The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence after Republicans who had initially questioned her experience and judgment fell in line behind her nomination. Gabbard was an unconventional pick to oversee and coordinate the country's 18 different intelligence agencies, given her past comments sympathetic to Russia, a meeting she held with now-deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad and her previous support for government leaker Edward Snowden. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/senate-confirms-gabbard-as-trumps-director-of-national-intelligence/507-6cf153e7-3305-4379-a2c3-96dda297fc70