参议院以52比48确认 Tulsi Gabbard 出任国家情报总监
2025年2月12日，美国参议院在位于华盛顿特区的国会山以52票赞成、48票反对，确认 Tulsi Gabbard 出任国家情报总监。52张赞成票全部来自共和党参议员；48张反对票中，47张来自民主党参议员，1张来自共和党参议员 Mitch McConnell，他是唯一投反对票的共和党人。这项提名在参议院的编号为 PN11-16。
Gabbard 现为美国陆军预备役中校，曾代表夏威夷州担任四届联邦众议员，2020年曾竞选总统。她将领导国家情报总监办公室，统筹协调包括中央情报局、国家安全局在内的18个情报机构。国家情报总监办公室在2月12日的新闻稿中称，Gabbard 是第八位经参议院确认的国家情报总监，也是首位有战斗服役经历的女性总监。
这项提名此前在参议院情报委员会过关：2月4日，委员会以9比8的票数同意将提名送交参议院全院表决，委员会主席 Tom Cotton 随后发表声明表示欢迎。2月10日，参议院以52比46通过结束辩论的程序性表决，为最终确认表决清除了障碍。
在1月30日的确认听证会上，来自两党的参议员就多个问题向 Gabbard 提问，包括她过去对国家安全局承包商雇员 Edward Snowden 的表态、她对《外国情报监视法》第702条监视授权的立场变化——她在众议员任内曾提出废除该条款的法案——以及她2017年赴叙利亚与时任叙利亚总统 Bashar al-Assad 会面并对叙方使用化学武器的美方评估表示质疑等往事。听证会上，Gabbard 表示「Edward Snowden 触犯了法律」，并称若获确认，她的职责是守护国家机密。
确认表决通过数小时后，Gabbard 于2月12日下午在白宫椭圆形办公室宣誓就职，司法部长 Pam Bondi 主持监誓，特朗普在场。Gabbard 在就职后发表声明称，她深感荣幸并感谢特朗普给予她为国家服务的机会，并表示准确、无偏见、及时的情报对总统、国会与军方的决策至关重要。
（来源：美国参议院）
Senate Confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, 52-48
The U.S. Senate, meeting at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence on February 12, 2025, by a vote of 52 to 48. All 52 votes in favor came from Republican senators. Of the 48 votes against, 47 came from Democratic senators and one from Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, the only Republican to vote no. The nomination was numbered PN11-16 in the Senate.
Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, previously served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii and ran for president in 2020. She will lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees and coordinates the 18 agencies of the intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. In a February 12, 2025, news release, the office said Gabbard is the eighth Senate-confirmed Director of National Intelligence and the first female combat veteran to hold the post.
The nomination had cleared the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 4, when the committee voted 9 to 8 to report it favorably to the full Senate, a step welcomed in a statement by the committee's chairman, Tom Cotton. On February 10, the Senate voted 52 to 46 to end debate, clearing the way for the final confirmation vote.
At her January 30 confirmation hearing, senators of both parties questioned Gabbard about her past statements on National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden; about her changed position on the Section 702 surveillance authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — as a House member she had introduced legislation to repeal it; and about her 2017 trip to Syria, where she met then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and expressed skepticism about U.S. assessments that his government had used chemical weapons. At the hearing, Gabbard said "Edward Snowden broke the law" and that, if confirmed, her responsibility would be to protect the nation's secrets.
Hours after the confirmation vote, Gabbard was sworn in on the afternoon of February 12 in the Oval Office of the White House, with Attorney General Pam Bondi administering the oath and President Donald Trump in attendance. In a statement after taking office, Gabbard said she was honored and grateful to Trump for the opportunity to serve, and that accurate, unbiased, and timely intelligence is critical to the decisions of the president, Congress, and the military.
(Source: U.S. Senate)
来源：美国参议院
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图片来源：图：2025年2月12日，Tulsi Gabbard 在位于华盛顿特区的白宫宣誓就任国家情报总监当日。（白宫官方照片，Molly Riley 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons） / Photo: Tulsi Gabbard at the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 2025, the day she was sworn in as Director of National Intelligence. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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