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ARTICLE VIEW:
Sen. Mark Warner to call out Tulsi Gabbard in floor speech for ‘going
to war’ with intelligence community
By Jim Sciutto, Jeremy Herb, CNN
Updated:
6:00 AM EDT, Thu September 18, 2025
Source: CNN
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia is escalating his criticism of Director of
National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, accusing her and the Trump
administration of “going to war” with intelligence professionals
and sacrificing the integrity of US intelligence “on the altar of
partisan convenience.”
Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, plans to
deliver a Senate speech Thursday warning of the dangers of the steps
Gabbard has taken atop the US intelligence apparatus, according to
excerpts of his remarks obtained by CNN.
“For months now, we’ve watched President Trump’s administration,
led in this arena by his hand-picked Director of National Intelligence,
Ms. Gabbard, systematically undermine the men and women whose only
mission is to keep this country safe,” Warner will say, according to
the remarks. “If we let politics dictate what intelligence is
acceptable, we are effectively flying blind.”
This is not the first time Warner has criticized Gabbard, who was
tapped by President Donald Trump to lead an intelligence community he
openly distrusts and criticizes.
“Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to our national security and should be
fired,” Warner last month, after Gabbard declassified documents
related to the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian
interference in the 2016 election, which Warner said was released for
“clearly political purposes, without proper coordination with the
agencies responsible for protecting sources and methods.”
Gabbard responded to Warner’s criticism last month by saying that he
“continues to be a reliable soldier” defending the intelligence
community because she is working to “root out those deep state bad
actors in the intelligence community.”
CNN has reached out to the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence for comment on Warner’s planned remarks.
In his speech, Warner intends to point to a litany of actions Gabbard
and other Trump administration officials have taken, including the
declassifying of documents that the assessment on Russian election
interference was a hoax.
Democrats have accused Gabbard and Trump of using the Russia
investigation documents to try to distract from the furor surrounding
the Jeffrey Epstein files — and to punish his domestic political
enemies.
Warner accused Gabbard of of 37 officials last month as a
“transparently political act of vengeance.” The move, he said,
amounted to “sweeping aside decades of experience with the stroke of
a pen, and, in at least one case, exposing an official working under
cover.”
The Virginia Democrat cited the firing of numerous intelligence
officials, including the chairman and deputy chairman of the National
Intelligence Council and the general leading the Defense Intelligence
Agency, who were pushed out after producing assessments on Venezuela
and Iran that angered the president.
Warner also derided the role , the controversial far-right activist,
has played in successfully lobbying for intelligence officials to be
dismissed.
“Time and again, we have seen senior officials pushed out of their
posts because Ms. Loomer decided they were not sufficiently loyal to
the president,” Warner plans to say. “These are critical posts in
one of our most important intelligence organizations, vacated not
because of misconduct or failure, but because of the whims of a
political provocateur whose public record is filled with hate and
conspiracies.”
Loomer’s criticism also led to of an oversight visit Warner had
planned to speak to officials at the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency in Virginia.
Loomer earlier this month that the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency chief should be fired, declaring that the “fireside love fest
with anti-Trump Democrat Senator @MarkWarner Mark Warner has been
CANCELED!”
“What may be most astonishing is who seems to be calling the shots
— not seasoned national security leaders, not career intelligence
professionals, but conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer,” Warner plans to
say, according to the excerpts.
“The safeguards we put in place, the oversight this body provides,
only work if intelligence officers know that they can tell the truth
without losing their jobs,” Warner will say. “If analysts believe
their careers will be destroyed for offering inconvenient assessments,
then we will only get the intelligence the White House wants.”
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