{"id":31991,"date":"2025-01-30T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/tulsi-gabbard-grilled-on-snowden-assad-and-putin-in-tense-senate-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:10:44","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-grilled-on-snowden-assad-and-putin-in-tense-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/tulsi-gabbard-grilled-on-snowden-assad-and-putin-in-tense-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump\u2019s national security director nominee ahead of confirmation vote<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/30\/donald-trump-guantanamo-bay-rfk-jr-tulsi-gabbard-fbi-kash-patel-us-politics-latest-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s nominee for national security director, refused to call the whistleblower Edward Snowden a \u201ctraitor\u201d but sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/14\/trump-tulsi-gabbard-national-intelligence\">rein in her unorthodox views on foreign dictators<\/a> and opposition to electronic surveillance during a tense confirmation hearing that could sink her nomination to oversee the country\u2019s sprawling intelligence community.<\/p>\n<p>In a three-hour hearing before the Senate intelligence committee, Gabbard, a former congresswoman and member of the Hawaii army national guard, partially recanted her views that Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine, said she had \u201cno love\u201d for the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and denied meeting with Hezbollah representatives during a trip to Lebanon in 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump\u2019s national security director nominee ahead of confirmation vote US politics live \u2013 latest updates Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for national security director, refused to call the whistleblower Edward Snowden a \u201ctraitor\u201d but sought to rein in her unorthodox views on foreign dictators and opposition to electronic surveillance during a &#8230; <a title=\"Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/tulsi-gabbard-grilled-on-snowden-assad-and-putin-in-tense-senate-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}