{"id":73892,"date":"2026-05-22T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/the-turbulent-15-months-of-trumps-unlikely-us-intelligence-director\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:54:44","slug":"the-turbulent-15-months-of-trumps-unlikely-us-intelligence-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/the-turbulent-15-months-of-trumps-unlikely-us-intelligence-director\/","title":{"rendered":"The turbulent 15 months of Trump\u2019s unlikely US intelligence director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 15 months, the ex-Democrat without an intelligence background took actions seemingly meant to flatter Trump<\/p>\n<p>Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s tumultuous 15-month tenure as the US\u2019s top intelligence official ended Friday, when Gabbard submitted her resignation as director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard was an unconventional choice for the role, given she was a former Democrat with no notable intelligence background. Her political views, particularly on foreign intervention, have at times diverged from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s. But she also undertook norm-breaking actions as the country\u2019s top intelligence chief that appeared designed to flatter Trump and his agenda of election denial.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/22\/tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-director\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 15 months, the ex-Democrat without an intelligence background took actions seemingly meant to flatter Trump Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s tumultuous 15-month tenure as the US\u2019s top intelligence official ended Friday, when Gabbard submitted her resignation as director of national intelligence. Gabbard was an unconventional choice for the role, given she was a former Democrat with no &#8230; <a title=\"The turbulent 15 months of Trump\u2019s unlikely US intelligence director\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/the-turbulent-15-months-of-trumps-unlikely-us-intelligence-director\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The turbulent 15 months of Trump\u2019s unlikely US intelligence director\">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-73892","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\/73892","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=73892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}