Clayton will take over as US intelligence chief on Monday, Pulte says
The Senate confirmed the former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman this week as Pulte ends a two-month interim tenure and hands over an office with reduced authority.
- Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte announced Saturday that the leadership transition to Jay Clayton will begin Monday, reversing earlier plans for a two-week overlap period.
- Pulte, who also serves as Federal Housing Finance Agency director, had personally urged President Donald Trump to extend his tenure, arguing he had not yet completed his intelligence agency work.
- During his interim tenure, Pulte accelerated staffing cuts and declassified documents supporting Trump's election fraud claims; the Senate confirmed Clayton this week despite Democratic opposition.
- Upon being sworn in next week, Clayton, formerly the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, will assume control of 18 U.S. intelligence agencies.
- Clayton steps into a position vacated by Tulsi Gabbard in June, whose authority has reached a historic low point amid clashes with congressional Democrats over election claims.
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Jay Clayton took office, on Monday (3), as director of U.S. National Intelligence, after a controversial confirmation hearing in the Senate, in which he refused to acknowledge directly that President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. He assumed a position that became vacant in June, when Tulsi Gabbard resigned after a mandate marked by confrontations with Congressional Democrats, who accused her of promoting Trump's political age…
Clayton to Become Top US Intelligence Official on Monday - The Thinking Conservative News
Jay Clayton will take over as director of national intelligence (DNI) on Monday, according to a social media post by acting director Bill Pulte. The post Clayton to Become Top US Intelligence Official on Monday appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
Clayton to Become Top US Intelligence Official on Monday
Jay Clayton will take over as director of national intelligence (DNI) on Monday, according to a social media post by acting director Bill Pulte. “I am eternally grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to serve as Director of National Intelligence, while he completed historic declassifications and we right sized the ODNI. I have no doubt that Jay will do a tremendous job,” Pulte wrote on Aug. 1 in a post on X. “I have offered Jay my comp…
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