2026-06-19T08:00:25.816Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 两名知情人士告诉CNN，特朗普的代理国家情报总监比尔·普尔茨在提前一天抵达岗位后，要求获取办公室所有员工的名单，以便评估是否解雇他们。
- 消息人士称，普尔茨正考虑在国家情报总监办公室（ODNI）裁员数百人。
- 普尔茨此前没有安全许可，上任该职位前也没有情报工作经验。
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的代理国家情报总监比尔·普尔茨于周四提前一天到岗，他此前要求获取办公室所有员工的名单，以便评估是否解雇他们，两名知情人士告诉CNN。
消息人士称，普尔茨计划在国家情报总监办公室削减数百个岗位。
周四普尔茨现身国家情报总监办公室令工作人员措手不及，即将卸任的图尔西·加巴德也仅得到了关于此次到访的简短提前通知。特朗普此前曾表示，没有情报工作经验的特朗普忠实支持者普尔茨将于周五正式入职。
消息人士告诉CNN，普尔茨在到访期间与律师和工作人员进行了会面。
其中一名消息人士透露，在上周普尔茨与国家情报总监办公室的另一场简报会上，他曾询问工作人员能否将总统每日简报（PDB）带回家，这引发了情报官员的警觉。总统每日简报是一份高度机密的材料，包含当日关键国家安全事务的情报信息。第二名消息人士则对这一说法提出反驳，指出总统每日简报是以电子形式提供的。
第一名消息人士还称，尽管本次简报本应向普尔茨介绍国家情报总监办公室的核心使命，但普尔茨还是询问了自己的安全许可级别——是否为绝密级——以及是否有权使用政府专机。
CNN已联系白宫和国家情报总监办公室置评。
CNN此前报道称，在普尔蒂被提名领导美国情报界之前，他并未拥有可接触高度机密信息的安全许可，这意味着他缺乏长期以来被视为该职位的基本任职条件。
另一位知情人士告诉CNN，普尔茨曾多次询问自己的日程安排以及是否会配备政府专机，似乎过于执着于往返华盛顿、佛罗里达和芝加哥的出行能力——他在这三个地方都有房产。
“这有点奇怪，”该消息人士在谈及普尔茨对日程安排和工作要求的提问时表示。
第一名消息人士还称，普尔茨甚至在正式入职前就要求配备安保人员。
这些此前未被报道的细节表明，普尔茨打算以强势姿态开启自己的情报总监任期。特朗普已授权他进一步精简情报机构，并推进特朗普关于选举欺诈的虚假说法。
国会山的民主党人以及部分共和党人担忧，普尔茨不适合该职位，且可能会比加巴德更进一步，在本应保持政治中立的岗位上迎合特朗普的不满情绪。
过去一年，普尔茨担任联邦住房金融局局长期间，曾就抵押贷款欺诈指控向司法部提交刑事检举，涉及多名推动调查特朗普的民主党人，这让他在特朗普眼中的地位有所提升。如今批评人士担忧，这位38岁的前商人将拥有更大的平台来推行特朗普的报复计划。
“这没什么好多想的——特朗普总统希望在该职位上安插一位真正的忠实支持者，一位会按照他的意愿行事的人。比尔·普尔茨正是这样的人选，”一位与普尔茨关系密切的人士此前告诉CNN。
如今，在美国与伊朗达成结束四个月战争的协议之际，普尔茨将接手监督18个情报机构的工作。加巴德作为情报总监在此期间扮演的角色异乎寻常地边缘化。同时，加巴德曾利用该职位搜寻2020年特朗普败选选举中的选民欺诈证据。前情报官员和选举法专家告诉CNN，这种做法可能会越过水门事件后设立的外国与国内情报活动之间的关键界限。
甚至在周四之前，普尔茨就急于开始担任代理国家情报总监。两名知情人士透露，普尔茨上周致电加巴德，告知她自己即将接任该职位。加巴德此前曾获白宫保证，将留任至本月底，因此她对此感到震惊，并告诉普尔茨，她需要亲自从特朗普口中确认此事。随后加巴德与特朗普通话，特朗普询问她何时离职较为合适，双方最终敲定6月19日。（Axios率先报道了此次通话内容。）
周四，普尔茨试图参加加巴德在国家情报总监办公室的送别仪式，并请求发言，一位熟悉该事件的消息人士透露。
普尔茨在特朗普阵营中的地位提升甚至惹恼了特朗普的一些亲密顾问和盟友。白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯一直围绕总统建立了一个紧密的圈子，而普尔茨通过直接致电总统完全绕过了这个圈子。
“每个周末、每次出行——他都会确保自己能陪在总统身边，”一位特朗普顾问告诉CNN。
特朗普曾表示，普尔茨在担任代理国家情报总监期间，将继续留任联邦住房金融局局长一职。这一决定让许多情报专业人士感到困惑，因为情报总监一职被认为并非兼职。
由于特朗普提名的永久国家情报总监人选杰伊·克莱顿的提名程序本周陷入混乱，普尔茨的代理任期可能比预期更长。周三，因国会山就一项失效的监视法等问题爆发激烈争执，特朗普指示克莱顿取消出席确认听证会。
被问及克莱顿提名的进展时，参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩表示：“我之前从未被要求放慢提名进度，所以这个问题或许应该去问白宫。”
参议院情报委员会主席汤姆·科顿罕见地发表声明表示反对，称“令人遗憾的是，总统指示杰伊·克莱顿不要出席今日的确认听证会”。
