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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Tulsi Gabbard faces her Senate confirmation hearing, but doesn't seem to have put to rest

questions about her nomination to be the next director of national intelligence.

Plus, unexpected, uneventful testimony by FBI director-designate Cash Patel, as even lower-profile

cabinet appointees sail through the Senate with uncontroversial votes.

Welcome.

I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board members Colin Levy and Mene Uquay-Ukwe-Brua.

The director of national intelligence or DNI has oversight over the nation's 18 intel agencies.

That person works directly with the president, including on the president's daily intelligence

brief. President Trump has nominated former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard,

but it sounds as though there remains doubt about whether she is going to have the votes.

Here's Utah Republican Senator John Curtis after Gabbard's testimony on Thursday.

I leave today's hearing with more questions than answers.

Some of her responses and non-responses

created more confusion than clarity and only deepened my concerns about her judgment, unquote.

Let's dig into a couple substantive points here. Colin, the first of the concern seems to be around

this surveillance program called Section 702. As I understand

it, this is a surveillance authority that targets foreigners abroad. That information gets

swept up into a database, and then intelligence agencies in some instances can search that database

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