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华盛顿讯 — 参议院情报委员会首席民主党议员马克·沃纳周日表示，他希望参议院本周能够确认特朗普总统的新任国家情报总监提名。此前，总统有争议的代理情报总监人选提名陷入僵局，导致一项关键间谍情报授权于上周末到期。
“我希望我们能尽快确认克莱顿的提名。之后我们将迅速推动《外国情报监控法》第702条的重新授权，”这位弗吉尼亚州民主党议员在《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》节目中说道。
总统于周四宣布，将提名现任纽约南区联邦检察官杰伊·克莱顿出任下一任国家情报总监，此前图尔西·加巴德以丈夫确诊癌症为由辞去国家情报总监职务。此次提名出台前，民主党及部分共和党议员曾对特朗普选择联邦住房金融局局长比尔·普尔特尔担任代理国家情报总监一事表示反对。
只要普尔特尔有望出任该职位，民主党就拒绝同意延长这项无需搜查令的监控授权。随后，就在该间谍授权即将到期的数小时前，总统宣布克莱顿为其长期提名的情报负责人。但这一举措为时已晚，众议院已经休会，国会无法采取干预行动。
参议院将于周一复会，共和党领袖已表示计划迅速推进克莱顿的提名程序。参议院情报委员会定于周三举行提名听证会。
沃纳表示：“我的希望是，如果能获得一致同意，我们甚至可以在本周完成他的确认程序。”他补充道，希望总统能要求加巴德留任至克莱顿获得确认，或者允许其副手主持工作。民主党预计将反对任何该间谍授权的重新授权，除非普尔特尔不再担任该职务。
这位情报委员会副主席阐述了他对普尔特尔执掌情报部门的担忧，称其缺乏国家安全相关经验，且会接触美国机密项目。
“出于无知，他可能会泄露信息。我曾听到我国情报部门负责人对我们说，他们害怕向他透露信息。还有外国政府对此表达了极大担忧，”沃纳说道。“我们对比尔·普尔特尔有一点很清楚：他会不折不扣执行唐纳德·特朗普的命令。他曾将私人抵押贷款保险信息政治化。让他掌管18个情报机构将是一场灾难，也是对国家安全的威胁。”
特朗普总统周日下午对民主党人的立场表达了不满，在Truth社交平台上发帖称：“民主党人为什么如此害怕比尔·普尔特尔出任国家情报总监？？？”在另一篇帖子中，总统表示他反对重新授权该间谍授权，除非附上他长期以来推动的一项选举法案——而这遭到了民主党人的普遍反对。
至于克莱顿，沃纳称“我了解杰伊，我认为他具备合适的气质”，但他同时指出，希望就维护选举诚信问题对这位提名人进行质询。
沃纳承认，《外国情报监控法》授权的过期构成了“国家安全风险”。但他认为，这一情况之所以发生，是因为总统“在时限耗尽之前都没有提名克莱顿或任何其他合适人选”。
沃纳表示，“这一切本不必发生”，他认为如果总统“早几天”宣布克莱顿为提名人，授权就不会过期。
“如果真的发生什么不幸事件，责任将由一人承担，”沃纳说道。“那个人就是唐纳德·特朗普。”
Sen. Mark Warner says he hopes Senate can confirm Trump’s DNI pick “this week”
June 14, 2026 / 3:26 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that he’s hopeful the Senate can confirm President Trump’s new nominee for director of national intelligence this week, amid an impasse over the president’s controversial pick to serve as acting intelligence chief that resulted in the expiration of a key spy authority late last week.
“We will get Clayton, I hope, confirmed as quickly as possible. We will then move very quickly to get FISA reauthorized,” the Virginia Democrat said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan”.
The president announced on Thursday that he was nominating Jay Clayton, the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be the next director of national intelligence as Tulsi Gabbard resigning as director of national intelligence, citing husband’s cancer diagnosis. The move came after Democrats, and some Republicans, had balked at Mr. Trump’s selection of the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, to serve as acting director of national intelligence.
Democrats refused to agree to an extension of a warrantless surveillance authority under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as long as Pulte was set to assume the role. Then, with just hours before the spy authority was set to expire, the president announced Clayton as his long-term pick for intelligence chief. But the move came too late for Congress to intervene, with the House having already left town.
The Senate will return on Monday, where GOP leaders have indicated that they plan to move quickly on Clayton’s nomination. The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Warner said “my hope is, if we can get unanimous consent, we could even get him confirmed this week,” adding that he hopes that the president would ask Gabbard to stay on until Clayton can be confirmed, or allow her deputy to take the reins. Democrats are expected to oppose any reauthorization of the spy authority unless Pulte is out of the picture.
The intelligence committee vice chairman outlined his concerns about Pulte at the helm, citing his lack of national security experience and the exposure he would have to the nation’s classified programs.
“Out of ignorance, he might give away information. I’ve had heads of our intelligence community say to us they’re terrified of showing him information. I’ve had foreign governments express huge concern,” Warner said. “One thing we know about Bill Pulte is he will do whatever Donald Trump says. He was able to weaponize private mortgage insurance information. Giving him the keys to the 18 intelligence agencies would be a disaster and a national security threat.”
Mr. Trump expressed exasperation over Democrats’ position on Sunday afternoon, writing in a post on Truth Social, “Why are the Dumocrats so afraid of of Bill Pulte at DNI???” In another post, the president said he’s opposed to reauthorizing the spy authority unless an elections bill he’s long pushed for is attached — which Democrats widely oppose.
As for Clayton, Warner said “I know Jay, I think he’s got the right temperament,” though he noted that he wants to question the nominee about maintaining election integrity.
Warner acknowledged that the FISA authority’s expiration poses a “national security risk.” But he argued it occurred because the president “did not put forward Clayton or anyone else that was legitimate until the clock had run out.”
Warner said “none of this needed to happen,” arguing that the expiration wouldn’t have occurred if the president would have announced Clayton as his pick “a few days earlier.”
“If there is something that happens, God forbid the responsibility lies with one man,” Warner said. “Donald Trump.”
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