Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, as the US president weighs whether to resume strikes on Iran in a war that has reverberated across the Middle East.
A longtime critic of US interventions in overseas conflicts, Gabbard had been a controversial pick to lead the nation’s spy agencies and an increasingly uncomfortable fit in an administration that has forced regime change in Venezuela and launched a war in Iran.
She announced her resignation in a letter posted on social media on Friday, saying that her husband had been diagnosed with an “extremely rare form of bone cancer” and she was leaving public office to “fully support him through this battle”.
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