Citing the Ukrainian website Strana.ua, RT today reported that Ukraine’sCenter for Countering Disinformation (CCD), has taken down four news bulletins that targeted former Democratic Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. As EIR has documented, the CCD is financed directly by the U.S. State Department and has compiled a hit list of individuals accused of being agents of the Kremlin, paid propagandists for Russia, etc. Individuals whose names appear on the CCD list are targeted for assassination.
Kiev has apparently figured out that targeting the woman whom President-elect Donald Trump has just nominated to be his Director of National Intelligence could be a problem. RT quotes Strana.ua as reporting that the CCD removed four of its postings on Gabbard, including one from April 2022, describing her as someone who, in garbled English, “for several years, has been working for foreign audience for the Kremlin money.”
As of the morning of Nov. 14, the CCD had removed a June 2024 bulletin accusing Gabbard of spreading disinformation about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and a February 2023 post claiming that she was “espousing pro-Russian rhetoric.” Not yet removed from the X account of Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council is the 2022 charge that Gabbard is a recipient of “Kremlin money,” although the link to the CCD posting is reportedly inactive.
Gabbard, a combat veteran with a rank of lieutenant colonel, has consistently argued that the Russia-Ukraine conflict could have been avoided had the U.S. and its allies seriously taken Russia’s security concerns, a major one being the effort to bring Ukraine into NATO. The U.S. arrogantly dismissed those concerns when Russia presented them in detailed form in December 2021. Today, Gabbard insists that the Ukrainian conflict can only be resolved through negotiations. She has minced no words in denouncing Zelenskyy’s corruption, his shutting down of all opposition parties and imposing total control over the media.
