Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“In an autocracy, truth and falsehood aren’t resolved by fact-finding institutions. They’re dictated by the leader. This is what’s happening now in the United States. Donald Trump says he had to bomb Iran because it posed an imminent threat to the United States. And Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, says only Trump himself can judge whether that claim is true. In the years before America turned authoritarian, Gabbard didn’t talk this way. She insisted on testing the government’s claims against evidence.” (03/19/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-dni-director-of-national-ignorance