Intelligence Newsletter President Tom Cotton will help drive Tulsi Gabbard’s controversial appointment to become Director of National Intelligence (DNI) past the Senate’s first hurdle this week. I did.
Gabbard successfully advanced the Intel Committee this week.
Cotton is a makeshift Gabbard confirmation of “war room” and Sen. Kirsten Cinema, former independence of the rebels in Arizona, and Sen. Richard Burr, former chairman of the North Carolina Intel Committee. He led the assistance. A source of the GOP Senate with knowledge of cotton efforts.
The “cordially calculated” campaign to confirm DNI’s candidate for President Donald Trump is working closely between the White House legislative team Gabbard’s confirmed Sherpa team and former Senator Vice President JD Vance I saw it.
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Tom Cotton made a calculated effort to pass the Inter Commission and win Tarsi Gabbard. (Reuters/Getty Images)
This group assisted Gabbard in each step of the process. They helped them develop a last-minute strategy to address candidate questions submitted to the committee, questions from lawmakers, preparation for hearings and even lingering concerns, sources said.
Gabbard, a former Democrat, wrote the operation at Newsweek after detailing “Why am I the right choice to lead the National Intelligence Agency?”
This article covered some important concerns for Republicans that have not yet been decided. He refused to call NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a traitor.
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Moscow Russia’s national security director Tarsigabad, left, and whistleblower Edward Snowden nomie, right (AP/Getty)
” Given the interests of committee members as to whether Edward Snowden should be called a ‘traitor’, what I shared with the Senate Intelligence Committee on why I don’t casually throw that terminology here is That’s right. By death, however, politicians like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former US Senator Mitt Romney have slandered me, Donald Trump Jr., and others, making baseless accusations of rebellion. “I did,” she wrote.
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Cotton is the chairman of the Intel Committee. (Anna money maker/Getty image)
Cotton also reportedly advised the White House that it was particularly convincing for the senator’s important votes. According to a source with the GOP Senator, he remained in close contact with the Trump administration through the Gabbard process, leading up to the pivotal vote on the Intel committee.
Cinema, who recently retired from the Senate, spoke with two of her former Senate colleagues, Sen. Todd Young and R-Maine’s Susan Collins. The source said. Also deployed to speak to committee members was former Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien.
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Senator Young came out in favor of Gabbard hours before the committee vote. (Reuters)
Cotton also has Senate majority leader John Tune, Rs.D. , and stayed in touch with his office during the process. .
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Before Gabbard’s committee hearing, Cotton met with the nominees, including Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, committee members Mike Rounds, Rs.D. , and Burr, prepared for over an hour to deal with Republicans on a particular committee. ‘Concerns, the source said.
Now, Trump’s DNI picks need to overcome procedural votes across the Senate before moving on to the final confirmation vote. But Gabbard’s success on the committee portrays a good fortune for her, considering she locked in some more hesitant Senate Republican support, which is expected to continue supporting her on the chamber floor. is.
Julia Johnson is a political writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business and is a major reporter in the US Senate. She was previously a political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
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