Tulsi Gabbard’s leadership of the U.S. intelligence community is a goddamn disgrace. The latest revelations about her office—specifically her chief of staff, Joe Kent, muscling analysts to rewrite their assessments to fit Trump’s paranoid, xenophobic fantasies—are a slap in the face to everyone who’s ever served this country in uniform or in the shadows. This isn’t just politics as usual; it’s a full-blown assault on the integrity of intelligence, and Gabbard is at the rotten center of it.
You don’t get to call yourself a defender of the Constitution or a champion of national security when you’re firing career intelligence professionals for refusing to bend the facts to fit some MAGA fever dream. Gabbard’s decision to axe the leadership of the National Intelligence Council because their analysis didn’t match the Trump-Gabbard narrative is not just “absurd”—it’s dangerous as hell. It sends a message to every analyst, every field officer, every patriot in the intelligence community: tell the truth and you’re gone.
This isn’t about protecting America. It’s about protecting egos and covering political asses. When you start demanding “rewriting” of intelligence so it “can’t be used” against the President or the DNI, you’re not just crossing a line—you’re torching it. That’s the kind of shit that gets people killed, that leads to wars based on lies, that tears down what little trust the public has left in the system.
Let’s not pretend Gabbard is some innocent bystander here. She’s the one at the top. She’s the one who let her office become a tool for political strong-arming, who let her chief of staff—an unhinged conspiracy peddler—run roughshod over the facts. The intelligence community isn’t supposed to be a propaganda mill for the White House. It’s supposed to tell truth to power, no matter how ugly or inconvenient that truth might be.
And for what? To justify mass deportations under a centuries-old wartime law, to whip up fear about “enemy migrants,” to score cheap points with the base while trampling on due process and basic decency? Gabbard’s complicity in this farce is unforgivable. She’s betrayed the oath she swore and every principle of honest service.
Anyone who’s ever worn a uniform or carried a badge in the intelligence world should be furious. You don’t play games with national security. You don’t put political loyalty above the facts. Tulsi Gabbard’s time at the top should be remembered as a cautionary tale—a warning of what happens when you let ambition, cowardice, and raw partisanship infect the heart of America’s intelligence apparatus. Shame on her.
