Pieter Friedrich, an activist and journalist, who has investigated Gabbard’s alleged ties with the RSS, claimed that she owes her early political success to donations from RSS-linked sources. He said: “In the first three to four years of her career in Congress, she was getting, at least that I’ve documented, 20-25 per cent of her campaign funding from these sources.” He has since started an online petition to block her nomination as DNI.

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