Who is Tulsi Gabbard?

Meet Trump's Nominee for Department of National Intelligence (DNI) Chief

👀 🫦 There's a lot of misinformation, disinformation about Department of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard flying around so I thought I'd do a round up of Tulsi Gabbard statements, behaviours and actions around matters of national security and intelligence.

Tulsi Gabbard was a member of an anti-LGBTQ cult. She grew up attending schools run by followers of Chris Butler, a leader of a "transcendental Hinduism" religious sect, a group some have called a high-demand religious cult.

Practices in the religious society, called the Science of Identity Foundation required that followers lie face down when Chris Butler entered a room and that they eat "his nail clippings or the "spoonfuls" of the sand that Butler "walked upon".

One group member, Robin Marshall, said this of Tulsi Gabbard:
"Tulsi was being groomed for a political position because Chris Butler had political aspirations. He wanted the influence. It was very unusual because women in Science of Identity aren't really encouraged to do anything."

While an elected Democratic Party Representative for Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard met secretly with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. al-Assad is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own Syrian civilians, even launching chemical warfare attacks. His barbarism created the Syrian refugee crisis.

Bashar al-Assad is also a close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

After the meeting, Tulsi Gabbard declared Bashar al-Assad is "not an enemy of the U.S. people".

According to observers, Tulsi Gabbard has demonstrated a consistent willingness to parrot Russian propaganda — a tendency that has earned Gabbard ongoing praise on Russian state TV outlets.

Gabbard has spread a false, debunked bio lab lie about Ukraine to justify the war crimes being committed by the invading Russian army.

Gabbard's firm pro-Putin stance and outspoken efforts to justify the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked alarm among U.S. intelligence officials and U.S. Allies.

The post for which Tulsi Gabbard has been nominated, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to coordinate the nation’s intelligence agencies against foreign threats.

Thomas Juneau, a former strategic analyst for Canada’s Department of National Defence, cautioned that Gabbard’s nomination could lead to selective sharing of intelligence. "This would negatively affect the Five Eyes, which is an extremely close partnership premised on an extraordinarily high level of trust," he said.