Tulsi Gabard has been sworn in as the new chief supervisor of the US secret services. The former democrat is now on Trump's side and is considered controversial – among other things because of her attitude to the Ukraine War.
In the future, the superior supervision of the US intelligence agencies will be in the hands of Tulsi Gabbard. In the past, the ex-MP had shown a lot of understanding for Russia's President Vladimir Putin and criticized NATO because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Gabard had been criticized for this.
Nevertheless, the Senate in Washington confirmed the 43-year-old with a narrow majority as a national secret service director. The chamber gave gabbard with 52 against 48 votes its necessary approval. This is a success for US President Donald Trump's personnel policy.
Only one vote against the Republicans
Gabard is one of the most controversial candidates that Trump has selected for his government team. Since she was also confronted with republican senators during her hearing with critical questions, her candidacy was temporarily considered shaky.
In the vote, however, there was only one voice against Gabbard from the ranks of the Republicans: she came from Mitch McConnell, who was the leader of his party in the Senate for many years and has always gone to Trump.
Controversial statements about Russia and Syria
Gabard had assigned responsibility to the West a few hours after the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago: it accused the United States and NATO of overriding the Russian security interests – an argument that is with the official line of the Kremls covers.
Gabard is also controversial because of her attitude to the Syrian Civil War. She had denied that the ruler Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons, who had fallen last December, had used-and thus contradicted US intelligence skills. In 2017 she visited Assad.
Gabard used to be with the Democrats
The Babbard, who came from the US outdoor area, used to belong to the Democrats and was sitting for the state of Hawaii in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021.
As a national secret service director, she will be responsible for supervising and coordinating the work of the 18 US secret services. It is also their job to provide the president every day with the most important current intelligence information.
AP reporter again excluded from white house
Gabard's swearing -in took place in the White House. A reporter from the US news agency Associated Press (AP), who was denied the reporting the previous day, was again not allowed to participate.
When asked about the repeated restriction, the Press spokeswoman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said the Trump government wanted to protect itself from “lies” of the media. “We reserve the right to decide who can go to the Oval Office,” said Leavitt to journalists.
In doing so, she pointed out that it was “a fact” that the waters off the coast of Louisiana's Golf of America “. “And I'm not sure why the news agencies don't want to call him that, but that's how it is.” US President Trump had signed a decree immediately after taking office, which, among other things, provided for the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to “Golf of America”.
US President Trump had renamed the Gulf of Mexico by decree to “Gulf of America”. A corresponding map is in the Oval Office in the White House.
Ap-Editor -in -chief names the process “alarming”
AP editor-in-chief Julie Pace announced on Tuesday that her reporter in connection with the renaming of the Golf of Mexico into “Golf of America” was “prevented” in signing a decree of Trump in the Oval Office.
Pace called the process “alarming”. To restrict the agency access to the White House due to the content of the AP language regulation, “not only disabled the public for independent messages”. This also “clearly violated the first constitutional addition”.
AP is the largest news agency in the USA. Your linguistic set of rules has been part of the standard reading for news editors and company offices for years.
