She keeps saying it is the President’s job to determine if there is in fact an imminent threat to the US. It is her actual job to provide him with the accurate threat assessment from the investigation she has carried out. Then he can weigh that information she has delivered to him to make his decision.
Sadly, she cannot even tell Congress the truth. And she knows the truth.
“Let me tell you something, Sen Ossoff. Do you care to know why I'm in this chair with you all? I mean, why I earn the big bucks? I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what Donald Trump would want me to say - and then say that. I’m a toady. That's it. Nothing more. And sitting here today, I'm afraid that I can’t say the truthful thing.”
The DNI since its creation in 2004 was actually staffed by serious people who attempted to oversee and coordinate the sprawling US intelligence agencies and staffs and provide useful information and assessments o the President and Congress. No more apparently.
"[T]he only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.”
You're providing the threat information to the president. You were once a candidate for the presidency. Are you saying you have no opinion on this question? If not, why did you run for president?
Inasmuch as the US already has the CIA, the FBI, the various intelligence units with the DODnowDOW, and who knows how many other Intelligence gathering Agencies within the Federal bureaucracy, it's not at all clear why the DNI is needed. Other than, apparently, to give out jobs and titles to campaign supporters. And in Gabbard's case, to co-opt a campaign supporter who's in disagreement with Trump's own Mideast policy goals.
She keeps saying it is the President’s job to determine if there is in fact an imminent threat to the US. It is her actual job to provide him with the accurate threat assessment from the investigation she has carried out. Then he can weigh that information she has delivered to him to make his decision.
Sadly, she cannot even tell Congress the truth. And she knows the truth.
“Let me tell you something, Sen Ossoff. Do you care to know why I'm in this chair with you all? I mean, why I earn the big bucks? I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what Donald Trump would want me to say - and then say that. I’m a toady. That's it. Nothing more. And sitting here today, I'm afraid that I can’t say the truthful thing.”
[Apologies to Jeremy Irons']
The DNI since its creation in 2004 was actually staffed by serious people who attempted to oversee and coordinate the sprawling US intelligence agencies and staffs and provide useful information and assessments o the President and Congress. No more apparently.
"[T]he only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.”
You're providing the threat information to the president. You were once a candidate for the presidency. Are you saying you have no opinion on this question? If not, why did you run for president?
Inasmuch as the US already has the CIA, the FBI, the various intelligence units with the DODnowDOW, and who knows how many other Intelligence gathering Agencies within the Federal bureaucracy, it's not at all clear why the DNI is needed. Other than, apparently, to give out jobs and titles to campaign supporters. And in Gabbard's case, to co-opt a campaign supporter who's in disagreement with Trump's own Mideast policy goals.
This is crucial reporting. Why doesn’t NYT & WaPo cover it?