In a tweet following reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, made a multimillion-dollar purchase in a computer chip maker as his wife was angling for a vote on legislation that would provide massive federal subsidies to American chip manufacturers as a way to move away from Chinese-made chips also drew Gabbard’s ire recently.
“Shameless. Business as usual. Democracy? This is the standard by which the Washington elite of both parties consider Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, a democracy,” she wrote in a tweet containing a link to a Washington Times article reporting on the stock purchase.
Shameless. Business as usual. Democracy? This is the standard by which the Washington elite of both parties consider Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world, a democracy.https://t.co/MopLUhN2Cb
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 17, 2022
“You look throughout history, just about every single dictator who does whatever they feel they need to do, they feel like their cause is just, and so when we have people in positions of power — yes, in government, but in other sectors of our society as well, who feel like they need to do all they can to save the country, to save the people, and yet they are defying our Constitution and undermining our democracy and ruining our country in the process,” Gabbard told Watters. “This is what we need to protect ourselves and our country and our future from.”
Fox News went on to report that both Brennan and Clapper were asked during congressional testimony, under oath, about mass surveillance programs being used against American citizens, which they both denied.
“Three months later, former NSA intelligence consultant Edward Snowden released classified documents proving otherwise — and the campaign for Clapper and Brennan to clarify their statements began,” the network’s report noted further.
Fox noted further:
In a letter to the Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein, Clapper admitted to giving a “clearly erroneous” response that he was forced to “openly correct” because he “simply didn’t think” of the mass collection program.
During a speech at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, D.C. the following year, Brennan blamed the media for “mischaracterizations” of his statements.