MUST-SEE: Tulsi Gabbard makes BOMBSHELL CONFESSION at Senate hearing

So, the assessment of the intelligence. community is that Iran's nuclear. enrichment program was obliterated by. last summer's airstrikes. >> Yes. And the opening statement you submitted. to the committee last night also stated, quote, there has been no effort since. then. to try to rebuild their enrichment. capability, end quote, correct? That's. right. >> And that's the assessment of the. intelligence community. Yes. The White House stated on March 1st of. this year that this war was launched. and was, quote, a military campaign to. eliminate the imminent nuclear threat.

posed by the Iranian regime, end quote. That's a statement from the White House. Quote, the imminent nuclear threat posed. by the Iranian regime. Was it the assessment of the. intelligence community that there was an. imminent nuclear threat posed by the. Iranian regime? The intelligence community assessed that. Iran maintained the intention to rebuild. and to continue to grow their nuclear. enrichment capability. >> Was it the assessment of the. intelligence community that there was a, quote, imminent nuclear threat posed by.

the Iranian regime, yes or no? Senator, the only person who can determine. what is and is not an imminent threat is. the president. >> False. This is the worldwide This is the. worldwide threats hearing, where you. present to Congress national. intelligence, timely, objective, and. independent of political considerations. You've stated today that the. intelligence community's assessment is. that Iran's nuclear enrichment program. was obliterated, and that, quote, there. had been no efforts since then to try to. rebuild their enrichment capability.

Was it the intelligence community's. assessment that nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was a, quote, imminent nuclear. threat posed by the Iranian regime, yes. or no? It is not the intelligence. community's responsibility to determine. what is and is not an imminent threat. >> Okay. Here's Here's the problem. No, it is It is precisely It is. precisely your responsibility to. determine what constitutes a threat to. the United States. This is the worldwide. threats hearing.

where. as you noted in your opening testimony, quote, you represent the IC's assessment. of threats. You are here to represent. the IC's assessment of threats. That's a. quote from your own opening statement. And so my question is, as you're here to. present the IC's assessment of threats, was it the assessment of the. intelligence community that as the White. House claimed on March 1st, there was a.

quote imminent nuclear threat posed by. the Iranian regime. Yes or no? >> Once again, Senator, the intelligence. community has uh. provided the inputs that make up this. annual threat assessment. >> You won't answer the question. >> nature of the imminent threat that the. president has to make that determination. based on a collection and volume You're. here to be timely, you're here you're here to be timely, objective, and independent of political. considerations. >> Exactly what I'm doing.

No, you're evading a question because to. provide a candid response to the. committee would contradict a statement. from the White House. That was Senator. Jon Ossoff asking the apparently. impossible question of did Iran pose an. imminent threat to the United States to. Tulsi Gabbard who seems incapable of. giving any answer and instead suggests. the only person in the United States of. America in its government who's in a. position to give any answers on anything. is apparently the president. And look, Senator Ossoff did a perfect job at.

pointing out the fact that Tulsi Gabbard. is being evasive because she didn't want. to contradict Trump and the White House. Namely, that Iran posed an imminent. threat. Iran was a threat. Every country. realized what a threat Iran was. The. question is whether or not they wanted. to do something about it. So, why are. they saying this? Because, to be blunt, no one knows why the we're at war. and Donald Trump doesn't either, so he. needed a justification and what he. landed on was that there was no choice. because Iran posed an imminent threat to. us here at the United States. And so,

right on cue, his underlings started. echoing this sentiment. In response to. the resignation letter by Joe Kent. conceding that Iran didn't pose an. imminent threat, Caroline Leavitt came. out and wrote, "There are many false. claims in this letter, but let me. address one specifically, that Iran. posed no imminent threat to our nation. This is the same false claim that. Democrats and some in the liberal media. have been repeating over and over.". Which sure is interesting because just. days ago Caroline Leavitt herself. tweeted, quote, "To be clear, no such. threat from Iran to our homeland exists.

and it never did." In other words, Iran. poses no threat to our homeland and they. never did, but also Democrats in the. liberal media are lying when they say. that Iran poses no threat to our. homeland. Make sense for everyone? But here's. what's even more damning. In that same. hearing, Tulsi Gabbard negated her own. argument by conceding that Iran had made. no effort to rebuild their enrichment. capability since it was, quote, unquote, obliterated by the US in the summer. In. that opening statement as submitted to. the committee in advance of this hearing. stated that as a result of last summer's.

air strikes, quote, "Iran's nuclear enrichment. program was obliterated." And quote, correct? That's right. And is that in fact the assessment of. the intelligence community? Yes. So the. assessment of the intelligence community. is that Iran's nuclear enrichment. program was obliterated by last summer's. air strikes. Yes. And the opening statement you submitted. to the committee last night also stated, quote, "There has been no effort since. then. to try to rebuild their enrichment. capability." And quote, correct? That's.

right. And that's the assessment of the. intelligence community. Yes. The White House stated on March 1st of. this year that this war was launched. and was, quote, "a military campaign to. eliminate the imminent nuclear threat. posed by the Iranian regime." And quote. That's a statement from the White House. Quote, "The imminent nuclear threat. posed by the Iranian regime." So, if. Iran's nuclear enrichment had been. obliterated and they made no effort to. rebuild their enrichment capability,

then how did they suddenly pose an. imminent threat if we'd already gotten. the job done in June? The answer is that. they didn't. And of course, Tulsi. Gabbard knows that. But again, her job. here is not to tell the truth, it is to. protect her boss. And because Trump. vomited out some nonsense about Iran. posing a threat to the US, now all of. these clowns at his circus need to. parrot his new talking point and pretend. that it's gospel. And what you're left. with is the literal director of national. intelligence refusing to admit that she. is capable of answering any basic.

questions about national intelligence. The reality is that she, like everyone. else in this White House, is perfectly. content to abandon all of her previously. stated positions if it means that she. stays in the good graces of a despot. Remember, this was Tulsi Gabbard over. the years. Let's deal with the situation. where we are, where this president and. his chicken hawk cabinet have led us to. the brink of war with Iran. I served in. the war in Iraq at the height of the war. in 2005, a war that took over 4,000 of.

my brothers and sisters in uniforms'. lives. The American people need to understand. that this war with Iran would be far. more devastating, far more costly than. anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It. would take many more lives, it would. exacerbate the refugee crisis, and it. wouldn't be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war war. This is why it's so important that every. one of us, every single American stand. up and say, "No war with Iran." We've.

got to be clear-eyed about the situation. that we are in. That inching closer, actually more than inching, speeding. towards an all-out war with Iran would. make the wars that we've seen in Iraq. and in Afghanistan look like a picnic. It will be far more costly in lives, American lives, and American taxpayer. dollars, and all towards accomplishing. what goal? What objective? I think. that's really at the crux of this. decision that President Trump made.

>> That's exactly. what Trump did. He conducted and. committed an act of war without. congressional authority, seriously. escalating the situation with Iran. And. so now we're at a point of. it's not a matter of well, are we going. to have a war with Iran? We are in a war. with Iran right now. So the real issue. is are we going to allow this war to. continue to escalate? And if so, for how.

long? And to achieve what objective? I. think you get the point. And yet now, she's basically turned into Colin Powell. 2.0. Tulsi is not in her role despite. her shamelessness, she is there because. of it. It's expressly because she stands. for nothing and will shapeshift to fill. whatever role is required of her that. she has her job. Donald Trump wanted a. cabinet full of morally bankrupt, malleable individuals, and Tulsi Gabbard. is a testament to the fact that that is. exactly what he got.

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