A RECKONING FOR THE DEEP STATE: Fearless Truth-Teller Tulsi Gabbard to Head Intelligence Community

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection for director of national intelligence will send shockwaves through the political establishment.

Tulsi Gabbard, a fearless truth-teller who found herself outside the Democratic Party because she wasn’t afraid to buck the Left’s narratives, will be taking the reins at the very intelligence community she herself has loudly condemned.

A veteran and active-duty Army reservist, Gabbard has loudly criticized the censorship-industrial complex and has taken aim at the Left’s sacred cows. A former Democrat who served in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021 and who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Gabbard has since joined the Republican Party and backed Trump, in part due to her disgust over the way government agencies and Big Tech censored her, Trump, and conservatives.

Trump announced Wednesday that he will tap her as director of national intelligence.

“I know Tulsi will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our intelligence community, championing our constitutional rights, and securing peace through strength,” the president-elect said in a statement. “Tulsi will make us all proud!”

Trump noted Gabbard’s three deployments to war zones in the Middle East and Africa, her rejection of the Democratic Party, and her role as co-chair on his transition team.

“She puts country before party and approaches every issue, domestic and foreign, based on ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people,” he said of Gabbard.

Gabbard’s emphasis on freedom, and free speech in particular, stands out. She has repeatedly condemned Big Tech censorship, even encouraging then-President Donald Trump to take action against the protection from liability that social media companies enjoy under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. She had previously spoken out after Google censored her ads ahead of a Democratic primary debate in 2020.

In her September speech endorsing Trump, she hailed the Republican as “our best hope” to “stop the censorship of free speech in America.”

She said she never imagined that she would live in an America where “we couldn’t criticize our own government for fear of them labeling us as a domestic terrorist, but this is the country that we live in.”

“The very next day after I did an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News and I talked about how dangerous [Vice President] Kamala Harris would be as our president and commander in chief, I was added to a secret domestic terror watchlist called ‘Quiet Skies,’” Gabbard noted at the time.

She warned against the Biden administration’s “political retaliation” against free speech it finds inconvenient.

She rightly spoke out about the Twitter Files, which revealed how the Biden administration colluded with Big Tech to censor Americans who questioned the official narratives on COVID-19, election irregularities in 2020, and more.

Last July, Gabbard noted that President Harry Truman, the man who created the Central Intelligence Agency, later noted that he had been “disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational, and at times, a policymaking arm of the government.”

“All federal agencies exist to serve the American people,” Gabbard wrote at the time. “We cannot allow any unelected federal agencies/bureaucrats to operate outside the Constitution, undermine our civil liberties, and create their own foreign policies.”

In March 2023, Gabbard told me why she left the Democratic Party. She said the party’s elites “are controlled by this elite cabal of warmongers, they are intent on undermining our God-given rights and freedoms that are enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they are rejecting the reality of objective truth and biology and trying to erase us a women.” (This last statement referred to gender ideology, which stipulates that an internal sense of gender overrides the biology of male and female.)

She condemned the FBI’s reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center in the infamous memo targeting “radical-traditional Catholics.” She lamented “the weaponization of institutions and agencies within our federal government who exist for the purpose of serving the people but are being weaponized against the very people they are supposed to be serving.”

Gabbard was not afraid to condemn gender ideology. “We have people in positions of power who deny that there is such a thing as objective truth, such as the biological difference between a male and a female,” she said. “We have no guardrails in our society. We have no floor and no ceiling if there is no such thing as truth and if the only truth that exists is what the people in power say it is.”

“They think they’re God,” she said of the elites pushing gender ideology.

The idea that a fearless truth-teller like Tulsi Gabbard will be taking the helm of the intelligence community warms my heart and gives me hope that the incoming administration will take the threat of government weaponization seriously. With God’s help, America may yet reverse the terrifying trends we saw in the last four years.

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