At last week’s Intelligence Committee hearing, I pressed the administration’s top intelligence officials on a basic question I hear from people across our district: are they going to stand by the facts, or simply tell the President what he wants to hear?
When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said only the President can decide what counts as an “imminent threat,” I made the stakes clear. If intelligence can be ignored or rewritten to fit a political narrative, then what is the role of our intelligence agencies?
That’s not how national security is supposed to work. Intelligence officials have a duty to provide clear, honest assessments, especially when lives are on the line.
Because when the truth gets bent, it’s not politicians who pay the price. It’s the sons and daughters of working families who serve in uniform.
And I will keep fighting to make sure decisions about war and national security are grounded in facts, not politics.
