Some Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have discussed the idea of making a key vote on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to become intelligence chief public instead of voting behind closed doors.

Republicans are cautioning that Tulsi Gabbard’s path to confirmation to lead the U.S. intelligence apparatus is narrowing as she seemingly has trouble winning over key GOP senators. Gabbard, along with Robert F.

The confirmation battles over Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be a test of how much Trump has changed the Republican Party.

Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to be director of national intelligence appears to be in significant jeopardy, which is why Republicans are reportedly mulling breaking the Senate Intelligence Committee's own rules to get her over the finish line.

When President Donald Trump authorized the full release of federal archives on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. K Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he made good on a promise near and dear to academic historians and conspiracy theorists alike.

A Senate committee will consider Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after she spent weeks working to persuade lawmakers to vote for her.

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

If she can't get a favorable vote from the Intelligence Committee, senators could report her to the floor with a neutral or unfavorable recommendation.

Gabbard is set to face the Senate Intelligence Committee in open and closed sessions on Thursday. Typically, aside from certain public hearings, the panel deliberates and votes in private. That includes presidential nominations.

Kennedy has repeatedly questioned the efficacy and even safety of vaccines touted by most doctors as medical miracles responsible for saving tens of million lives globally.

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.