Acting DNI Pulte fires dozens of intelligence officials: MS Now
By: Justin Papp (CNBC)
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte has fired dozens of intelligence officials, MS Now reported on Friday.
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte has begun a new spate of firings within the ranks of the U.S. intelligence community, MS Now reported on Friday.
Pulte, whom President Donald Trump tapped as acting spy chief in June, sent out notices of termination on Thursday to dozens of intelligence officials, MS Now reported, citing an intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
The intelligence official told MS Now that the Trump administration was removing officials "who they believe are deep state" and who have allegedly failed to provide complete pictures of available intelligence.
The White House and the office of the Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.
CNN first reported last month that Pulte had eliminated several political appointees who served under Tulsi Gabbard, the former director of national intelligence who announced her resignation in May.
Trump reportedly said in early June that he wanted Pulte to "start the process" of firing large numbers of DNI employees. The office of DNI oversees 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the National Security Agency.
The president's decision to tap Pulte has drawn sharp bipartisan criticism from members of Congress.
Pulte, who also serves as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has used his perch to investigate opponents of Trump's for alleged mortgage fraud.
Amid congressional opposition to Pulte, Trump in June announced that Jay Clayton, the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was his permanent pick for DNI.
The Senate attempted to fast-track Clayton's bid, scheduling a confirmation hearing for June 17. But Trump scuttled the effort, instructing Clayton not to attend in a Truth Social post hours before the hearing and stating that Pulte would remain acting DNI in the interim.
Pulte assumed the interim role on June 19, gaining access to the most sensitive U.S. intelligence data.
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Trump, totally lacking in any intelligence himself, is hollowing out the intelligence agencies that keep us safe. Winning!!!
pulte answers to trump, who answers to putin ...
I believe all this is directly in service of Trump trying to steal the elections in November.
those will probably be a maga bloodbath, one way or another ...
Pulte has absolutely no experience in the intelligence community.
None whatsoever.
So for him to come into the office in charge of that community and start firing people is without merit, except as a continuation of Trump’s own rotten precedent of placing loyalists with no intelligence background over the intelligence community. One of the only things that can be observed as a result is the further weakening of the U.S. position in intelligence. It is almost like Donald Trump wants the United States weakened from within and made vulnerable to outside forces.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Say it isn't so.
This fuckhead thinks loyalty to Trump outweighs loyalty to country. Period. He is metaphorically lining himself up against the same wall the rest of this administration will have their backs against when they lose power. And they will.
He and the rest of this administration are treasonous traitors to the Constitution and to the United States of America, which they swore an oath to uphold. I think Trump knows what he and his underlings are doing, and what they are doing is delivering up the United States to all enemies, foreign and domestic. For fun and profit. Whether they fully realize that or not is immaterial. They do not care because they are drunk on power and getting richer by the second.
As JR mentioned above, this might be "...directly in (the) service of Trump trying to steal the elections in November." Who would have thought that a person who has laid the groundwork to contest any election he does not win outright would do so again?
Hahahahaha! That was a rhetorical question.
Of course he would. Of course he is. Of course he will.
Trump is an un-American piece of shit who should end up penniless and naked, along with the rest of his treasonous administration, in the gutter of a foreign land where hopefully they do not recognize him. At least then he might get some sympathy. Otherwise, the time he has spent denigrating and diminishing the rest of the world (unless you are a dictatorial asshole), would probably serve to his detriment.
Call me Cassandra, but please note that Cassandra was correct.
maga has already had an insurrection dress rehearsal, that failed, and more importantly they got away with it. now maga evangelicals are fulfilling project 2025's main objectives of their thumper theocracy nirvana within the infrastructure of our government by installing people whose primary allegiance is to their version of xtianity, whether normal law abiding and constitution supporting americans like it or not. we're even fighting, and having to pay for, their stupid fucking religious wars. if by chance we actually have a free and fair election in november, and democrats prevail, job one will be to fix SCOTUS, investigate and prosecute this criminal administration, and set the IRS on their tax exempt religion business whose sole purpose is to funnel cash from the gullible directly to the religious money laundering organizations that exist primarily to fund the conservative right.