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Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee for the Director of National Intelligence, denied Thursday that she had any “love” for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but that she hated al-Qaeda even more, and was enraged when the Obama administration armed the terrorists in an attempt to topple him.
Gabbard was grilled for nearly three hours during an open session in the Senate Intelligence Committee, before taking more questions behind closed doors to discuss sensitive intelligence.
Democrat Senators zeroed in on a previous trip Gabbard had made to Syria and Lebanon.
As a Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, Gabbard met with al-Assad in 2017, after the United States had called on him to step down over alleged atrocities committed by his government.
“I asked him tough questions about his own regime’s actions, the use of chemical weapons and the brutal tactics that were being used against his own people,” she told Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) about the controversial meeting.
Gabbard said she didn’t sense any concessions or signs of remorse in him.
“No, and I didn’t expect to, but I felt these issues were important to address,” she said.
Gabbard also…
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