In this post from Stephen Green at Insty’s, we see the following:
President Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities were the result of 15 years of intel work, the Pentagon said Thursday — but Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard curiously was missing from key moments before and after the raid.
The ex-Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii — an outspoken opponent of US military intervention in the Middle East — now faces the perception that she’s being shunted to the side by the commander-in-chief, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who previously held her job, taking on a larger profile.
Gabbard, 44, was missing from an intelligence briefing with Congress on Thursday, where Ratcliffe gave lawmakers classified details of the Saturday strike.
She also was excluded from a June 8 national security pow-wow at Camp David, where Trump began to shape his plans for Iran with Ratcliffe and other key leaders, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Two days after that meeting — to which administration officials told Fox News Gabbard was not invited — she released what one person close to the administration described as a “fear-mongering” video on the dangers of nuclear war, in what was seen as a swipe against a preemptive strike.
Uh huh. And as I noted before (yes, that’s my meme wot I wrote):
My guess is that Trump and his buddies took note of her Middle East isolationist tendencies, and froze her out of Operation Midnight Hammer or whatever it was called.
Let’s see what happens from here.
And let me get ahead of this one, as well:
I don’t trust RFK Jr., for similar reasons.
Gabbard and RFK Jr need to be kept on a tight leash. If they aren’t going to carry out Trump’s policies then fire them. My stance on Gabbard softened a little but there must be a reason why she was kept out of the loop. And I am sure it is a very good reason
She’s an emotional basketcase lead by emotions.
I wouldn’t trust her with much of anything at all.
That “soldier” pik? Mostly bullshit.
Not saying I trust Tulsi, but there are few things I trust less than the “Intelligence Community.”
Good point.
For a variety of reasons, I would be a great deal happier if some or all of the ex-Democrats who had jumped on the Trump bandwagon were instead trying to reform their former party. I can’t imagine voting for a Democrat in my lifetime, but the country needs two viable parties keeping each-other in check. I don’t know what form Populist Republican excesses would take, but I know enough history to feel sure that if the Democrats continue their spiral toward irrelevance, there will be some. And, frankly, there is to ‘third party’ in any way ready to step in. I had some hopes for the Libertarians once, but they seem far more interested in squabbling over doctrinal purity than in actually winning legislative seats on the State or Federal level. And most of the other ‘third parties’ are far left radicals even crazier than the Democrats, with single digit polling.
The left has moved so far left that I believe that they are no longer salvageable. The Big L Libertarians loose a lot of people at weak isolationist foreign policy, open borders and unrestrained drug addiction and abuse.