Former national security adviser John Bolton suggested in an interview with CNN that the Assad regime has a file on Tulsi Gabbard.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Gabbard to serve as Director of National Intelligence in the next administration. Gabbard’s anti-interventionist foreign policy views have made her nomination mired in controversy.
Back in 2017, Gabbard met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the country’s deadly civil war and later insisted that she was not an enemy of the United States. Recently, anti-Assad rebels have occupied vast swaths of land across the country, and Assad’s regime appears to be on the brink of collapse.
Bolton claimed in an interview with CNN that the Assad regime may have files “on numerous Americans.”
I don’t think she has any qualifications to be DNI, and I think her position is beyond the outermost fringes of American politics.
When she visited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he was effectively an ally of Russia and Iran. And Syria is not a direct threat to the United States, so what she said about the legitimacy of going to Syria is completely false. Syrians’ collaboration with Iran and Hezbollah poses a direct threat to Americans throughout the region. They certainly pose a direct threat to America’s main allies, Israel and Jordan.
And if the rebels succeed in capturing Damascus, it will be very interesting to see what files are discovered within the Syrian government and what they show about many Americans. Probably.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
