March 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—Jewish Insider sent out an alert early today that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had reportedly tapped retired Col. Daniel Davis, an outspoken military critic of the permanent war policy, to be her Deputy DNI for Mission Integration, whose responsibility is to serve “as the DNI’s principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence … [who] ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence.” EIR does not know if Davis had been offered that post or not, but even the possibility he was, was too much to be tolerated by the war party.
Colonel Davis, who served four combat tours of duty, first came to prominence for his 2012 exposés of the disaster of the Afghanistan war; he has consistently opposed the U.S. policy of military interventions around the globe since, from the use of Ukraine as a proxy for war against Russia to U.S. facilitating of Israel’s massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza, which he calls a “moral stain” on the United States. He interviews many of the well-known military and intelligence dissidents who have spoken out against these travesties on his “Daniel Davis Deep Dive” YouTube channel.
Jewish Insider smeared Davis as an anti-Semite and pro-Hamas for opposing Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza, and then used its smear to mobilize opposition. The ADL warned that his appointment would be “extremely dangerous.” Fox News radio host Mark Levin put out the word on X to shut the nomination down. By late afternoon, JI bragged in its report that his nomination had been pulled, citing the hysterical responses it had generated from three Senators (Republicans Rick Scott and Thom Tillis, and Democrat Mark Warner), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), and three neocon outfits, which helped to shut it down.
Colonel Davis’ answer to Mark Levin is evidence that it is the United States which loses from his appointment being blocked, not him. “Are you perfectly ok with large numbers of innocent Palestinian civilians being killed, even when well beyond what is of military necessity? … By supporting self-evident double standards and war aims that violate our own laws, we undermine our own security and that of our ally Israel. I would argue, Mark, you are neither pro-America nor effectively pro-Israel if you support such actions. I, to the contrary, am sharply focused on America-first policies and strongly support any Israeli policy that can bring peace to all the people in the region. All the people of the region—because if everyone doesn’t have a future and a hope, no one will.”
