- United States
- Va.
- Letter
Stop Bill Pulte From Gutting the Intelligence Community
To: Sen. Kaine, Sen. Warner
From: A constituent in Arlington, VA
June 19
Block Bill Pulte from firing career intelligence staff at ODNI. Pulte is a Trump loyalist with zero intelligence experience, serving in an acting capacity only until Jay Clayton is confirmed — and he's already asking to take the President's Daily Briefing home. That's not a reformer getting up to speed. That's a security risk with a termination list.
Career intelligence professionals aren't bureaucratic deadweight. They are the institutional knowledge that keeps this country safe across administrations. Pulte is reportedly eyeing cuts of hundreds of positions. Gutting expert staff to install loyalists in a temporary directorship isn't efficiency — it's sabotage of the intelligence apparatus for political reasons. Congress has both the authority and the responsibility to intervene before irreversible damage is done.