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Bill Pulte: Trump enforcer turned spy chief

Summary by The Week
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has no known national security experience. But the selected person, Bill Pulte, does have a history of going after Trump’s rivals. It is a combination that is raising alarms in Congress.The 38-year-old Pulte is an “unusual selection” to be the interim intelligence chief following Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation, said The Hill. Before leading the Federal H…

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President Trump has appointed William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as interim director of the ODNI. An unusual name for a position that demands maximum solvency in intelligence, because Pulte has never stepped on a center of operations or a crisis room. I put it in context: the maneuver is only possible thanks to the cracks of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, a law that the legislators of 1998 believed to shield agains…

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The Week broke the news in Washington, United States on Friday, June 5, 2026.
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