Tulsi Gabbard Vindicated
The Jolani regime massacres religious minorities in Syria. I explore our Spy Chief's history and Joe Biden promoting a "Russian puppet" on the Fourth of July in 2021.
Unfortunately, the Jolani regime has vindicated DNI Gabbard’s assessment of the US arming and training terrorists to overthrow Syria. Who could have predicted arming al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other extremists would result in the extermination of religious minorities and Christians?
The sad fact is the overthrowing of the Assad regime benefitted Israel, and too many of our politicians have no limit when it comes to sacrificing our troops, Christians, women, and even moderate Muslims if it benefits “Our Greatest Ally.”
US Arming Terrorists and the 2012 Benghazi Attack
On January 23, 2017, Rep. Gabbard introduced Stop Arming Terrorists Act that “prohibit the use of United States Government funds to provide assistance to Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to countries supporting those organizations, and for other purposes.” The Senate version didn’t have a single co-sponsor, and it was later incorporated into the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
I believe Ms. Gabbard introduced Stop Arming Terrorists in response to Operation Timber Sycamore-a CIA program arming terrorist rebels in Syria—that led to the murders of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and military contractors in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked to Jihadist Rebels in Syria | Business Insider | Oct 19, 2012
The official position is that the U.S. has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria.
But there's growing evidence that U.S. agents — particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens — were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels.
In March 2011 Stevens became the official U.S. liaison to the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan opposition, working directly with Abdelhakim Belhadj of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group — a group that has now disbanded, with some fighters reportedly participating in the attack that took Stevens' life…
That means that Ambassador Stevens had only one person—Belhadj—between him and the Benghazi man who brought heavy weapons to Syria.
The US Sends a “Russian Puppet” to Syria
If Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian puppet, then so is Joe Biden. In the mid-2000s, then-Senator John Kerry made two trips to Syria each time meeting with Assad over the objections of the Bush Administration.
Dennis Kucinich has been making these trips since at least 2006 and another in 2011, funded by the Arab American AACCESS-Ohio group. The media went into full smear campaign mode, but no one bothered to investigate who actually funds the Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services (AACCESS-Ohio) that paid for Dennis Kucinich and Tulsi Gabbard’s trip to Syria in 2017.
ACCESS-Ohio Funded by the Ford, Carnegie, and the Open Society Institutes
After the recent USAID revelations, we should all know by now that George Soros is just a front for American soft power.
An affiliate of ACCESS, the National Network of Arab-American Communities (NNAAC) also received considerable grant support. According to their director, Nadia Tonova, “those [foundations] are our lifeline, not only for elections, but other work, without them we would not be able to function.”14
Joe Biden Gave ACCESS $20 Mil in Grant Funding
Between 2021 and 2025, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) received over $20 million in grant funding from the Biden-Harris administration.
Did Dennis Kucinich and Tulsi Gabbard Visit Syria During Obama’s Term?
Just 4 days after Trump’s inauguration in 2017, Ms. Gabbard was already making the media rounds talking about her Syrian trip. Some articles make me question the actual timing of Tulsi Gabbard’s trip to Syria. I don’t have any hard evidence one way or another, but I do have questions.
A mysterious meeting with Syrian president is at the center of spy chief's nomination fight | AP News | January 29, 2025
She departed on her 2017 trip to Syria just before Trump took office the first time. It was arranged by two Arab-American brothers, Bassam and Elias Khawam. According to people who know the Khawams but did not want to speak publicly against fellow members of the tight-knit Arab American community, they are Lebanese Americans with a history of activism in Arab American political circles, particularly on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
A Legal Analysis of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s Trip to Syria | The Lawfare Institute | February 14, 2017
On the other hand, Rep. Gabbard appears to have obtained prior authorization from the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, and it’s plausible that the Administration quietly endorsed the trip: The Pentagon knew about it in advance, and yet there’s no public evidence of an objection. When asked for the Administration’s position on the matter, officials at both the State Department and the Defense Department declined to comment. What’s more, Rep. Gabbard’s views on Syria generally align with those of Trump, she met with the President shortly after his election, and she made the trip only weeks after that meeting. In these circumstances, it’s hardly straightforward that she acted “without authority of the United States.”
