On the menu today: For decades, we’ve seen nominees in confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate distance themselves from past controversial statements. But yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard, the nominee to be the next U.S. director of national intelligence, took the practice to new heights before the Senate Intelligence Committee, declaring she no longer held emphatically stated positions she had held, in some cases, just half a year ago. As the editors of NR declare today, “Her sudden shift is as stark as a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union suddenly endorsing Jägermeister shots during lunch breaks.”
Tulsi Gabbard Can’t Make Up Her Mind
You may have noticed that the Tulsi Gabbard who sat before the committee answering questions on Thursday didn’t sound like the Gabbard we’ve been watching all these years.
The Killing of Iran’s Qasem Soleimani
Then-representative Tulsi Gabbard, discussing the U.S. killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, on January 3, 2020 ...
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