一名参议院共和党高级助手告诉CNN：“议会内部存在大量不满情绪。我们希望支持并推进总统的议程，但如今越来越难做到这一点，因为总会冒出一些莫名其妙的意外状况。”
普尔茨周四未回应置评请求。CNN已向国家情报总监办公室请求就普尔茨的新工作重点置评。
参议院情报委员会成员、共和党参议员迈克·朗兹表示，他不清楚普尔茨上任后的工作重点是什么，并强调当前的重点应是搁置对普尔茨任期的讨论，尽快让克莱顿正式出任该职位。
“我已经有好几个月没和他有过任何互动了，”朗兹在谈及普尔茨时说道。“我认为对我们来说最重要的事，是尽快让杰伊·克莱顿就任国家情报总监。”
特朗普本月对记者表示，普尔茨“可能会发现一些关于选举被操纵的真相……我认为他非常愿意这么做”。
对于选举官员而言，这进一步加剧了他们的担忧：国家情报总监办公室对选举信心的破坏可能不会随着加巴德的离任而停止。
“加巴德局长关于选举的职责仅限于外国干预调查，她花了18个月时间、动用了不计其数的纳税人资金和资源，试图为2020年选举的谎言提供依据，但最终一无所获，”选举法专家、非营利无党派组织“选举创新与研究中心”执行董事戴维·贝克尔说道。
贝克尔与两党选举官员都有合作，他担忧“普尔茨被选中接替她，恰恰是因为他同样相信这些谎言和阴谋论，却无视相关证据”。
Trump’s new acting intel chief Bill Pulte arrives early, eyes firing hundreds
2026-06-19T08:00:25.816Z / CNN
- Trump’s acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte arrived a day early 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
- Sources say Pulte is considering cutting hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
- Pulte previously did not have a security clearance and has no intelligence experience before taking the role.
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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.
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.
CNN previously reported that before Pulte was announced to lead the US intelligence community, he did not have a security clearance granting him access to highly-classified information — meaning he lacked what has long been considered a basic prerequisite for the job.
Another source familiar told CNN that Pulte has repeatedly inquired about his schedule and whether he gets his own government plane, appearing almost overly fixated on his ability to travel between DC, Florida and Chicago — between which he splits his time.
“That was a bit odd,” the source said about Pulte’s questions related to his schedule and the demands of the job.
Pulte had also asked for a protective security detail even before starting the job, according to the first source.
The episodes, which have not previously been reported, indicate that Pulte feels empowered to begin his tenure as spy chief in an aggressive fashion. Trump has already given him a mandate to further shrink the intelligence community and pursue the president’s false claims of election fraud.