There’s about 3 months between the election and inauguration, so how many weeks after meeting Trump did Tulsi make the trip? There’s no way the Pentagon didn’t know a reservist Army officer was going to Syria to meet with Assad.
President Biden Promotes a “Russian Puppet”
The Biden administration not only didn’t court martial a “Russian asset,” nor pulled her TS/SCI clearance, but actually promoted Major Gabbard to Lieutenant Colonel on the Fourth of July in 2021. I guess former President Joe Biden is also a secret Russian asset.
The trailblazing political and Army career of Tulsi Gabbard | Yahoo! News | November 15, 2024
In June 2020, Gabbard also left the National Guard and transferred to the Army Reserve. She was assigned to a California-based unit in the United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on July 4, 2021. As a Civil Affairs officer, Gabbard deployed to the Horn of Africa in support of a Special Operations mission.
Was the Spy Chief already a Spy?
The media made it sound like Tulsi Gabbard had zero experience when she was nominated for DNI, which isn’t true at all.
LTC Gabbard is the current commander of 440th Civil Affairs Battalion that was commissioned into the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) in September of 2011. The 440th also provides support for Special Operations Command.
Remember, Tulsi was born in American Samoa and moved to Hawaii with her family in 1983, when she was two.
An article in The New Yorker mentions Tulsi’s ex-husband, Eduardo Tamayo, has an uncle in the Philippines named Toby Tamayo. Toby Tamayo is an employee of a group that helped run a school affiliated with Chris Butler, aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa, who leads the Science of Identity Foundation and worldwide Chaitanya Missions movement in Hawaii.
Is it possible Tulsi’s family were infiltrating these groups?
What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe? | The New Yorker | October 30, 2017
By the early seventies, his message had reached Hawaii, where Chris Butler was a young yoga teacher and surfer. Butler, the son of a prominent doctor and antiwar activist who had come from the mainland, was something of a prodigy: a self-styled guru who began attracting followers soon after he dropped out of college…
As the Hare Krishna movement fractured, Butler created his own group, now known as the Science of Identity Foundation, and amassed a tight-knit, low-profile network of followers, hundreds or perhaps thousands of them, stretching west from Hawaii into Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. Butler deemphasized age-old Indian texts and practices, presenting himself instead as a smart and curious guy who had figured out the answers to some very puzzling questions. In 1984, he published “Who Are You? Discovering Your Real Identity,” which used examples from science to argue that materialism was false, and that the self was real—and eternal.
What’s the saying, “Scratch a cult leader and a spy bleeds.”
The media owes our spy chief an apology for calling her an “Assad asset” or a “Russian puppet.” I also owe LTC Gabbard an apology, because I didn’t research if the accusations were true.
So, please accept my heartfelt apology from one female veteran to another.
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Additional Sources:
Meet Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate | Council on Foreign Relations | February 21, 2019
She has also sponsored a bill known as the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, which she introduced in 2017. It aims to “stop the U.S. government from using taxpayer dollars to directly or indirectly support groups who are allied with and supporting terrorist groups like ISIS and al Qaeda in their war to overthrow the Syrian government.” It didn’t come up for a vote before the 115th Congress ended back in January.
Gabbard has been specific about where she wouldn’t use military force. One such place is Syria, at least when al-Qaeda and the Islamic State aren’t involved. She opposed calls for the United States to unseat the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) | InfluenceWatch
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Ford Foundation was an early donor to ACCESS, followed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the George Soros-founded Open Society Institutes. 17
Inside Philanthropy has reported that ACCESS has gotten the biggest foundation money for Arab American nonprofits in recent years “from a who’s who of major progressive foundations” including the Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Mott Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations. Corporate funders of ACCESS include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and AT&T. 18