"I'm not Putin's puppet and dictators." A candidate for head of National Intelligence before the U.S. Senate

"Those who argue my appointment propose that I am loyal to something or individual another than God, my own conscience and the Constitution of the United States, accusing me of being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, guru's puppet, Modi's puppet, not noticing the absurdity of being a puppet at the same time of 5 different leaders," Gabbard said at the beginning of the proceeding before the legislature intelligence committee.