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The Guardian - US
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Cate Brown in Washington

The turbulent 15 months of Trump’s unlikely US intelligence director

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Tulsi Gabbard at a Senate intelligence committee hearing in Washington DC on 18 March. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Tulsi Gabbard’s tumultuous 15-month tenure as the country’s top intelligence official ended on Friday, when she submitted her resignation as director of national intelligence.

Gabbard was an unconventional choice for the role: the former Democrat lacked an intelligence background and her foreign policy views at times diverged from Donald Trump’s, particularly on questions of overseas military intervention. And yet she also took unusual measures to ingratiate herself to the president by vowing to root out politicization across US spy agencies and embracing his agenda of election denial.

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