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President Donald Trumps pick for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, showed up at his new job a day early on Thursday after asking for a list of every employee in the office so he could assess whether to fire them, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The sources said Pulte is eyeing to cut hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Pultes appearance at ODNI on Thursday caught staff off-guard, including the outgoing director, Tulsi Gabbard, who was given a brief heads up on the visit. Trump himself has said that Pulte, who is a Trump loyalist with no intelligence experience, would start his job on Friday.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/politics/bill-pulte-intel-chief-takes-office
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Swede
(40,453 posts)Bo Zarts
(26,471 posts)'Ole Vlad must be happy now.
orangecrush
(31,747 posts)That wouldn't know intelligence if it bit him on the ass.
no_hypocrisy
(55,655 posts)investigating Bill Pulte the day he was nominated.
orangecrush
(31,747 posts)WmChris
(818 posts)The dismantling of our intelligence seems to part of the plan since their fearless leader dosen't listen to them anyway. Now he can use them to set up whatever false narrative he and his 2025 handlers decide they want the low information cult members to buy into.
Kid Berwyn
(25,403 posts)Sir! Iran excursion is going great, sir!
Now do I get to fire Putins enemies?
dalton99a
(96,102 posts)Nobody Knows More Than Trump About Anything.
question everything
(52,585 posts)Martin68
(28,230 posts)The Trump regime is setting us up for a takeover by Russia, China or both.
Multichromatic
(238 posts)orangecrush
(31,747 posts)0rganism
(25,754 posts)It's long odds, but he takes those bets.
melm00se
(5,184 posts)to clear the decks and build up an AI intelligence practice.
orangecrush
(31,747 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,445 posts)orangecrush
(31,747 posts)allegorical oracle
(6,672 posts)orangecrush
(31,747 posts)AleksS
(1,725 posts)have ever experienced intelligence.
Bengus81
(10,521 posts)Kissing Trumps ass has been proven to not matter. You might be gone by the end of the year.
WestMichRad
(3,502 posts)...Director of National Stupidity.
Grins
(9,576 posts)chouchou
(3,414 posts)IronLionZion
(51,673 posts)LudwigPastorius
(15,212 posts)Figarosmom
(14,520 posts)(usually after speaking to Putin) that he doesn't agree with spys and collecting intelligence with spying techniques. So a loyalist firing hundreds makes sense. This is likely one of the things he hated about Tulsi not doing.