Trump’s DNI pick and I were both in Damascus in the winter of 2017 to meet with the dictator of Syria. We came away with very different takes. By Michael Isikoff, Nov 21, 2024
https://www.spytalk.co/p/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-and
All of this was nothing new for Gabbard. Two years before her meeting with Assad, in 2015, Mouaz Moustafa, a Washington based anti-regime activist who serves as executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Forces, took Gabbard and several other House members on a congressional trip to the Syrian-Turkish border. There, they met with displaced civilians who related how they were driven from their homes by relentless Syrian and Russian bombings. Much to Moustafa’s astonishment, Gabbard was openly skeptical. “How do you know it was Assad or the Russians who did the bombings?” she asked them. “How do you know it wasn’t ISIS?”
Moustafa could barely stop himself from blurting out the blindingly obvious: ISIS doesn’t have an Air Force! He came away clear-eyed about Gabbard’s world view. “She’s like the perfect product of RT propaganda,” he said.
