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The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, has mismanaged a whistleblower complaint involving Jared Kushner and Iran
pelespirithttps://www.salon.com/2026/03/05/tulsi-gabbards-conflict-of-interest-and-hypocrisy/
I’m surprised that no one has pointed out that since she and her general counsel were subjects of the complaint, Gabbard and her office have a clear conflict of interest in making any determination. This made it clearly inappropriate for them to have played a substantive or even a procedural role in its handling. This is spelled out under a number of different authorities, including executive branch ethics regulations, which cover the DNI, and intelligence community constraints.
It’s baffling, to say the least, that Gabbard did not recuse herself from this matter.
We don’t know why Gabbard continues to aggressively obstruct this whistleblower complaint. It sounds like she’s more concerned with protecting Jared Kushner, and perhaps Trump himself, than the public she’s supposed to serve. But we do know this: The ICWPA system for intelligence community whistleblowers depends on the knowledge, trust, credibility and good faith of the director of national intelligence. It’s a fatal flaw to make that person an intermediary, much less a gatekeeper, on a whistleblower’s path to congressional oversight.
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FiniteBanjoTulsi Gabbard was outed as a Russian Agent like 15 years ago or some shit.
ZerlynaBetween Pete H and Kristi’s antics the last few months I had completely forgotten about Tulsi. Her shit is slipping under the radar.
mojofrododojoHer shit is slipping under the radar.
governing by gish gallop: produce so many scandals the opposition is paralyzed trying to deal with the latest outrage.
MelodiousFunkIt’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Computer, end simulation.
…sigh. It never works, but I have to keep trying.
Don’t forget her skunk stripe.
I’m perplexed at how someone who looks so fucking evil was ever hiding it. It’s not the skunk stripe, per se, but it’s the whole vibe.
She looks like the person who comes to tell you that your body’s been selected for secondment (getting get outed, basically) by the musk type character, and not to worry, your family will be given a generous settlement and now your body can be used to do great things.
She looks like she’d force children to give up their puppies so she can put them in the puppy crushing machine as the sound of their little snapping bones is the only thing that helps with her headaches.
so she can put them in the puppy crushing machine
operated by kristi noem.
Exactly! And then she’d condescendingly explain that crying really doesn’t help her headache, so unless you have another puppy or aren’t especially attached to your younger sister…
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She does look good (unless you mean morally). Just very scary polished, like someone who works for someone rich enough to bury you alive.
To be fair, I guess she does.
she isn’t chock-fulla-plastic like so many of the other trump acolytes.
otherwise she’s pretty gross but ymmv, everyone has their own fetishes
tho, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine vibes I can get.
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Mismanaged? This is working exactly as designed…
The first Trump administration literally interfered to get Kushner top secret clearance in the first place, too!
From Wikipedia.
It’s literally a crime family. Conservatives always accuse others of what they’re doing or what they want to do. They claimed the Bidens were a whole crime family for years. Hmm
“Oopsie”
Definitely not on purpose…
Actively block and retaliate against… Is not mismanagement