Any appointee of Trump deserves suspicion at the very least because his every nominee is primarily chosen to be a stooge. Some stooges are relatively qualified if the reference points are RFK Jr. and Hegspeth. They're merely dangerously incompetent or crazy. Take a look at Patel, and you have a candidate who is not qualified to run the FBI but dangerously competent to abuse it.
Gabbard? She's probably better than those guys. I don't need to see her testimony to know she has neither the experience or any proven qualities to be considered for DNI in any administration operating with even a molecule of good faith.
The big picture of the assembly of this administration is pretty much all the evidence you need to reject these nominess out of hand should you be one of the minority in this country that care about or even have a mild understanding of the republic.
When the overall theme is dishonesty, corruption, and abuse of power, why quibble on the choice of minions?