The New York Times reports:
Starting last summer, former Representative Tulsi Gabbard publicly berated the Biden administration, claiming that she was placed on what she called “a domestic terror watch list” as punishment for critical comments she had made about Vice President Kamala Harris. The reality was more complicated. The additional security measures were triggered by an event she attended at the Vatican that was organized by a European businessman who appeared on an F.B.I. watch list.
While in Syria in 2017, Ms. Gabbard, who at the time was representing Hawaii in the House as a Democrat, met with President Bashar al-Assad, an authoritarian leader backed by Russia, Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah until December, when rebel groups seized the Syrian capital.
Shortly after her visit, U.S. spy agencies intercepted a phone call between two Hezbollah members concerning Ms. Gabbard, according to current and former officials briefed on the intelligence. The intercept was of a Hezbollah member reporting that Ms. Gabbard had met with a person whom he identified euphemistically, using a word in Arabic that can be translated as “the boss” or “the big guy.”
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JUST NOW: Shortly after Tulsi’s 2017 Assad tryst, the US intercepted a call between two Hezbollah members discussing her visit to Syria.
The Hezbollah members say Tulsi met “the big guy,” which some US intel officials assume is a senior Hezbollah official.
THERE’S MORE — pic.twitter.com/JR3J2who6r
— Kareem Rifai
(@KareemRifai) January 28, 2025
Remember when Tulsi went on a public rampage over temporarily being placed on the TSA Quiet Skies list?
It was because she went on a trip to the Vatican in 2024 organized by a businessman on a watch list maintained by the FBI Terrorist Screening Center. pic.twitter.com/zueuUT3SEK
— Kareem Rifai
(@KareemRifai) January 28, 2025
The businessman who organized Tulsi’s meeting in the Vatican is an investor in… you guessed it… Russia!
He was once pictured with Igor Girkin, a former Russian intelligence officer who helped Moscow annex Crimea. pic.twitter.com/7r9fic7J0n
— Kareem Rifai
(@KareemRifai) January 28, 2025
This is an absolutely insane article with a lot of breaking information — most of the recent stories on Tulsi have been connecting already well-known dots.
Definition of a walking national security threat.https://t.co/3ZVLgiWgdy
— Kareem Rifai
(@KareemRifai) January 28, 2025
EXCLUSIVE | The Daily Beast has obtained an image of Tulsi Gabbard placing flowers at an altar dedicated to her “guru”—a man whose group she denies ever being part of.https://t.co/SjjRkQOWAf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 27, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard is what is known as a useful idiot.
She was raised in, and remains part of, a sick cult led by a Muslim hating, homophobic washed up surfer whom she & her cultists worship so much they brag about eating his toenails
Snagging her was easy for Putin.
— Denise Wheeler
(@denisedwheeler) December 8, 2024