by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
Donald Trump’s appointment of Tulsi Gabbard (a former U.S. Representative, whose focus had been to end the control over the U.S. Government by America’s armaments manufacturers) as his Director of National Intelligence, is being treated by America’s main media as being traitorous, because she has pointed out many of the war-promoting lies in the news media about heads-of-state that the U.S. Government has been and is trying to replace, such as Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and Vladimir Putin in Russia.
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For example, the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) “Newshour” evening ‘news’ program on November 14th had a segment, “Why Trump’s nomination of Gabbard for national intelligence director is controversial”, which presented her as supporting dictators and as a conspiracy-theorist who is too loyal to Trump and who is suspiciously supportive of America’s enemies (that is, of the heads-of-state in countries whose Governments the U.S. Government spends billions in propaganda and otherwise, in order to get overthrown). Here is part of that (alleged) “news” report (which is actually instead purely an undocumented opinion-piece or ‘news’-commentary to get Americans to oppose this nomination and thus make easier for a Senator to vote against her):
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John Bolton said she should not
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even sit for a senate
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confirmation hearing until the
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FBI investigates her because he
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said she presents a national
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security threat.
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Is that a concern you share?
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Michael [Leiter, former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, part of the U.S. Government]: I am very concerned
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with anyone in any position who
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is not thinking very critically
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and questioning what enemies of
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the United States like Vladimir
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Putin and Bashar al-Assad say to
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them.
On November 15th, the rabidly neoconservative Democratic Party organ, The Daily Beast, headlined “Dem Rep. Says Tulsi Gabbard Is ‘Likely a Russian Asset’”, which is also what the Democratic Party’s U.S. Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, called her in 2016 when Gabbard endorsed Bernie Sanders for that nomination instead of Clinton. The article opened:
