Protect America: Block Tulsi Gabbard As Director of National Intelligence

Appointment of former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence represents a direct threat to our country’s national security. Gabbard has been described as an asset of Russia’s Putin, but she is more accurately described as an asset of India’s Modi.

Appointment of Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to the promise of “America First.”

Since the beginning of her political career in US Congress in 2011, Gabbard was dependent on support from and association with American affiliates of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The RSS is a Hindu nationalist paramilitary in India which seeks the extermination of Indian Christians and Muslims in order to establish a Hindu nation. Modi, the Prime Minister of India since 2014, is a lifelong member of the RSS.

Through the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political wing of the RSS, Modi has ruled India for over 10 years. The RSS-BJP are implicated in multiple massacres of Indian religious minorities. In 2002, for instance, Modi was implicated in the slaughter of 2000 Indian Muslims in Gujarat and subsequently banned from the US for it from 2005-2014.

Throughout her years in US Congress, Tulsi Gabbard:

• Twice worn the scarf of the BJP, a foreign political party, at events where attendees donated to her campaign.
• Openly defended the xenophobic religious nationalist ideology of Hindu nationalism as “expressing pride in one’s religion.”
• Defended Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat Massacre of thousands of Muslims as one that was “instigated.”
• Became the first US politician to openly embrace Modi’s previously prohibited visit to the US by garlanding him.
• Accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from leaders in the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), the international wing of the RSS, the Overseas Friends of the BJP (which is now a registered Foreign Agent in the US), and other affiliated organizations. These interlinked groups are collectively known as parts of the “Sangh Parivar” or “Family of Hindu Nationalist Organizations.”
• Appeared as a keynote speaker at nearly a dozen Sangh Parivar events around the US, including at least two RSS-linked events in India.
• Pursued policy actions in US Congress to torpedo attempts, early before and after Modi’s election, to criticize the Hindu nationalist movement for its pogroms of religious minorities.
• Received Ram Madhav, an RSS-BJP spokesperson, at her wedding as a representative of Modi.
• And much, much more.

For the much, much more, please visit the following links:

• The American Sangh’s Affair With Tulsi Gabbard
• Tulsi Gabbard Is a Rising Progressive Star, Despite Her Support For Hindu Nationalists
• US Election: Why Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Hindutva’ Link Deserves Scrutiny
• From US Congress to Intelligence boss — a tale of two Tulsis
• The Hindutva Lobby

India has undergone a radical transformation under Modi.

India has become an autocratic state in which religious minorities are repeatedly threatened with genocide by allies of the ruling party, lynchings are common, religious conversion is banned, churches and mosques are routinely attacked by mobs, peaceful political dissidents are jailed en masse for years on end, and existence within the country requires allegiance to the religion of the majority.

India has also begun interfering in the lives and liberties of North American citizens. Since 2023, India has assassinated a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil and attempted to assassinate a US citizen on US soil. Other citizens in North America have faced related transnational repression due to their criticism of Modi and his Hindu nationalist movement, especially its interference in North American sociopolitics.

This transnational repression is an obscene violation of US sovereignty. Any US politician who fails to denounce it is against putting America first. Tulsi Gabbard refuses to speak out against it.

Tulsi Gabbard, as a toady of Modi whose political career was launched by his sympathizers in the US, cannot be trusted as the Director of National Intelligence. Therefore, we the undersigned, demand that her appointment be blocked for the sake of national security.