2026年6月7日 / 美国东部时间上午11:16 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿——众议院情报委员会最高民主党人、康涅狄格州众议员吉姆·海姆斯严厉抨击特朗普总统任命有争议的住房官员比尔·普尔特尔担任国家情报代理主任。
特朗普选择曾担任联邦住房金融局局长的普尔特尔，引发了民主党人和部分共和党人的反对，他们认为这会危及一项关键的无授权监视计划——《外国情报监视法》第702条的重新授权，该条款将于本周五到期。
“他没有一丁点国家安全相关的经验，而总统却让他担任这个最为敏感的职位，”海姆斯周日在接受《玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目采访时说道。
“在他任命的一众糟糕人选里，这大概是最糟糕且最危险的一个，”海姆斯说。“他不肯退让，但如果没有第702条的情报收集权限，他也不会乐见可能发生的恐怖袭击。”
国家安全官员长期以来一直认为，该法律对于挫败恐怖阴谋、外国间谍活动、国际毒品走私和网络入侵至关重要。
海姆斯指出，此次任命的时机选在本周五的截止日期之前——国会已经通过短期延期两次推迟了该法案的最终表决——称此举已经将重新授权“从谈判桌上拿掉了”。
“你根本想不出比这更糟糕的时机，这或许是我见过的情报界最糟糕的任命，”他说。“如果我们必须在比尔·普尔特尔出任的背景下通过另一项法案，我认为我们做不到。”
今年4月，众议院通过了一项为期三年的延期法案，有42名民主党人投了赞成票，但该法案因加入了一项无关条款——阻止美联储创建中央银行数字货币——而在参议院陷入停滞。
“我可以告诉你，至少有一半的民主党人已经变卦了，”海姆斯谈及普尔特尔的任命对支持重新授权的民主党议员票数的影响时说。“唯一正确的解决方案——而且我对此不太抱有信心——就是总统说‘哎呀，这是个错误’，撤回对比尔·普尔特尔的任命，转而任命一个不仅能让民主党人，还能让所有人都更放心的人。”
上周，参议院否决了另一项第702条的延期法案，原因是担忧该条款会对美国人进行无授权监视。
共和党参议员、阿肯色州的汤姆·科顿和爱荷华州的查克·格拉斯利周六在写给国务卿马可·卢比奥的一封信中呼吁，“如果第702条在本周五失效，就为外国情报收集可能出现的重大空白做好计划”。
这封被哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获取的信件，呼吁卢比奥“确定所有美国可能因此失去宝贵情报信息的情报目标”，并“确定其他合法且符合宪法的情报收集方法，使美国能够继续对这些个人收集情报”。信中还呼吁白宫“在必要时”起草一项行政命令“来弥补失效条款留下的空白”。
珍妮弗·雅各布斯为本报道贡献了内容。
Rep. Jim Himes says Bill Pulte in intelligence role is Trump’s “worst and most dangerous” appointment
June 7, 2026 / 11:16 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, lambasted President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, a controversial housing official, to serve as acting director of national intelligence.
Mr. Trump’s choice of Pulte, who had been the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has drawn backlash from Democrats and some Republicans, who say it risks the reauthorization of a key warrantless surveillance program — Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — that expires Friday.
“He doesn’t have an iota of national security experience and the president is putting him in this most sensitive of roles,” Himes said in an interview Sunday with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.
“In the basket of awful appointments he has made, this is probably the worst and most dangerous,” Himes said. “He doesn’t like to back down, but he’s also not going to like the terrorist attacks that might happen if there is no 702 collection authority.”
National security officials have long argued that the law is vital for disrupting terrorist plots, foreign espionage, international drug trafficking and cyber intrusions.
Himes noted the timing of the appointment ahead of Friday’s deadline — which Congress has already punted twice through short-term extensions — saying it has taken reauthorization “off the table.”
“You just could not have come up with worse timing for what is probably the worst appointment into the intelligence community that I’ve ever seen,” he said. “If we had to pass another bill in the context of Bill Pulte, I don’t think we could.”
In April, the House passed a three-year extension, with 42 Democrats voting in favor, but the bill stalled in the Senate over the inclusion of an unrelated measure that prevented the Federal Reserve from creating a central bank digital currency.
“I will tell you that at least half of those Democrats are gone,” Himes said of what Pulte’s appointment means for Democratic votes in favor of reauthorization. “The only right answer — and I don’t have a lot of confidence that it’s going to happen — is that the president says, ‘Oops, that was a mistake,’ and pulls the Bill Pulte appointment in favor of somebody who will give not just Democrats, but everybody more confidence.”
Last week, the Senate blocked another extension of Section 702 over concerns about warrantless surveillance of Americans.
Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Chuck Grassley of Iowa asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter on Saturday to “plan for a potential significant gap in foreign intelligence collection” if Section 702 lapses after Friday.
The letter, obtained by CBS News, called on Rubio to “identify all intelligence targets on which the United States may lose valuable intelligence information, “and “determine alternative lawful and constitutional intelligence-collection methods by which the United States could continue collecting intelligence on these individuals.” It also called on the White House, “if necessary,” to draft an executive order “to remedy the gap left by the lapse.”
Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.
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