While the DNI position – which is the top intelligence post in the US government (overseeing all the agencies and coordinating intelligence at the NSC and for the White House) – is not fundamentally an office weighing in on the policy side of things, many have still wondered just where her ‘non-interventionist’ voice has been – at least behind the scenes in internal administration deliberations.

The Wall Street Journal reports she was intentionally sidelined from any and all planning for the mission to oust Maduro. “White House officials excluded the top U.S. intelligence officer, Tulsi Gabbard, from Venezuela planning since last summer, according to people with knowledge of the matter,” WSJ writes Thursday.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-reportedly-kept-dark-sidelined-venezuela-operation-nations-intelligence

AND (paywalled)

Tulsi Gabbard Sidelined From Venezuela Planning

Trump’s director of national intelligence has been left out of one of the administration’s most high-profile military operations

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/tulsi-gabbard-venezuela-trump-7506e52e