There is concern from Democrats — and some Republicans — on Capitol Hill that he is unfit for the job and that he could go further than Gabbard did in embracing Trump’s grievances in what is supposed to be an apolitical role.
Pulte’s standing in Trump’s eyes grew over the last year when, as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he sent the Justice Department criminal referrals on allegations of mortgage fraud against multiple Democrats who have pushed investigations into Trump. Now, critics fear, the 38-year-old former businessman will have an even bigger platform to pursue Trump’s vendettas.
“This isn’t something to overthink — President Trump wanted someone in that position who is a true loyalist, who will do what he wants him to do. He has that in Bill,” one source close to Pulte previously told CNN.
Now, Pulte takes the job overseeing 18 intelligence agencies as the US and Iran enter an agreement to end a four-month war in which Gabbard played an unusually marginal role for a spy chief. He also enters a job that Gabbard has used to hunt for evidence of voter fraud around the 2020 election that Trump lost. That pursuit risked crossing a crucial line between foreign and domestic intelligence activities instituted after Watergate, former intelligence officials and election law experts have told CNN.
Even before Thursday, Pulte was eager to start as acting DNI. He called Gabbard last week and told her that he was taking over, two sources familiar with the phone call told CNN. Gabbard, who had been assured by the White House that she would remain in the post through the end of the month, was shocked and told Pulte she would need to hear it from Trump himself. Later, Gabbard spoke to Trump who asked her what day would work for her to depart the office, and the two settled on June 19. (Axios first reported that exchange.)
On Thursday, Pulte tried to attend Gabbard’s send-off ceremony at ODNI and asked to speak, the source familiar with the episode indicated.
Pulte’s elevation within Trump’s orbit has even irked some of Trump’s closest advisers and allies. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has kept a tight circle around the president, one that Pulte has completely circumvented through direct calls to the president.
“Every weekend, every trip — he makes sure he is by the president’s side,” one Trump adviser told CNN.
Trump has said Pulte will remain director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency while serving as acting director of national intelligence (DNI). The move left many intelligence professionals scratching their heads because the spy chief is not considered a part-time job.
Pulte could have more time than anticipated as acting DNI after disarray this week in the nomination process for Trump’s permanent pick for the role, Jay Clayton. Trump directed Clayton to skip his own confirmation on Wednesday over a bitter dispute on Capitol Hill over a lapsed surveillance law, among other issues.
Pressed on the status of Clayton’s nomination, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said: “I’ve never been asked to slow a nomination down before, so that’s probably a good question for the White House.”
Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton issued a rare statement of disapproval at Trump’s move, calling it “regrettable that the president has directed Jay Clayton not to appear at his confirmation hearing today.”
A senior Senate GOP aide told CNN: “There’s a lot of frustration in the conference. We want to support and advance the President’s agenda but it’s getting more difficult to do with the consistent curve balls out of left field.”
Pulte did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. CNN has requested comment on Pulte’s priorities for his new job from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
GOP Sen. Mike Rounds, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he does not know what Pulte’s priorities will be on the job and emphasized that the goal should be looking past Pulte’s tenure and getting Clayton in the job permanently as quickly as possible.
“I’ve had no interaction with him for months” Rounds said of Pulte. “I think the most important thing for us is to get Jay in as quickly as possible as the Director of National Intelligence.”
Trump told reporters this month that Pulte “may find out some things about the rigged elections … I think he wants to do it very much.”
For election officials, it reinforced a fear that the undermining of confidence in elections from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence may not stop with Gabbard’s departure.
“DNI Gabbard, whose role regarding elections is limited to foreign interference, spent 18 months and untold taxpayer dollars and resources trying to give substance to lies about the 2020 election … and found absolutely nothing,” said David Becker, an election law expert who is executive director of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research.
Becker, who works with election officials from both parties, said he worries that “Pulte has been hand-picked to replace her precisely because he too embraces the lies and conspiracy theories while ignoring the evidence.”
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