
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s intelligence director nominee, walked back some of her past defenses of foreign adversaries and criticism of U.S. government surveillance but repeatedly refused to call CIA leaker Edward Snowden a "traitor" in a combative confirmation hearing on Thursday. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became a Trump ally in recent years, defended her loyalty to the United States and her military background and vowed that she would speak "truth to power" during her Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. But she also struggled to address ongoing concerns from...