Tulsi Gabbard told US Senators at a hearing to confirm her as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that she has “no love for Assad or Gaddafi or any dictator” as her critics have said, “I just hate al Qaeda.” Gabbard has faced some tough questioning from Senators, both Republicans, who control the US Senate, and Democrats, on several issues on which she has spoken before, taking positions contrary to that of the administration. She denied Assad had used chemical weapons on his own people and said it was a mistake to help in the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. She also faced questions about her past defence of Edward Snowden, the NSA intelligence contractor, who leaked a large number of classified documents and currently lives in Russia. And her positions on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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