David Sacks on Tulsi Gabbard's DNI Appointment and the Deep State's Endless War Agenda

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David Sacks on Tulsi Gabbard's DNI Appointment and the Deep State's Endless War Agenda

David Sacks joins Charlie Kirk to discuss why Tulsi Gabbard's appointment as Director of National Intelligence represents a critical safeguard against unnecessary foreign interventions. Sacks argues that avoiding another Forever War is essential to preserving the MAGA movement and preventing the Deep State from derailing domestic priorities. He dismantles the "Russian asset" smear against Gabbard, tracing it back to Hillary Clinton and comparing it to the discredited Russiagate hoax, while exposing how policy disagreements are being reframed as treason by establishment media outlets like The Atlantic.

November 15, 2024

The Critical Importance of Tulsi Gabbard's DNI Appointment

Charlie Kirk and David Sacks from the All-In podcast discuss the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, with Sacks calling it "extremely important for the country and extremely important for our movement." The conversation follows a dinner where the two worked together on what Sacks describes as fulfilling the mandate to keep "warmongers and neoconservatives" where they belong—in the losing campaign of Kamala Harris.

Sacks identifies the single greatest risk to the MAGA movement over the next four years: "If I had to identify one risk to the MAGA movement over the next four years it would be that somehow the Deep State or the swamp or the Washington blob maneuvers President Trump into another Forever War, a war that we don't need. And that war would not only be very damaging to the country but it would fracture our base and it could destroy the MAGA movement and derail domestic priorities."

Bad Intelligence and the Iraq War Precedent

Sacks emphasizes the danger of faulty intelligence, pointing to the Iraq War as a cautionary tale. He reminds viewers that "it was bad intelligence that got us into the Iraq war in the first place. Remember that it was the CIA director George Tenet who told President George W. Bush that it was a slam dunk case that Saddam Hussein had WMD programs and it was on that basis that the United States got into its most pointless and destructive Forever War."

According to Sacks, ensuring accurate intelligence for the President is paramount, and Gabbard is uniquely qualified for this role. "I can't think of a better person to be in charge of that than Tulsi because she has worn the uniform, she's a soldier, she knows what's involved. At the same time she's had a skepticism towards these unnecessary foreign interventions and so she has the right balance. I think she can make sure the intel is correct and hopefully that will avoid this horrible type of risk that I'm talking about."

The Russian Asset Smear: National Security's Version of Racist

Kirk raises the issue of Gabbard being smeared as a "Russian asset," calling it "demonstrably false slur." He draws a comparison: "It is the same as calling somebody a racist or a bigot. It's the National Security equivalent of calling somebody a racist. In politics they'll say you are a racist if you try to get into the National Security space, you're a Russian asset."

Sacks traces the origin of this smear directly back to Hillary Clinton: "It comes from the exact same source that this smear came from about President Trump. Remember they said that he was an agent of Vladimir Putin for years. I mean this was the whole Russiagate hoax. Where did the Russiagate hoax come from? It came from the Hillary Clinton campaign who started the smear that Tulsi was a Russian agent. Hillary Clinton just asserted it on cable news one day without any evidence and since then it's just been repeated again without any evidence whatsoever."

Sacks argues this accusation is even worse than being called racist: "I think it's even worse than calling somebody racist, as horrible as that is, because as bad as it is to engage in racism that's not actually a crime, whereas being a traitor to your country is actually a crime. It's a potential death penalty offense. So this is possibly the worst type of smear that they could ever make towards somebody, especially somebody who proudly wears the uniform of the USA."

The Public Has Seen Through the Slander

Despite the severity of these accusations, Sacks believes the American people have caught on: "I think the good news is that the people of the United States have now seen through this type of slander. Obviously they saw through it with respect to President Trump and I think President Trump's election shows that the mainstream media, or I should say the Legacy Media, no longer has any credibility when it makes these types of assertions. And in a sense President Trump has short circuited their slander machine."

Policy Disagreement Redefined as Treason

Kirk plays a clip of Tom Nichols from The Atlantic discussing "insider threat training," in which Nichols suggests that people "deeply critical of the United States and its foreign policy" who have "Affinity and meetings with foreign Nationals" raise "alarm bells." Kirk is stunned: "Hold on, hold on. If you're critical of America, red flag? Did he say that if you're critical of our foreign policy decisions... if you have a difference of opinion on whether or not we send money to Ukraine and we invade Iraq you're a national security threat?"

Sacks responds: "This is what they want to redefine treason as—policy disagreements. If you don't agree with their agenda somehow that's treason. No, I mean that's engaging in a reasonable policy debate which we absolutely need to have especially with regard to Foreign Wars."

The Atlantic Magazine's Endless War Agenda

Sacks identifies what he believes is the real issue: "Look, what these people are so upset about—Tulsi does not represent a threat to the United States. I think she's a great asset for the United States. What she represents a threat to is the Atlantic Magazine's agenda, which is non-stop war. It's endless and Forever War. This is what the Atlantic magazine stands for."

He continues his criticism of The Atlantic and its Editor-in-Chief: "They have made these same types of accusations towards President Trump. They bought into the whole Russiagate hook, line and sinker. They're the ones who spread it or were some of the people who spread it. In fact I think the Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was one of the main promoters of the whole Russiagate hoax. They've never come to grips with their complicity in that hoax. They've never acknowledged that they were wrong. They just move on to the next set of accusations and these are the last people who should be believed about this sort of thing. They have no credibility left."

Kirk concludes by noting that it's not just a credibility issue—these outlets represent a genuine threat to the country with their rhetoric and agenda.

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