Gabbard, an Army Reserve officer whose antiwar views are seen as sympathetic to Moscow, is considered an unconventional choice to lead U.S. spy agencies.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created after 9/11 to remedy what American policy makers believed was a lack of coordination among the various national-intelligence agencies,

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has selected former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as his director of national intelligence. Gabbard represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat from 2013 to 2021 and unsuccessfully sought the party's presidential nomination in 2020.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he is appointing former Representative Tulsi Gabbard—the ex-Democrat from Hawaii—as his director of national intelligence (DNI). Gabbard is among the latest of Trump's selections to key positions following his victory in the presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris last week,

Trump picks Tulsi Gabbard, former Democratic congresswoman, as nominee for director of national intelligence.

In a statement on Wednesday, President-elect Trump announced that he is appointing Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence in his new Cabinet.

Gabbard hasn't worked directly in the intelligence community but served two years on the House Homeland Security Committee.