Hours before Tulsi Gabbard appeared for a combative hearing on her nomination as director of national intelligence on Thursday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gave some public advice to the woman who once pushed for his pardon.
“Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers as a condition of confirmation today. I encourage her to do so. Tell them I harmed national security and the sweet, soft feelings of staff. In D.C., that’s what passes for the pledge of allegiance,” Snowden said on X.
Even after facing more than a dozen questions about Snowden, however, Gabbard refused to back down.
Instead, Gabbard told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Snowden broke the law and that she would no longer push for his pardon — but that he had revealed blatant violations of the Constitution.
No I don’t think I’m psychic. I understand the language you use and have heard your reasoning and appeal to authority before. It’s a waste if time arguing with you as you don’t have the capacity for self reflection and change.
Search my post history and sort by controversial if you have such interest in my credentials.
Your point doesn’t matter, neither does your lived experience. You’re a loud stranger on the Internet and deal in promoting the status quo that got us in this predicament. Likely as not you believe that your slight left take on things will serve your goals. It won’t. Your surface level understanding of the government gives you faith that the US will shrug off the efforts of the incoming administration. That’s not going to be done with the candidates that support the status quo. I’m sure you’ve heard reference to the Vichy Democrats. I’m not drawing a direct parallel. But it didn’t work out well for them in France.