Posted on 01/09/2025 4:14:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mouaz Moustafa says Gabbard’s response to Assad’s atrocities is a worrisome sign of how she’d serve as director of national intelligence.
As executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a nonprofit established to respond to attacks on civilians by former dictator Bashar al-Assad, Mouaz Moustafa has shared crucial information with the U.S. government about the war in Syria. But he isn’t sure he’d continue doing so if Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence. And it wouldn’t surprise him if U.S. allies around the world followed suit.
“If Tulsi Gabbard is running our intelligence services, France, UK, Australia… if I was them, I wouldn’t share intelligence with us,” he said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine.
Moustafa has spoken with Gabbard or been in meetings with her several times, and he was struck by Gabbard’s lack of outrage at Assad’s atrocities. He has talked about some of those meetings before, but he discussed these encounters in more detail in the interview.
Ultimately, he came away increasingly concerned that her aims and worldview were at odds with the U.S. mission in Syria and U.S. foreign policy more broadly. Gabbard is among Trump’s most controversial nominees, drawing criticism from Democrats and some conservatives for commentary that often echoes propaganda pushed by U.S. adversaries like Russia.
Alexa Henning, a Trump transition spokesperson, rejected Moustafa’s charges. Henning said Gabbard has referred to Assad as a “brutal dictator” and noted that families of hostages held by terrorists in Syria had written a letter supporting her nomination.
“Lt. Col. Gabbard’s views have been shaped...
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PS - Tulsi has the right enemies.
Mouaz Moustafa a terrorist seen grinning in a photo with ISIS leaders... doesn’t like Tulsi.
A damned Sunni wahabbist has a problem with an uppity woman. What a surprise.
“and he was struck by Gabbard’s lack of outrage at Assad’s atrocities.”
Like the fake gas attack?
I like Tulsi Gabbard. She appears to be logical. You do not see that in a woman too often.
Tulsi is not bombastic; I would think that would be a plus for her next job.
“Ultimately, he came away increasingly concerned that her aims and worldview were at odds with the U.S. mission in Syria and U.S. foreign policy more broadly”
I like how he speaks about US foreign policy as though it was something enshrined that everyone must defer to, like the Constitution. Here’s the thing sport, she isn’t being hired to accept US foreign policy, she is being hired to CREATE it.
Deal with it haji.
“ Tulsi is not bombastic;”
No. She still talks like a career politician though.
Mouaz Moustafa is a Narrative engineer for the Muslim Brotherhood [and McCain pal].
OF COURSE he would have a problem with Tulsi Gabbard - she doesn’t do sheep like him and his buds do.
So, she played the politician when she had to, until finally just saying to hell with it.
I can both respect and forgive her for that, since she has company in both Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Tulsi,
Was my Congress critter for a few years.
I never voted for her as she like most military officers are
scared schiff-less of the lower ranked people having guns, she is anti 2A.
She knows what trained soldiers(or civilians) can do.
But other than that she seems to be OK and a better choice
than some idiot who could not even get close to being a Light Colonel in our military.
Agree.
Tulsi has ALL of the right concern trolls.
A hatchet job by John McCain’s pet Islamic radical.
Tulsi probably didn’t believe the White Helmet psyops either which probably pissed off the terrorist.
What was Reagan’s hidden politics?
I'm curious which 3-letter Agency pays his salary?
I believe she's changed her position on both 2A and nationalized health-care, around the time she was forced out of the Democrat Party.
I'll defer to anyone who knows her daily pronouncements and follows her closer than I do....
BINGO
“But he isn’t sure he’d continue doing so if Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence. And it wouldn’t surprise him if U.S. allies around the world followed suit.”
That’s ok, we’ll get it from the Israelis!
When she joins GOA,
I’ll believe the 2A part.
As for national Health care,
I won’t comment,
I’m in the VA system(which I earned)
and in Hawaii it works fine for me.
My wife and I are both in Medicare
and we pay for her part C.
We go to the same hospitals. see the same doctors.
I only enrolled in Medicare because the Congress
can change the rules at any time or I would
cease my monthly Medicare payment.
Tulsi Gabbard is THE critical appointment for the incoming administration, and she will probably not be confirmed, for the sole reason that the Senate Republicans will want to show Trump who is boss.
The “Deep State” has many aspects, not all related to each other - but the “intelligence community” has been running an independent foreign policy since 1947-49, they are not subject to the orders of the President - any President - and they are not about to stop now since the end of the Ukraine war is going to leave them very exposed.
I don’t think the Senate will confirm ANY DNI except a John Bolton or John Brennan.
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