{"id":617167,"date":"2026-06-11T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=617167"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:25:00","slug":"trump-nominates-us-attorney-jay-clayton-as-director-of-national-intelligence-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=617167","title":{"rendered":"Trump Nominates US Attorney Jay Clayton As Director Of National Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Nominates US Attorney Jay Clayton As Director Of National Intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is nominating Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be his director of national intelligence. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The move comes weeks after former intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard said she is stepping down from the role.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump, in announcing the decision on Truth Social, wrote that \u201cfew people anywhere\u201d in the legal community have as much respect as Clayton, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), whom the president also described as \u201chighly respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>he wrote in the post.<\/p>\n

Last month, Gabbard announced she was stepping down as the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) because her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.<\/p>\n

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte was named by Trump to serve as acting director in a move that drew pushback from Democratic and some Republican lawmakers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pulte will serve as the acting U.S. intelligence chief and would take over from Gabbard later in June, Trump said<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Last week, the president told the Wall Street Journal that he would encourage Pulte to downsize parts of the intelligence office, which oversees 18 federal agencies and units.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn\u2019t be there,\u201d Trump said<\/a> on June 5, adding that Pulte has broader latitude to make significant changes due to his being the acting head of the ODNI.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re less shackled,\u201d he said. \u201cIt sort of gives you more power, you know, for a somewhat limited period of time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Going further, Trump suggested that the ODNI could even be \u201cterminated\u201d in its entirety, noting that a similar downsizing process was undertaken at the Department of Education.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made the Department of Education much smaller, and likewise, this should be much smaller,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trump praised Pulte as a \u201cvery smart guy\u201d while speaking to reporters last week and added that he \u201cmay find out some things about the rigged elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision to name Pulte as acting director, however, prompted Democratic opposition to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in a vote earlier this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJust voted NO again on a clean FISA reauthorization. We shouldn\u2019t allow the government to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans\u2014especially with Bill Pulte in charge,\u201d Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) wrote<\/a> in a post on X as the House failed to extend the provision.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some Republican senators, meanwhile, indicated they would not have voted to appoint Pulte if Trump nominated him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Senate doesn\u2019t have any role to play in terms of confirming acting officials, but I see no evidence of any qualifications for that job,\u201d Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told The Hill about Pulte.<\/em><\/p>\n

Clayton had served as head of the SEC from May 2017 until December 2020.\u00a0 He also served as the head of the prominent law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the largest in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 06\/11\/2026 – 18:25<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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