The victim of propaganda. New US intelligence department

The US Senate approved former congresswoman Talsey Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

The US Senate approved former congresswoman Talsey Gabbard as director of national intelligence. He blamed the United States and NATO at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and also met with the defeated Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

Responsibilities in the post

The director of National Intelligence has formally the head of the US intelligence community, with 18 various departments, including the CIA, the FBI and subordinates in the Ministry of Intelligence Defense.

The director coordinated the work between them, but they did not directly comply with him. In addition, it is his office that the So -Called Daily Presidential Resume – a secret collection of intelligence, depends on the President’s table every morning.

This position was created after attacks on September 11, 2001, if insufficient coordination and exchange of information between special services is called among factors that do not prevent attacks .

An important task of this office is the exchange of intelligence with allies. The coordination of American intelligence services and control of what information received by US allies has received, make this position greatly influenced.

Adverse statements

Talsey Gabbard has no experience with intelligence, but there is a train of conflicting statements. “Too often, it sounds like he’s repeating the Kremlin propaganda regarding Ukraine,” said retired American diplomat Ian Kelly. He added that Gabbard’s appointment could negatively affect the level of confidence and exchange of intelligence between the United States and its allies.

Gabbard expressed anxiety about American biolaborars in Ukraine after Russian and media diplomats distributed this topic, and on the first day of Russia’s entire -scale raid stated that the war could be prevented if the administration of the administration Biden and NATO simply recognize Russia’s legitimate remembrance of Ukraine’s entry into NATO “.

For these statements, he was included in the list of speakers of “advanced narratives in Russian propaganda,” compiled by the Center for Combating Disinformation under Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council.

In January 2017, without coordination with the American Secret Trip to Syria. According to the journey, published after his return, in Syria he was twice as adopted by Bashar Al -assad, and also met his wife, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the UN ambassador.

Gabbard also questioned the conclusions of American intelligence that the Syrian army used chemical weapons, and tried to introduce full Syrian opposition as militants associated with ISIS or Al-Qaeda, while the CIA provided limited Support opposition detachments.

At a hearing on the US Senate’s intelligence committee in January this year, Gabbard said he had not yet decided on Assad and asked poor questions about his regime’s actions. He responded that he did not comply with the Russian state media and seek to tell the fact that it would be a repeat of Russian propaganda.

From Democrats to Trump

Prior to his appointment with the National Intelligence Director’s post, Gabbard was known primarily as a foreign -American policy critic. He achieved this reputation for eight years in the US Congress, where he represented the 2nd District of Hawaii. A critical position is the result of its in parallel career in the US National Guard, the American Army’s reserve. He joined the army voluntarily during the war with terrorism, declared after the September 11 attack, rose to the rank of reconnaissance Lieutenant Colonel and received a medal for the commendable service.

Formations in Iraq and Kuwait made from Gabbard a criticism of US interruption in conflicts in the Middle East. In 2012, when it was first elected to Congress, this position was not contradictory to the democratic party – President Barack Obama, heading it, wanted to limit American participation in foreign wars.

Nancy Peloshi called the Congresswoman as an upward star of the Democrats, and in the first year in Congress she became the Vice-Chairman of the National Committee Party. But soon the paths of Gabbard and the elite separated.

During the 2016 election campaign, Congresswoen left the National Committee’s vice-chairman post because he thought it was neutral-and Gabbard wanted to see Bernie Sanders, rather than Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.

In 2020, he declined to relate to Congress to focus on the primaries of the president of the democratic party, but quickly left the racing. When unemployed in Washington, Gabbard launched the podcast and became a permanent guest of television shows. His criticism of the Democrats became more difficult and more difficult; The official exit from the Party followed in 2022. Finally, last year he joined Republicans and supported Trump’s candidacy for the President.