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GOP Senators Join Calls for Probe of Signal Breach

Trump says it's 'all a witch hunt'

(Newser) - Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is calling for an inspector general investigation of the Signal breach. After the release Wednesday of the full exchange between top-level officials discussing a strike on Yemen, Wicker said he and Sen. Jack Reed, the panel's top Democrat,...

The Atlantic Releases Group War Texts

Says it now believes public 'should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions'

(Newser) - Two days after revealing that its editor-in-chief was included in a group chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration discussed plans for strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Atlantic has published those attack plans. As Jeffrey Goldberg, said editor-in-chief, and staff writer Shane Harris write, in the first...

Pentagon Had Warned Against Using Signal

Department repeated the warning last week, saying Russian hackers are targeting the app

(Newser) - Three days after a journalist was accidentally looped into a Signal group chat with top national security officials discussing military strikes in Yemen, the Pentagon warned the app should not be used even to discuss unclassified information. The department-wide advisory dated March 18 warned Signal's use by "common...

Gabbard: Nothing in Signal Chat Was Classified

Then turn over the transcripts, demands Democratic Sen. Mark Warner

(Newser) - Two of the nation's top intelligence officials were grilled on Tuesday in the Senate over the gaffe with a Signal group chat on war plans. The big friction pitted Democratic senators against Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and CIA chief John Ratcliffe, both of whom participated in the...

Gabbard: 100 Intel Officers Fired for 'Brazen' Conduct

New national intelligence director calls for their termination by Friday over explicit chats

(Newser) - More than 100 intelligence officers across 15 agencies will be fired, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday—but this is no cost-cutting move. Gabbard said she issued a directive to terminate them for participating in sexually explicit conversations on a government chat tool. The New York Times reports...

Trump's Appointees Put Musk's Power to the Test

Patel, Gabbard among agency leaders telling employees not to justify their roles to Musk

(Newser) - Multiple government agencies run by Trump-appointed leaders have told employees not to respond to an email from Elon Musk , demanding they provide five bullet points explaining the work they got done over the past week. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," Musk wrote Saturday on...

Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence

Senate Republicans fall in line, vote to confirm

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard will be overseeing 18 different intelligence agencies as President Trump's director of national intelligence, after the Senate confirmed her for the post on Wednesday. Despite initial Republican doubts about her qualifications for the job, the vote fell largely along party lines, with 52 Senate Republicans voting to...

Tulsi Gabbard Passes Key Vote in Senate

Skeptical Republicans on Senate Intelligence Committee faced pressure from Trump allies

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard has moved a step closer to becoming director of national intelligence. The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee voted 9-8 in a closed-door meeting Tuesday to advance her nomination to a full Senate vote, the Washington Post reports. During her confirmation hearing before the panel last week, senators from both...

Kennedy's Fate May Rest With One Senator on Tuesday

Both he and Tulsi Gabbard face committee votes on their Trump nominations

(Newser) - It's a do-or-die day for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard on their Cabinet nominations. The Senate Finance Committee will vote Tuesday morning on whether to advance Kennedy as health secretary, and the intelligence committee will vote in the afternoon on whether Gabbard should oversee the nation's...

GOP, Dem Senators to Gabbard: 'Is Snowden a Traitor?'

Nominee declined to give a yes or no answer

(Newser) - Republican senators, Democratic senators, and even Edward Snowden urged Tulsi Gabbard to speak out against Edward Snowden at her confirmation hearing, but she steadfastly refused to call the former National Security Agency contractor a traitor. Snowden, who fled to Russia after leaking documents that exposed surveillance programs, was the most...

Senator to Gabbard: It May Be Illegal to Confirm You

Democrat Warner says she doesn't meet federal requirements to be director of national intelligence

(Newser) - It's another big day for confirmation hearings, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. back for a second day in his bid to become health secretary and Kash Patel being grilled as the potential FBI chief. But also on Capitol Hill Thursday is Tulsi Gabbard, chosen by President Trump to become...

A Hare Krishna Offshoot Has Guided Gabbard's Views

Nominee for national intelligence post had an unorthodox upbringing in Hawaii

(Newser) - Of all President Trump's still-to-be-confirmed nominees, Tulsi Gabbard may have the toughest odds, reports the Hill . The former congresswoman, who may oversee the nation's spy agencies as the director of national intelligence, will be grilled this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, where she cannot lose a single...

McConnell May Hold Key to Gabbard's Nomination

If former GOP Senate leader wavers, it could sink her chances for national intelligence post

(Newser) - In public and in private, Mitch McConnell has been silent on whether he'll support President-elect Trump's nominees, sources tell Axios . And for those working on behalf of former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence , the silence is becoming alarming. Gabbard's team...

Gabbard Makes Key Reversal Amid Nomination Fight

DNI pick backs an intel-gathering tool she formerly opposed

(Newser) - This will be a busy week of confirmation hearings for many of President-elect Trump's Cabinet nominees, but one of his more controversial picks probably won't be among them. Democrats appear to have successfully delayed the hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence...

Dems Suggest Tulsi Gabbard Is 'Compromised'

Republicans are pushing back hard against the claims

(Newser) - Republican senators pushed back on Sunday against criticism from Democrats that Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump's pick to lead US intelligence services, is "compromised" by her comments supportive of Russia as well as secret meetings she attended as a congresswoman with Syria's president, a close ally of the...

Trump Picks Gabbard for Top Intelligence Job

Former Democrat who joined GOP last month is his choice for director of national intelligence

(Newser) - Donald Trump announced a former Democrat as his choice for a Cabinet role on Wednesday. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an Army veteran who ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, is Trump's pick for director of national intelligence. CNN predicts that the choice will "set off a...

Trump Canceled 'Make America Healthy Again' Event

He pulls out of health-themed town hall with RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, in yet another cancellation

(Newser) - Donald Trump has nixed another debate with rival Kamala Harris, canceled various interviews , and even pulled out of an NRA rally in the final lead-up to Election Day. Now, another cancellation to throw onto the pile: A virtual "Make America Healthy Again" town hall that the former president was...

Tulsi Gabbard Hit With Very Hawaiian Criticism

Her endorsement of Trump is 'not pono,' says her successor in Congress

(Newser) - Representing Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, Rep. Jill Tokuda follows in the footsteps of Tulsi Gabbard, who held the same seat from 2013 to 2021. But Tokuda will not follow Gabbard in the direction of Donald Trump. Tokuda has criticized the former Democrat, now independent, for endorsing the former president...

2 Big Names Added to Trump Transition Team

RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard will join Trump's sons, Vance

(Newser) - After their high-profile endorsements of Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have been named to his transition team, the New York Times reports. The team is responsible for assisting Trump with the selection of personnel and adopting of policies for a second Trump administration, should there be...

A Former Dem Candidate for President Backs Trump

Tulsi Gabbard endorses the former president

(Newser) - Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent in the 2020 presidential election and linking herself to critiques of Vice President Kamala Harris and the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal . Gabbard, a National Guard veteran who served two tours...

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