EXCLUSIVE: Dozens of top former intelligence officials are urging members of the Senate to confirm President Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, saying she will “begin undoing the gross politicization that has come to characterize intelligence bureaucracies,

Ms. Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was briefly subject to special scrutiny on airline flights last year, but not, officials say, for the partisan reasons she has alleged.

Current and former European and U.S. officials have raised concerns about some of President Donald Trump’s picks for top intelligence posts.

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Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence—the latest controversial Trump cabinet pick to face Senate scrutiny as some Republicans have expressed unease about Gabbard’s controversial worldviews.

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President Trump’s team is preparing for what will surely be a bruising week for three of the president’s most controversial nominees — Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kash Patel — all of whom will sit for their confirmation hearings in the coming days. All three face serious and unique challenges to winning their posts.

President Trump's nominees for top posts in his administration are gearing up for their Senate confirmation hearings, which kicked off earlier this month.

Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence disregarded U.S. assessments of chemical weapons attacks and instead looked to contested academic research.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

Ms. Gabbard grew up in a secretive offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement and has made a dizzying journey from conservative to liberal darling to Trump ally.