Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world.

As our politics gets stranger, I'm here on the sidelines cheering for some of the oddballs

that could soon hold very important cabinet posts like

RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, RFK obviously made it out of committee. Tulsi expected to do the same

after she gathered the support of a very skeptical Senator Young from Indiana. Susan Collins already said that she was going to vote to confirm Tulsi for Director of National Intelligence.

And I think this is a great thing. Tulsi Gabbard is one of the few people who has been very vocal about her fear of the growing surveillance state in this country, having been subjected to it during the Biden administration when she was scrutinized and, you know, also subjected to extra screening at airports. Remember, Hillary Clinton once called her a Russian

asset with absolutely no proof because Tulsi has a different way of looking at the world

based on her time and service as a combat veteran and also as a congresswoman and she was one of the few

people who has emerged from the state of Hawaii and their politics looking at things from an

entirely different view which is why I think that she would be a remarkable person to be

in this role because one of the reasons

Susan Collins will vote to confirm her is because she wants to limit the scope of the DNI's office.

And Susan Collins says, yes, this is what it was meant to be.

It was meant to be much smaller and less intrusive.

And I think that's how most of our government

agencies should be working. And if we continue on this doge swing where we are, you know,

potentially getting rid of entire governmental departments, if we're not getting rid of things,

then we should certainly be shrinking the footprint. So these agencies

have less power to abuse their power by spying on innocent American citizens. So how did we

learn about all of that? Well, thanks to Edward Snowden. Now, Tulsi has come under a lot of fire in the Senate Intel Committee because in the past, she has voiced her support for pardoning Snowden and for the way that he revealed to the world what the spy apparatus, particularly the all too powerful NSA, was doing to innocent Americans and

going around what should have been a legal warrant seeking process to peer into the lives

of people who had really done nothing wrong and violating their basic constitutional rights.

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