Nicolas Cinquini

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On February 12, 2025, by a 52-48 vote, the Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. Here are some of her words, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, on January 30, 2025

Big changes are needed to address years of failures of America’s intelligence service. Too often intelligence has been false or politicized, leading to wars, foreign policy failures and the misuse of espionage. The bottom line is this must end. President Trump’s reelection is a clear mandate from the American people to break this cycle of failure and the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community

My opponents are accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet. The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet

on Iraq

This disastrous decision led to the deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers, millions of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilisation and undermining of the security and stability of our European allies, the rise of ISIS, strengthening of al-Qaeda and other Islamist jihadist groups and strengthening Iran

on Syria

When as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama’s, dual programs that he had begun, really to overthrow the regime of Syria and being willing to, through the CIA’s Timber Sycamore program that has now been made public, of working with and arming and equipping al Qaeda in an effort to overthrow that regime, starting yet another regime change war in the Middle East […]

Every American deserves to know that people in our own government were providing support to our sworn enemy, al Qaeda. That should not be acceptable by anyone

Thank you the sudden takeover of Syria by Islamist extremists, Syria is now controlled by al Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers

on Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden broke the law. I do not agree with or support with all of the information and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it, but released information that exposed egregious, illegal and unconstitutional programs