On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” The Atlantic Staff Writer David Brooks stated that while he thinks that Bill Pulte should not have been named acting Director of National Intelligence, Democrats who are refusing to extend the FISA program are doing so
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WASHINGTON — For the first time in nearly two decades, Congress missed a deadline for reauthorization of a key surveillance authority, raising questions about whether the U.S. government can continue to monitor certain communications. Lawmakers have regularly approved short- and long-term extensions for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act since 2008, clearing the […]
Jay Clayton’s appointment as director of national intelligence is not much of an improvement over Bill Pulte.
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State of the Union: The nomination follows backlash against Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte for director of national intelligence.
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The president’s preference for who fills the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reportedly comes down to a casual disregard for the role in its entirety.
Donald Trump tapped Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, on Thursday as his pick for Tulsi Gabbard’s permanent replacement. It was a shocking about-face for the typically stubborn commander in…
President Donald Trump announced on social media the nomination of Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to the permanent position.
The Trump administration’s Epstein investigator is getting his shot at running U.S. national intelligence.
The president’s nominating process to replace Tulsi Gabbard took a sudden right turn Thursday when he named Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, as his permanent director of national intelligence.
“Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at…
The White House is corroding from the inside.
The president is reportedly “pissed” and “increasingly frustrated with everyone” surrounding him—though the drama seems to be a mess of his own creation.
The pressing issue started last week, when Donald Trump suddenly appointed Bill Pulte—a national real estate developer serving as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—to run U.S.…
The government’s sweeping spying powers will remain in place for a year, regardless of who becomes director of national intelligence. Both sides are pretending that’s not the case.
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President Donald Trump urged Congress Wednesday to provide a short-term FISA extension as he taps Bill Pulte to be Acting DNI.
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Before any votes to reauthorize FISA, before any votes to seat a permanent DNI, and especially before any votes to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, Republicans in the Senate need to think long and hard about about the foreign consequences of their votes.
The post The World Knows Trump’s Team is Not Qualified to Use FISA, Too appeared first on emptywheel.
House Speaker Mike Johnson failed Tuesday to convince President Donald Trump to sacrifice his crooked crony in order to save FISA.
In a meeting at the White House, Trump indicated that he would not nominate a replacement for Bill Pulte, the wildly inexperienced housing official he appointed as acting director of national intelligence.
Pulte’s appointment prompted Democrats to pull their support…
Democrats should do more than refuse to reauthorize FISA 702 until Trump pulls his bid to put Bill Pulte in charge of the Office of Director of National Intelligence. Todd Blanche's history of lying and weaponization makes him patently unqualified to certify FISA certifications, whether for individual FISA orders or 702.
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Yet another story describing the extent to which Todd Blanche has weaponized four districts of DOJ against Jim Comey will undoubtedly provide more fodder for a vindictive prosecution that might lead to further disclosures.
The post NYT Details Todd Blanche’s Personal Involvement in 8647ing Jim Comey appeared first on emptywheel.
"Part of what the DNI has to do is determine which ones of those briefs are most important, has to put them in order, has to assess them," said Rich Kolko.
President Donald Trump blew up his party’s own Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, renewal in order to install yet another wildly inexperienced MAGA loyalist.
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has been planning since April to pass a long-term extension of FISA Section 702, which is intended to shield U.S. citizens from the country’s warrantless surveillance program overseas.
The…
President Trump wants his new director of national intelligence to fire more people.
Trump told _The Wall Street Journal_ Friday that he told Bill Pulte, whom he named acting director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, that he thought the office was “unnecessary” or “too big.”
“I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,”…
Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, will not be the permanent director of national intelligence, President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday.
Trump said other candidates were under consideration for nomination to the post. “We’re interviewing people right now,” he said.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has joined his Democratic colleague, Cory Booker, in a court filing to block President Trump’s so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
Cassidy and Booker filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the fund, alleging that it goes against the Constitution by making “an end-run around Congress’s institutional authority” and violating the spending,…
President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence is roiling an emerging bipartisan extension of warrantless spying.
The post Senate Democrats Threaten to Punt FISA Over Pulte Appointment appeared first on The American Prospect.
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A tough sell.
Democratic lawmakers are hoping to force Republicans to remove Bill Pulte from his new side-gig as acting director of national intelligence.
Senator Mark Warner told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to get Pulte removed or risk Democrats withholding their votes for Donald Trump’s long-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Punchbowl News reported…
Bill Pulte for director of national intelligence? _Really?_
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Tuesday that he is appointing William J. Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence, following the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, in which capacity Pulte has also appointed himself chairman of the Federal National Mortgage…
At least four Republican senators are not feeling Bill Pulte, President Trump’s pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as acting director of national intelligence.
“I see no evidence of any qualifications for that job,” GOP Senator John Cornyn, who recently lost his reelection campaign thanks to a Trump endorsement of his opponent, told PBS’s Lisa Desjardins.
“He doesn’t seem very qualified,” added…
FISA 702 expires on June 12. That provides Democrats leverage to force Trump to find someone besides Bill Pulte to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
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President Trump has appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence following Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation last week.
Trump announced the move in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, and said Pulte would keep his existing jobs as chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as head of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency.
“William has deep experience managing the most…
The resounding theme of the press conference was about making credit scoring “cheaper” for borrowers at the time of loan origination.
Mortgage groups welcomed HUD and FHFA plans for FICO 10T and VantageScore 4.0, but want timelines, pricing and guidance.