Asked if she was aware of the threats made by Hassoun, Gabbard said under oath, "I was not and had not heard that until today." It was against this backdrop that the Post reported:
"[D]ocuments reviewed by The Washington Post indicate that Gabbard was aware of Hassoun's threats soon after she returned from her controversial visit to the country in January 2017. The documents, which appear within a larger trove from Gabbard's former congressional office, show that Hassoun's comments on suicide bombers were flagged as problematic by one of her aides in early 2017 and were identified in an external vetting process as the likeliest source of negative publicity about the trip."…
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