Posted on 07/19/2025 9:14:44 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Friday bashed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
“Tulsi Gabbard is not competent to be the director of national intelligence,” he told moderator Peter Baker at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. “I believe she is trying to politicize the workforce and work product, and that makes America less safe.”
His comments came just before Gabbard released a Friday report alleging that Obama-era officials engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” to alter intelligence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people,” Gabbard said.
The intelligence community has long concluded that Russia sought to influence the 2016 election.
Warner later on Friday railed against Gabbard’s report in a statement, citing the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, which “reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure.'”
“This conclusion was supported on a unanimous basis by every single Democrat and Republican on the committee,” the long-time critic of Gabbard wrote, noting that the probe found that social media was used to benefit President Trump’s election.
A DNI official pushed back on Warner’s remarks Friday, calling him a “loser.”
“Since he’s dumb enough to fall for politicized intelligence like the debunked Russia Hoax, I think we’re good not taking advice from him,” Gabbard’s deputy chief of staff Alexa Henning wrote on the social media platform X.
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Projection is a worthless defence mechanism especially when it’s so obvious.
“Since he’s dumb enough to fall for politicized intelligence...”
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To say he “fell” for it is wrongly assigning integrity to this slime ball. Never give these corrupt actors an out, by implying they simply were fooled. No. They knew what was going on. Everyone of them knew. Just like most here at FreeRepublic knew.
Demonrat SOP: Open mouth, insert foot.
HE SHOULD LOOK INTO A MIRROR!
They would do well to remember that they’re the ones that let that genie out of the bottle. I’d advise them not to get pissed off now that we’re the ones making wishes.
The real incompetence in the Senate is Warner,,,,,Tulsi is so far ahead of Warner its a joke. Warner is afraid of the truth.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard: Mark Warner ‘not competent’
That’s right, senator, shoot the messenger so her spattering blood detracts from the message. Still the 3rd grade at the Senate, I see.
Of course he claims she’s incompetent. The leaders of his party are about ready to face overdue justice.
Mark Warner confirms Tulsi as being over the target (Warner).
The fact he is talking smack about Tulsi Gabbard should give everyone even more confidence in her.
Precisely. Triple A is a strong indicator of being over target.
Obviously hates Pacific Islanders and Hindus.
“All of Virginia’s senators are carpetbaggers from the North, installed by the Dem party.”
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...and an GOP establishment that is both simultaneously incompetent and nefarious.
Didn’t he pen a book depicting ...
We sure are “going political”, Mr. Warner.
Trump learned the game and taught us.
Dims are big mad.
Mark, that is all Russia disinformation.
Caught a sad, Mark? Tulsi showed what we long suspected was true. Don’t like truth, Mark?
Just a little FYI—It was Sen Mark Warner who was instrumental perpetuating the Steele Dossier as factual after Diane Feinstein was approached, I think by McCain, to spread it around to get Trump and Feinstein thought it was too hot to touch but Warner was fine with it. Warner went on TV for years saying the Dossier was real, “Where there is smoke there is fire”. Lying sack of garbage. He’s saying this about Tulsi because he knows he is implicated and I, for one, can not wait for this arrogant termite to go down.
He is upset because he is part of the conspiracy and is going down with the rest of them.
Clapper, Brennan and Comey were too busy smearing Trump to do their actual jobs. I like the job Gabbard’s doing a lot better.
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