Senate of the GOP urges gabbard hearing before the inauguration

Senate of the GOP urges gabbard hearing before the inauguration

In Washington, the Republicans in the Senate push the convening of a confirmation hearing for tulsi gabbard before the inauguration of the chosen president Donald Trump. The Democrats, on the other hand, reject it to set an appointment for the next week, since the intelligence agency shot has received important documents for nomination, including an FBI background test, as two informed sources report.

preparations for the hearing

A spokesman for the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, told CNN that the chairman "would like to start the hearings before the inauguration day". This indicates that the hearing has to take place either in this or in the next week to consider Gabard, which Trump selected as director of national intelligence.

Missing documents delay the process

As one of the sources indicates, the Senate Intelligence Committee has not yet received the necessary documents from Gabard to hold a hearing. These include the FBI background test as well as ethical disclosures and a questionnaire for the hearing. These documents must be submitted a week before the hearing.

expected documents and further steps

Another source said that the committee expects the nomination to be processed soon and that all relevant materials, including the Office of Government Ethics, are expected. Gabard has an active security card, so the FBI should be able to speed up the background test. In addition, the committee plans to send an additional pre -hearing questionnaire to the nominee.

Questions about the suitability of gabbard

If the Committee receives the documents by the end of this week, the hearing could take place at the end of next week, with a full week between hearing and receiving the materials.

Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, the highest democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Tuesday that he had "many questions" to Babbard. "This is an extremely important position," said Warner about the role of directors for national intelligence.

criticism of the nomination

The nomination of gabbard is considered controversial and is due to its relative inexperience in the secret service group and its public positions Syria and the war in Ukraine , which many experts for national security as Russian propaganda values.

Especially the skepticism of Gabard compared to comprehensive state surveillance powers and their support for informants who want to reveal some of the most sensitive secrets of the intelligence group could influence their relationship with the authorities that they could soon lead.

insights into their political views

The former MEP from Hawaii has moved into positions that contradict the US foreign policy, such as their meeting with the then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2017 and their statement in 2019 that this was "not an enemy of the United States". At the beginning of 2022, she repeated President Vladimir Putin's justification for the invasion in Ukraine and did not blame Moscow, but the bid administration that she did not recognize "Russia's legitimate security concerns regarding the NATO membership of Ukraine"-a perspective that is popular in some right circles.