(The Hill) — Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said in a Sunday interview that he will support President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii). In the interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press ...

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) says he’ll vote yes for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after she changed her stance on Section 702, an intelligence surveillance tool she previously voted against while in Congress.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) confirmed on Sunday that he will vote to confirm former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as the Trump administration’s director of national intelligence, stressing that her views on a section in the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act remain unchanged.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, announced her support for a government surveillance authority she was critical of in Congress.

The former lawmaker offered an olive branch to GOP national security hawks who hold the keys to her confirmation as Trump's director of national intelligence.

In private meetings, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. spy chief has mixed up details about a key surveillance law.

Trump tapped Gabbard to serve as the Director of National Intelligence in his second term. In a new report from the Wall Street Journal, however, several insiders claimed Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard went back on her previous position against section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ahead of her confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate.

Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) says he’ll vote yes for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after she changed her stance on Section 702, an intelligence surveillance tool she previously voted against while in Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for secretary of defense on November 14, 2024. This presidential appointment requires Senate confirmation. The Senate Intelligence Committee typically holds the ...

Some Senate Republicans have asked about a powerful spy authority in the confirmation process for picks for key national security roles.