Matt Gaetz was simply a jerk and an immoral scum bag and possible a rapist and unqualified, and probably would have politized the Justice Department. That's could have been bad. Anyway, he is gone.
Hegpath is unqualified and has limited administrative experience. He could screw up America's military readiness by firing a bunch of generals who do not put loyalty to Trump over loyalty to the country. However, it takes a long time to change the culture of the military, and his damage, assuming he is confirmed, may be limited.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaxxer nutjob who could endanger the nation's health, especially should we have a national health emergency. Even if we do not have a new national health emergency, having him in charge of health could reduce the number of people who get vaccinated and we could see a resurgence of diseases that were virtually eradicated and people could die, especially young children. Still yet, his tenure as Secretary of Health has less potential to damage the country than that of Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard has been nominated for Director of National Intelligence, a position that oversees eighteen national security agencies. including the CIA. She could betray her country and there is reason to think she would. If she did not betray our country, she could harm our country. If she is the Director of National Intelligence, other countries may decide it is a risk to share intelligence information with the United States. This could advantage our adversaries. It is hard to estimate the damage she could do to our country and the world.
Below are links and excerpts from several articles explaining why Tulsi Gabbard is a national security risk.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk
By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, Nov. 13, 2024- Gabbard is stunningly unqualified for almost any Cabinet post ... She has no qualifications as an intelligence professional—literally none.... She has no significant experience directing or managing much of anything. ...
Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, attempting to position herself as something like a peace candidate. But she’s no peacemaker: She’s been an apologist for both the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Her politics, which are otherwise incoherent, tend to be sympathetic to these two strongmen, painting America as the problem and the dictators as misunderstood. ... Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson—a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now—have taken a liking to the former Democrat ...
In early 2017, while still a member of Congress, Gabbard met with Assad, saying that peace in Syria was only possible if the international community would have a conversation with him. “Let the Syrian people themselves determine their future, not the United States, not some foreign country,” Gabbard said, after chatting with a man who had stopped the Syrian people from determining their own future by using chemical weapons on them. Two years later, she added that Assad was “not the enemy of the United States, because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States,” and that her critics were merely “warmongers.”
... Gabbard has every right to her personal views, however inscrutable they may be. As a private citizen, she can apologize for Assad and Putin to her heart’s content. But as a security risk, Gabbard is a walking Christmas tree of warning lights. If she is nominated to be America’s top intelligence officer, that’s everyone’s business. (read more)
How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media
By Steven Lee Myers, Jim Rutenberg and Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2024- In 2017, when she was still a Democratic member of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met the country’s authoritarian president, Bashar al-Assad. She also accused the United States of supporting terrorists there.
The day after Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ms. Gabbard blamed the United States and NATO for provoking the war by ignoring Russia’s security concerns.
She has since suggested that the United States covertly worked with Ukraine on dangerous biological pathogens and was culpable for the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany in September 2022. European prosecutors and U.S. officials say that sabotage was carried out by Ukrainian operatives.
Ms. Gabbard’s comments have earned her sharp rebukes from officials across the political spectrum in Washington, who have accused her of parroting the anti-American propaganda of the country’s adversaries. Her remarks have also made her a darling of the Kremlin’s vast state media apparatus .... according to analysts and former officials, Ms. Gabbard seems to simply share the Kremlin’s geopolitical views, especially when it comes to the exercise of American military power.
In Russia, the reaction to her potential appointment has been gleeful, ... “The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. are trembling,” Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian newspaper, wrote on Friday in a glowing profile of Ms. Gabbard, noting, positively, that Ukrainians consider her “an agent of the Russian state.” Rossiya-1, a state television channel, called her a Russian “comrade” in Mr. Trump’s emerging cabinet.
... “This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US/NATO forces right on Russia’s border,” she wrote on Twitter, now known as X, when the war began in February 2022.
A month later, she posted a video on the platform saying the United States was operating 25 to 30 biological research labs in Ukraine. She accused the Biden administration of covering them up and said they could release dangerous pathogens, though she stopped short of claiming the labs were making biological weapons, as Russia has falsely claimed.
... Vladimir Solovyov, a popular talk show host, called her “our girlfriend” in a segment in 2022. The program included an interview Ms. Gabbard did with Tucker Carlson in which she claimed that Mr. Biden’s goal was to end Mr. Putin’s control of the Russian government, according to Julia Davis, the creator of the Russian Media Monitor, which tracks Kremlin propaganda.
.. In some cases, she echoed story lines that Russia’s propagandists created, which the Russians then recycled on their own media as evidence that the conspiracy theories they had manufactured were true. (read more of this insightful article)
Wall Street Journal: Tulsi Gabbard vs. Trump’s First Term
Independent, Nov. 21, 2024: Nikki Haley issues scathing takedown of ‘Russian sympathizer’ Tulsi Gabbard and ‘liberal’ RFK Jr
The Economist, Nov. 24, 3024- Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks. ... Ms Gabbard’s Russophile tendencies are particularly jarring. “Democrats”, she complained in her book, “don’t want a peaceful relationship with Russia at all…How would their friends in the military-industrial complex make trillions of dollars from the fear they fomented in America and Europe by stoking the fires of the new cold war?” Some in the intelligence world believe that European agencies might start holding back human-intelligence reports or “sanitising” them of information that would previously have been shared.
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