Ex-director of counterterrorism at CIA endorses Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence director

The former director of counterterrorism at the CIA, Ben Hudson, on Friday endorsed Tulsi Gabbard for the director of National Intelligence.

Hudson published a piece in the National Review on why Gabbard would be a good fit for the position. 

"She has the right experience, temperament, and professional integrity to restore faith in America’s intelligence community," Hudson wrote, he wrote.

President-elect Donald Trump appointed Gabbard for the position back in November. 

Hudson said Gabbard knows the cost of military interventionism and is a soldier who served in Iraq.

"She has also worn her country’s uniform for over two decades in the U.S. Army, with a combat deployment to Iraq," Hudson wrote. "As a soldier, she knows both the importance of patriotism and the cost that all military interventions inevitably require."

During the 2020 primary, Gabbard, thenv[v attracted attention during a debate in which she attacked then-Sen. Kamala Harris's record as a prosecutor. She also resonated with Republicans as a voice for a restrained foreign policy.