Washington toi correspondent:Tulsi Gabbard was not born yet when Bollywood went out to the main film Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (I’m the sacred basil in your patio) in 1978, a movie about fidelity. In an ice cream on Wednesday night in Washington DC, the first Hindu, Hindu-American Hindu of the United States and new intelligence tsar The United States crossed the threshold in Blair House, the United States. Casa de Espéspedes Presidential, to greet an old friend and supporter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The meeting took place only a few hours after Gabbard had been confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the National Intelligence Department, and minutes after Modi arrived in the capital of the United States. The unusual commitment, spy bosses rarely find world leaders in public, certainly unite well for intelligence cooperation between the two countries. “He met the US National Intelligence Director of the United States.
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As director of National Intelligence (DNI), Gabbard will not be only the main ghost of the United States, but also an official at the cabinet level with supervision of 18 intelligence agency, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Security Agency National (NSA), an organization so secret that once it was not called such an agency. The DNI also serves as the main advisor of the president of the United States and its National Security Council on all matters of intelligence. The DNI office also produces the Daily Brief (PDB) of the president, a document classified for the latest information around the world that the president of the United States reads almost early in the morning.
Crucially, the DNI also establishes a policy to share intelligence with foreign agencies, something that has been an incomplete job in progress with respect to India from the moment that Interior Minister Lkadvani became the prime minister of High rank to visit the CIA headquarters in Langley in 2002, in the months after September 11.
But modi-gabbard friendship goes beyond Intel and politics. Although it is from the American inheritance, Gabbard’s hug to Hinduism, derived from his mother’s conversion to Vaishnavismo de Gaudiya, has long attracted it to India. Modi was one of the first to recognize spiritual ties and invited her to India in 2014 shortly after becoming prime minister. Gabbard, then a first -term Hawaii congressman, later presented as a gift for modi a personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita He had read since his childhood, and in which he provided oath. A year later, when he married Oahu, Modi sent the veteran of RSS and then BJP spokesman, Ram Madhav, with gifts from a Ganesh statuette and a sashmina chast, and a personal message.
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During the ceremony, Madhav took the stage to transmit the greetings of Modi. “All of us here shared the happiness of his family and his loved ones on this important day,” he read of the Modi Chart Honeymoon in the earth of Devas. “Then he delivered gifts from Modi: a Pashmina chance and a Ganesh statuette.
Gabbard never assumed the offer of “devas”, but now he has the task of fighting, he covers, the “Asuras”, although there is some confusion about who Trump puts in the category. One thing is safe; They are not the Russians.
Gabbard has been ridiculed in the establishment of the United States as a “Russian puppet”, and significantly, came to Blair House to meet Modi shortly after Trump had thrown Ukraine under the bus and announced that he met with Vladimir Putin in Arabia Saudi. For India, who has long walked a tightrope between her long -standing ties with Moscow and her new walders with Washington, there could be no more auspicious news from, and in the form of Tulsi Gabbard.