A top spy chief has given President Trump a hair -raising warning, in which he warns him of the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as director of the National Intelligence Service.
Former head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in Great Britain, Sir John Sawers, Gabbards described possible climb to the highest espionage post as 'difficult', and said that there seems to be no 'general global plan' behind the choice of Trump.
“I think senators have a great responsibility to ensure that only people who are suitable for top positions penetrate them, especially those in the most sensitive areas,” Sowers told CNN on Saturday.
“The United States is the most powerful intelligence community in the world, and one of their biggest challenges is Russia, and another (of their) biggest challenges is China.”
The spy chef expressed her concerns about the 'pro-Russian' views of Gabbard throughout her career, in which critics also pointed to her comments from the past about the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as 'no enemy' after she put him on in 2017 had met controversially.
“To have someone who is director of the National Intelligence Service and who actually uses a very pro-Russian approach, that seems very difficult to me, and it also makes it difficult for the American partners,” Sawers continued.
“How do you deal with an intelligence community in which the highest figure in it, the cabinet member, actually sympathizes with our greatest enemy.”
The comments from Sawers come at a time when Gabbard's nomination is at stake after Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth has passed the smallest margin this week, with at least three Republican senators indicating that they will not vote to confirm her.
A top spy chief has issued a hair -raising warning to President Trump in which he warns him of the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as director of the National Intelligence Service
Sir John Sawers, former head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in Great Britain, expressed his concern about Gabbards 'Pro-Russian' views throughout her career this week
The same Republican senators who have rejected Hegseeth, Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, all said they will not support Gabbard either.
Hegseeth needed a decisive voice from JD Vance to confirm him as Minister of Defense of Donald Trump, after a last-minute meeting with the naughty Republican Senator Thom Tillis.
When Vance heard the outcome, he joked on social media: “I thought I had finished voting in the Senate.”
Now that all fifty Democrats are expected to vote against her, this means that Gabbard cannot afford to lose one republican voice when her confirmation hearing starts on January 30.
Gabbard, a former Democratic Congressman from Hawaii, has difficulty getting support from members of her old party since she moved to Trump during the elections.
She has made the tackling of the so-called 'Deep State' a characteristic of her political shift, which, like Hegseeth and FBI choice Kash Patel, has made some in Washington.
Patel, a former federal prosecutor who worked in Trump's first government, publicly stated on countless occasions how he wants to dismantle the 'Deep State' and even published a book about federal corruption in 2023 with the title 'Government gangsters'.
Gabbard was also skeptical about the intelligence community and even showed its resistance by visiting the former Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad in 2017 during what she considered a 'research mission'.
They are expected to break through the status quo and a new era of Trump-friendly sentiments for the FBI and the office of the director of the National Intelligence Service.
Hegseeth was accused of assault in 2017, but he denied the claims and was never charged. Although a report appeared on Thursday that showed that he had paid the prosecutor $ 50,000
After confirming Hegseeth this week, Donald Trump seemed optimistic when he stated in his first comments about the approval on Friday that 'winning is the most important thing'.
Trump was on the asphalt of Lax on Friday after a visit to the forest fires in California, when he was asked about his opinion about the confirmation after he said he had spoken with Hegseeth.
“We have just heard that we have a great defense minister, we are very happy with that and we appreciate everyone's voice,” Trump said under the sound of Air Force One.
When he was asked about the 'no' voice of McConnell, who had jokingly predicted Trump, the president answered: “I didn't know, I just know we won.”
When McConnell insisted on his voice again, he said again that he did not know it had happened and he repeated: 'I just heard that we won. Winning is what it's all about, right? “
