更新于2026年6月11日，美国东部时间下午3:16 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：亚当·坎ryn
2025年12月10日，纽约南区联邦检察官杰伊·克莱顿在纽约的一场新闻发布会上发言。
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周四宣布，他将提名纽约南区联邦检察官杰伊·克莱顿担任下一任国家情报总监。
“全美法律界鲜有能达到杰伊这样声望的人，”特朗普在其Truth Social平台的帖子中写道。“我敦促美国参议院尽快确认杰伊的任职。”
此次提名克莱顿——他曾在特朗普首届任期内担任美国证券交易委员会主席——正值特朗普此前任命住房事务高级官员比尔·普尔蒂担任代理国家情报总监的风波之际，此前图尔西·加巴德计划离职。
提拔毫无已知国家安全背景的普尔蒂一事，引发了两党议员的反对，还危及到关键政府监控权力的续期。
自普尔蒂获任以来，共和党议员一直敦促特朗普尽快任命一位更合格的常设人选。
但特朗普的此次声明不太可能挽救这项关键间谍权力法案，该法案将于周五到期。民主党人在看到特朗普的Truth Social帖子后仍无动于衷。他们表示，只有更换普尔蒂的代理情报总监职务，才会投票支持延长《外国情报监控法》。
普尔蒂是一名富商，去年获任联邦住房金融局局长，他一直是特朗普的忠实支持者，曾通过刑事 referrals 追查多名被总统视为最大政治对手的人物。
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特朗普周二宣布普尔蒂将于6月19日开始担任代理国家情报总监——早于加巴德预计的6月30日离职时间——这一消息令情报机构工作人员和国会议员感到震惊。
在特朗普宣布提名克莱顿之前，这位曼哈顿联邦最高检察官本周早些时候做客美国全国广播公司财经频道（CNBC），期间被追问加州投票计票缓慢的州级法律与实际欺诈证据之间的区别。
“有一句名言说得好，‘存在欺诈的机会’，”克莱顿说道。
作为一名资深企业律师，克莱顿在共和党圈子里广为人知。自去年以来，他一直担任纽约南区联邦检察官，是针对委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗的起诉书签署人之一，该起诉书于美国突袭抓捕马杜罗时公开。
国家情报总监职位的人事变动
如果获得确认，克莱顿将成为加巴德之后特朗普的第二位常设国家情报总监。加巴德于上月宣布辞职，原因是其丈夫被诊断出患有罕见骨癌。
但他即将接手的这个办公室在过去几个月里一直动荡不安，内部存在地盘之争、多名高管高调辞职，还面临大幅裁员的前景。
特朗普最初选择前民主党众议员加巴德担任其最高情报官员，是因为她的不干预主义和“美国优先”理念，这一理念让她脱离民主党，加入了“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）阵营。
但她的孤立主义倾向很快让她与特朗普针对伊朗和委内瑞拉的军事行动产生分歧。在乔·肯特——她领导下的国家反恐中心负责人——因反对对伊朗开战而突然辞职后，加巴德受到了更多审查。
在宣布辞职的数月前，加巴德经常被排除在特朗普第二任期内的一些重大外交政策决策之外。
相反，她的大部分精力都放在清除她认为属于所谓“深层政府”的人员上——也就是情报界中被总统怀疑违背其利益行事的人。
国家情报总监职位是在9/11事件后设立的，负责监管构成情报界的18个机构，其设立初衷是避免再次发生情报机构之间不共享信息的灾难性情报失误。
本文已更新补充更多信息。
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Trump says he will nominate Jay Clayton to top intelligence post
Updated Jun 11, 2026, 3:16 PM ET / CNN
By Adam Cancryn
Jay Clayton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a press conference in New York, on December 10, 2025.
Jeenah Moon/Reuters/File
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he’s nominating Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be his next director of national intelligence.
“Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible.”
The selection of Clayton — who served as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term — comes amid a firestorm over Trump’s earlier decision to make top housing official Bill Pulte the acting national intelligence chief following the planned departure of Tulsi Gabbard.
The elevation of Pulte, who has no demonstrated national security background, prompted pushback from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers and has endangered the renewal of critical government surveillance powers.
Since Pulte’s selection, Republican lawmakers had urged Trump to quickly name a more qualified permanent nominee.
But Trump’s announcement is unlikely to save the key spy powers authority from its expiration Friday, as Democrats remained largely unmoved following the president’s Truth Social post. Pulte, they said, would still need to be replaced as the acting spy chief to earn their votes in support of a FISA extension.
Pulte — a wealthy businessman who was confirmed as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency last year — has been a Trump loyalist with a record of going after many of the president’s biggest perceived political enemies through criminal referrals.
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The president indicated to House Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this week that he wouldn’t back down away from Pulte, despite threats from Democrats to let the key surveillance power lapse over the appointment, two sources briefed on the meeting told CNN.
Trump stunned intelligence staffers and lawmakers on Tuesday by announcing Pulte would start his role as acting DNI on June 19 — before Gabbard’s anticipated departure on June 30.
His announcement about Clayton comes after Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor appeared on CNBC earlier this week, where he was grilled about the distinction between state laws that make California’s vote tabulation a slow process and actual evidence of fraud.
“There’s a great phrase, ‘opportunity for fraud,’” Clayton said.
A longtime corporate attorney, Clayton is well known within Republican circles. He has served as the top US attorney in the Southern District of New York since last year, where he was one of the signatories on the indictment against then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that was unsealed in coordination with his capture in a US raid.
Turnover at DNI
If confirmed, Clayton would become Trump’s second permanent chief of national intelligence after Gabbard, who announced her resignation last month, citing her husband’s diagnosis of a rare form of bone cancer.
Yet the office he’s now poised to inherit has faced a tumultuous several months rife with internal turf wars, high-profile resignations and the prospect of severe downsizing.
Trump originally selected Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, as his top intelligence official thanks to her non-interventionist, “America First” ideology that had pushed her away from the Democratic Party and into the MAGA fold.
But her isolationist tendencies quickly put her at odds with Trump’s military actions against Iran and Venezuela. She came under additional scrutiny following the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent, who headed the National Counterterrorism Center under her command, over his objections to the war with Iran.
Months before announcing her resignation, Gabbard was routinely sidelined from some of the biggest foreign policy decisions of Trump’s second term.
Instead, much of her focus revolved around rooting out actors she thought were part of the so-called deep state — people in the intelligence community who the president suspected were working against his interests.
The DNI role, created after 9/11, oversees the 18 agencies that make up the intelligence community and was designed to avoid another catastrophic intelligence failure in which spy agencies don’t share information with each other.
This story has been updated with additional information.
CNN’s Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Aileen Graef contributed to this report.
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