
CONFIRMATION BIAS — Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) shocked Washington in 2017 with her mysterious meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, she’s arguably been sympathetic to various planks of Russia’s arguments for invasion. She’s President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, but has limited experience as a member of the intelligence community. Any one of those resume bullet points might be enough to sink her precariously perched nomination, but in her confirmation hearing today it was Edward Snowden that dominated...