Tulsi Gabbard quits as US intelligence chief; Iran’s response draws attention
Tulsi Gabbard will step down as US intelligence chief on June 30, saying she wants to support her husband following his diagnosis with a rare bone cancer.
Tulsi Gabbard will step down as US intelligence chief on June 30, saying she wants to support her husband following his diagnosis with a rare bone cancer.
A fresh political row has erupted in the US after claims that sensitive JFK and MKUltra files were removed from Tulsi Gabbard’s office during declassification efforts.
The Trump administration has declassified files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, who was shot dead in Texas in 1963.
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday expressed the confidence that the Indo-US partnership and the friendship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump will grow in the coming years.
PM Modi presented the visiting US Intel chief with Ganga Jal from the Maha Kumbh, while briefing her about the significance of world’s largest-ever religious gathering.
The two Democratic presidential aspirants, both of whom have a huge support base among Indian-Americans across the country.
"I'm not making any predictions but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate," Clinton said, in an apparent reference to Gabbard.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address Indian-Americans at the mega event on September 22.
Ms Gabbard, who converted to Hinduism early in her life and has become the first-ever Hindu to be running for the presidency in the US, is highly popular among Indian-Americans.
Biden has emerged as the frontrunner among nearly 20 Democratic presidential aspirants, including Indian-American Senator Kamala Harris, first Hindu US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Senator Bernie Sanders.