Tulsi Gabbard: “We Have To Remember History”

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On April, 2, 2019, Tulsi Gabbard spoke at a Sanders Institute panel on human rights, immigration, racism, and climate change—issues long championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who helped found the Institute to promote dialogue on social justice and progressive reform. At the time, Gabbard was aligned with many of these causes, advocating against foreign intervention and in favor of civil liberties and environmental responsibility.

By 2025, however, Gabbard serves as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, which has increasingly sought to restrict public discussion of topics like systemic racism, climate policy, and immigration reform—subjects she once supported. And Gabbard has emerged as a leading figure in the administration’s campaign against former President Barack Obama and the U.S. intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Gabbard has accused the Obama administration of manipulating intelligence and even submitted a criminal referral to the DOJ, calling for prosecution of senior Obama-era officials.

These assertions have been strongly challenged by intelligence experts, Democratic lawmakers, and independent fact-checkers. Many observers view Gabbard’s campaign as politically motivated revisionism.

Gabbard is clearly adept at revising. She has reinvented virtually her entire persona in the years since this Sanders Institute Gathering. On the panel, Gabbard was joined by actor/activist Susan Sarandon, feminist economist Radhika Balakrishnan, and Ben Jealous, Executive Director of the Sierra Club. The panel was moderated by Jim Zogby, founder of the Arab American Institute

Watch in full, and find Gabbard’s discussion about foreign policy with Jane Sanders here: https://sandersinstitute.org/1912-2

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