The US Senate approved the former Congresswoman Talsey Gabbard as director of national intelligence. She blamed the United States and NATO at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and also met with the overthrown Syrian leader Bashar Assad. Responsibilities as the Director of National Intelligence Formally is the head of the US intelligence community, which includes 18 different departments, including the CIA, the FBI and subordinates to the Ministry of Defense of Intelligence. . In addition, it is her office that is the so -called daily presidential resume - a secret collection of intelligence, which lies on the president’s table every morning. This position was created after the attacks on September 11, 2001, when insufficient coordination and the exchange of information between special services were called among the reasons that the attacks were not prevented. An important task of this office is the exchange of intelligence with allies. Coordination of the efforts of American intelligence and control of what information the US allies receive, make this position an extremely influential. Talsey Gabbard has no conflicting statements in intelligence, but there is a train of conflicting statements. . He added that the appointment of Gabbard can negatively affect the level of trust and the exchange of intelligence between the United States and its allies. Gabbard expressed anxiety about American biolaborations in Ukraine after Russian diplomats and media distributed this topic, and on the first day of the full -scale invasion of Russia stated that the war could be prevented if the Biden and NATO administration simply recognized Russia's legitimate concern for the prospect of Ukraine's entry. For these statements, she was included in the list of speakers “advanced narratives in Russian propaganda”, compiled by the Center for Combating Disinformation under the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. . According to the trip, published after her return, in Syria she was accepted twice Bashar Assad, and also met his wife, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador to the UN. Gabbard also questioned the conclusions of American intelligence that the Syrian army used chemical weapons, and tried to introduce the entire Syrian opposition as militants associated with ISIS or al-Qaeda, while the CIA provided limited support to the opposition detachments. At the hearing in the Intelligence Committee of the US Senate in January this year, Gabbard said that she had never idealized Assad and asked him tough questions about the actions of his regime. She replied that she did not follow the Russian state media and seek to tell the truth to be shown to the repetition of Russian propaganda.. From the Democrats to Trump, to appointment to the post of national intelligence director, Gabbard was known primarily as a critic of American foreign policy. She earned this reputation in eight years in the US Congress, where she represented the 2nd District of Hawaii. A critical position is the result of its parallel career in the US National Guard, the reserve of the American army. She joined the army voluntarily in the era of the war with terror, declared after the attacks of September 11, rose to the rank of reconnaissance lieutenant colonel and received a medal for the commendable service. Formations to Iraq and Kuwait made from Gabbard a criticism of US interference in conflicts in the Middle East. In 2012, when it was first elected to Congress, this position was not contradictory in the Democratic Party - President Barack Obama, who headed it, wanted to limit America's participation in overseas wars. Nancy Peloshi called Congresswoen the Democrats as a star, and already in the first year in Congress, she became the vice-chairman of the National Party Committee. But soon the paths of Gabbard and the party elite dispersed. During the 2016 election campaign, Congresswoen left the post of vice-chairman of the National Committee because he assumed neutral-and Gabbard wanted to see Bernie Sanders, and not Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.

In 2020, she refused to re -election to Congress to focus on the presidential primaries of the Democratic Party, but quickly left the race. Once without work in Washington, Gabbard launched Podkast and became a permanent guest of conservative television shows. Her criticism of the Democrats became tougher and tougher; The official exit from the party followed in 2022. Finally, last year she joined the Commercials and supported Trump's candidacy for president.

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