to resist pressure from the Trump administration, claiming that GOP lawmakers were putting politics ahead of national security. Despite these objections, the confirmation moved forward, concluding a bitterly divided debate over Gabbard’s appointment to lead the nation’s intelligence operations.

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Mike Benz Exposes How USAID Funds State-Sponsored Hit Pieces to Crush Political Opponents

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USAID wasn’t just funding biased reporting. They were actively reshaping foreign governments.

Former State Department official Mike Benz, an expert on cyber policy, censorship, and information warfare, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience Wednesday and dropped jaw-dropping insights into USAID’s absurd abuse of US tax dollars.

According to Benz, USAID has been funneling taxpayer dollars into so-called investigative journalism, but the real goal isn’t transparency—it is control.

“Everything they do is a hit piece about an instance of corruption that can be used by prosecutors in the area to arrest the political opponents of the State Department,” Benz explained.

USAID’s program, officially called Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting, claims to promote a free press. But Benz revealed its true purpose is to ruin people’s lives and go after political targets in order to change the policies of foreign governments from the inside.

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For a mere investment of $20 million, USAID’s state-sponsored hit pieces were able to:

• Generate at least $4.5 billion in fines against targets of these hit pieces.

• Influence over 548 policy changes across foreign governments and private sectors.

USAID justified these programs under the term “capacity building,” which Benz warned is a red flag. “Now, this is the phrase everybody has to know. Capacity building is what this is all built under. That means pumping up the Blob’s assets, he explained.

And USAID wasn’t just funding biased reporting. They were actively reshaping foreign governments. Benz revealed 548 policy changes resulted from these state-sponsored media attacks, which he suggested were for the “furtherance of USAID’s or the State Department’s foreign policy goals.”

Think about what that means. The U.S. government is secretly funding media outlets to push narratives, destroy political opponents, and manipulate foreign policy, all under the guise of investigative journalism.

The question is – if they’re doing this overseas, how much of it is happening at home?

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New House task force seeks to declassify 9/11 files, Epstein client list, JFK assassination, UFOs

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By Emily Mangiaracina

The U.S. House Oversight Committee announced the creation of a “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets” that will seek to declassify 9/11 files, Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, UFOs, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and more.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, on Tuesday appointed Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida to lead the task force, which will also focus on declassifying files related to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the origins of COVID-19.

 

“This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into irrelevance or send strongly worded letters. This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until Americans have the answers they deserve,” Luna said Tuesday.

Luna and Comer have already written to various government agencies requesting documents related to the above-mentioned federal secrets. Sources told Fox News that they sent letters to the Department of Defense and the CIA for 9/11 files; to the Justice Department for Epstein files; to the National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA for documents about the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations; and to the CIA, State Department, and Department of Energy for documents concerning the origins of COVID.

Files pertaining to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and USOs (unidentified submerged objects) will also be investigated.

The creation of the task force follows President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the declassification of documents relating to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.

“If we are to endure and thrive as a nation, we must restore trust, trust through transparency. The American people must be trusted to think for themselves, to form their own judgments from the truth that they are entitled to know,” Luna said while announcing her role in the task force.

“We’ve been treated like children for too long and left in the dark by those we elected to serve us.”

Sources told Fox News that the task force has been authorized to operate for six months.

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