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US Senate confirms Trump nominee Gabbard as intelligence chief

The vote was another victory for Trump as he pushes to secure quick Senate approval for all of his nominees for administration positions.

|ByREUTERS
Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's new director of national intelligence, testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 30, 2025.
US DIRECTOR of National Intelligence-nominee Tulsi Gabbard walks through Capitol Hill last month. The writer asks whether Trump’s intelligence team is equipped to navigate the intricacies of Iran’s hybrid warfare tactics, asymmetric threats, and expanding transnational terrorism networks.

Is Trump's intel team prepared for the challenges of volatile Iran? - opinion

Whether this ambitious task is met will hinge on the team’s ability to navigate the complexities of the Iranian threat with precision, courage, and unwavering commitment.

|ByERFAN FARD
The 12 candidates' podiums stand ready before the fourth U.S. Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio U.S. October 15, 2019.

Democratic debate reveals the candidates’ differences on Middle East

Buttigieg, Biden, Sanders, Klobuchar, Harris, Booker and Castro were supportive of a US presence in Syria, while Warren and Gabbard were adamant about the US military withdrawing from the Middle East

|ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks after being awarded a Frontier Award during a ceremony at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts November 25, 2013

Ex-KKK head, David Duke, praises Tulsi Gabbard because she won't 'put Israel first'

Gabbard has disputed Duke’s interpretation of her anti-intervention rhetoric, which Duke evidently equates with standing up to Israel; instead she says she opposes “regime-change wars.

|ByMARCY OSTER/JTA