A mysterious meeting with Syrian president is at the center of spy chief’s nomination fight

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Tulsi Gabbard returned to Washington from a clandestine sit-down with Syria’s then-president Bashar Assad eight years ago this month, she was greeted with a flurry of criticism.

Lawmakers and civil society groups chastised Gabbard, then a Hawaii congresswoman, for her meeting with an avowed U.S. adversary whose administration has been credibly accused of war crimes and major human rights abuses. A Republican congressman even called the meeting a “disgrace.”

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A mysterious meeting with Syrian president is at the center of spy chief's nomination fight

Questions continue to dog Tulsi Gabbard about a mysterious 2017 trip to Syria. The trip has gained new salience since President Donald Trump nominated the former Democratic lawmaker to be the nation's spy chief.
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"Lawmakers of both parties have said Gabbard’s meeting with Assad raises questions about the judgment and worldview of someone tapped to be Trump’s director of national intelligence. Trump and his allies have brushed off criticism of Gabbard’s face-to-face with Assad. “I met with Putin. I met with President Xi of China. I met with Kim Jong-un twice. Does that mean that I can’t be president?” Trump said on NBC in December, adding that Gabbard is a “highly respected person.”
 
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In “Circles in the Sky,” Cornish, Spergel and Starkman explained how cosmological data might reveal that our universe has topology like that of a 3D torus (one of many shapes they considered). They proposed looking for this evidence in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a steady stream of photons from the early universe that reaches us from all directions. The CMB tells us how the universe looked just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when light was first able to travel through the cosmos unimpeded. By observing these photons today, we can map a spherical surface called the last scattering surface (LSS) — a snapshot of the universe at that early time. The brightness and temperature throughout the surface appear to be remarkably uniform, with variations of just one part in 100,000 from one spot to another.
 
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In “Circles in the Sky,” Cornish, Spergel and Starkman explained how cosmological data might reveal that our universe has topology like that of a 3D torus (one of many shapes they considered). They proposed looking for this evidence in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a steady stream of photons from the early universe that reaches us from all directions. The CMB tells us how the universe looked just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when light was first able to travel through the cosmos unimpeded. By observing these photons today, we can map a spherical surface called the last scattering surface (LSS) — a snapshot of the universe at that early time. The brightness and temperature throughout the surface appear to be remarkably uniform, with variations of just one part in 100,000 from one spot to another.
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I broke Hume again.
 
Assad, who was enormously helpful to us during the Debacle in Iraq, found out that cooperation with the empire will not save you....it is taken as proof of weakness to be exploited.

Europeans will figure it out one day.
 
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