Gabbard Dodges Questions on Whether Iran Was ‘Imminent Threat’

Spy chief Tulsi Gabbard dodged questions about the severity of the threat posed by Iran in Senate testimony on Wednesday, with the long-time skeptic of foreign interventions careful not to contradict either her own past beliefs or the Trump administration’s stance on the conflict.

Gabbard, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the US government’s 18 spy agencies as director of national intelligence, declined several times in a Senate hearing to say whether she thought Iran represented an “imminent nuclear threat” to the US, as the White House has claimed.

She was also asked why she ...