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Posted on 06/19/2026 8:13:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Donald Trump’s 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).
Pulte’s 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.
Pulte met with lawyers and staffers during his visit, the sources told CNN.
In his only other briefing with ODNI last week, Pulte asked staff if he could bring the President’s Daily Brief to his house, raising alarm bells among intelligence officials, according to one of the sources. That briefing is a highly classified set of intelligence on key national security matters of the day. The second source pushed back on this characterization, noting that the PDB is provided electronically. The PDB is generally offered to select officials via tablet or hard copy.
Pulte also asked about his level of security clearance — whether it was a top-secret — and if he had access to a government plane, the first source said, even though the briefing was meant to explain the core mission of ODNI to Pulte.
CNN has reached out to the White House and ODNI for comment.
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Oh noes!!! More government freeloading hacks to be fired?! Horrifying.
Purge them all, prosecute the bad actors, and start over.
I would be asking the questions he asked.
Trump has been in office almost a year and a half. Why hasn’t this department scrutiny already been done?
Tulsi.....................
How dare he not understanding the daily inner working of the CIA? Sounds like he’s the perfect guy for the job.
Who says that Gabbard has not already done this?
Pulte is another puffed up self-important Trump hack and he is acting like it.
Why keep anti-American spies on the payroll when you can just get the same services from foreign countries?
Revoke their clearances while you are at it. That way they can’t get lucrative NGO spots.
MSM moles. CCP moles. Democrat moles. RINO moles. Will there be any real employees left?
FR TDSers most unhappy.
Revoke their clearances while you are at it. That way they can’t get lucrative NGO spots.
YES....great point.
Guaca Moles..............
Trump withdrew the Jay Clayton DNI nomination so as to apply pressure on the Senate RINOs to get off their asses and pass the Save Act bundled with FISA 702 renewal before they could move on to approving him.
This is more pressure.
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Yeh, because the offices are likely bugged by deep state moles. 🙄
i want my stapler back
it’s my stapler
i want it back
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