2026-07-15T17:53:02.571Z / 路透社
华盛顿7月15日电（路透社）——唐纳德·特朗普总统提名的美国最高间谍官员人选杰伊·克莱顿周三在参议院确认听证会上，拒绝直接承认这位共和党籍总统输掉了2020年大选，尽管民主党人多次就此向他提问。
亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利对克莱顿说：“特朗普今天不在场。如果你连他不在场的时候都不敢反对他，那你坐在他对面的时候，还能反对他吗？”
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在特朗普声称美国选举“被操纵”且拒绝承认自己在2020年大选中输给民主党人乔·拜登的背景下，本届政府一直在寻求加强联邦对美国选举的监督。法律专家表示，此类举措将剥夺各州的权力，违反美国宪法。
克莱顿仅表示拜登已被“认证”为总统，同时称：“我不是一个否认选举结果的人。”
特朗普将于周四晚间发表全国讲话，内容涉及最新解密的美国选举情报，以及白宫所称的投票机漏洞问题。
克莱顿的国家情报总监提名参议院情报委员会听证会期间，因他多次拒绝承认拜登在2020年当选而引发激烈争执。
当凯利追问获胜者是否就是国会认证的当选者、同时也是获得最多选举人票的人时，克莱顿表示：“我认为那是你的表述。我真的，我不想再继续这个话题了。”
议员们还就克莱顿目前担任曼哈顿美国检察官期间传唤《纽约时报》记者一事向他提出质疑。
这是情报小组为克莱顿安排的第二次听证会。此前特朗普在上月突然下令推迟首次听证会，以向国会施压，推动一项备受争议的选举限制法案《拯救美国法案》获得通过。
该法案目前仍处于搁置状态，因为未能获得足够多的参议院票数。民权组织表示，该法案将使数百万无法轻易获取护照和出生证明的美国选民丧失投票权。
民主党人原本似乎同意确认克莱顿的提名，希望尽快取代代理国家情报总监比尔·普尔特尔。普尔特尔是特朗普的亲密盟友，同时也是联邦住房金融局局长，缺乏国家安全和情报工作经验。普尔特尔是在图尔西·加巴德于6月离职后接任该职位的。
委员会共和党主席、阿肯色州参议员汤姆·科顿表示，他打算下周初就克莱顿的提名进行投票，并将其提交给全体参议院审议。
2026年7月15日，美国华盛顿国会山，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的国家情报总监人选杰伊·克莱顿在参议院情报委员会确认听证会上作证。
政治化情报？
议员们就克莱顿上周五发出的传票一事向他提问，传票要求《纽约时报》记者在联邦大陪审团面前作证，此前该报报道了涉及特朗普新获得的卡塔尔捐赠的“空军一号”的安全担忧。
该报将此举描述为特朗普恐吓记者行动的“非同寻常的升级”，这一观点得到了一些参议员的呼应。美国司法部表示，此举并非针对记者，而是针对泄露敏感信息的官员。
克莱顿表示，这些传票“与一项正在进行的国家安全调查有关”，是其办公室职业检察官“协商程序”的一部分。
“我绝对致力于并尊重我们的第一修正案以及新闻媒体的作用，”克莱顿说，并补充道他不想详细讨论这起案件。
委员会资深民主党议员、弗吉尼亚州参议员马克·华纳呼吁克莱顿制止他所称的加巴德和普尔特尔“反复试图”将情报政治化的行为。
国家情报总监负责监督美国18个情报机构，是总统的顶级情报顾问，预计应保持中立，并呈现和捍卫可能与白宫观点不符的情报分析结果。
华纳表示，他最担忧的问题之一是，普尔特尔可能会滥用极其敏感的美国选举情报，而这些情报预计将被解密，用于特朗普周四的讲话。
“我就是不明白普尔特尔先生……怎么能判断哪些（情报）适合解密，哪些不适合，因为他上任仅三周，”华纳说。
克莱顿表示，他并未参与特朗普此次演讲的筹备工作。
克莱顿缺乏传统情报机构的丰富经验，但他表示，在担任证券交易委员会主席以及担任曼哈顿美国检察官期间，他曾处理过安全事务。在目前的职位上，他一直在起诉被废黜的委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗。
自上月就任代理职位以来，普尔特尔已宣布多轮裁员，一些共和党人呼吁取消国家情报总监办公室。
克莱顿对此反驳称，有必要设立一个“协调其他17个情报机构的焦点点”。但他补充道，国家情报总监办公室应该“可能撤回”对行动的参与，以及其他机构已承担的职能。
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Trump spy nominee Clayton will not directly say Biden won 2020 election
2026-07-15T17:53:02.571Z / Reuters
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top U.S. spy, Jay Clayton, refused on Wednesday to directly acknowledge that the Republican president lost the 2020 election despite repeated questioning by Democrats in his Senate confirmation hearing.
Trump “isn’t in the room today,” Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona told Clayton. “If you can’t disagree with him when he’s not in the room, are you going to be able to disagree with him when you’re sitting across from him?”
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Propelled by Trump’s claims that U.S. elections are “rigged” and his refusal to accept his 2020 electoral loss to Democrat Joe Biden, the administration has sought to increase federal oversight of U.S. elections. Legal experts say such an effort would take power away from states in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Clayton said only that Biden had been “certified” as president, while saying, “I am not an election denier.”
Trump will deliver a national address on Thursday night about newly declassified intelligence on U.S. elections and what the White House calls voting machine vulnerabilities.
Clayton’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination to serve as director of national intelligence led to shouting when he repeatedly refused to acknowledge that Biden had been elected in 2020.
Pressed by Kelly on whether the winner was the person certified as the victor by Congress and who had the most electoral votes, Clayton said: “I think that’s your characterization. I’m really, I’m not going to continue.”
Lawmakers also questioned Clayton about his recent subpoenas of New York Times journalists in his current role as the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan.
Wednesday’s hearing was the second for Clayton scheduled by the intelligence panel, after Trump last month ordered the abrupt postponement of his first one to put pressure on Congress to pass a contested package of election restrictions known as the SAVE America Act.
That measure remains stalled because it lacks enough votes to pass the Senate. Voting rights groups say it would disenfranchise millions of Americans with no ready access to passports and birth certificates.
Democrats had seemed amenable to confirming Clayton, hoping to quickly replace the acting DNI, Bill Pulte, a close Trump ally and Federal Housing Finance Agency director, who lacks national security and intelligence experience. Pulte replaced Tulsi Gabbard, who left the job in June.
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the committee’s Republican chairman, said he intended to hold a vote early next week on Clayton’s nomination and send it for consideration by the full Senate.
Jay Clayton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 15, 2026.
POLITICIZING INTELLIGENCE?
Lawmakers questioned Clayton about subpoenas he issued on Friday ordering New York Times journalists to testify before a federal grand jury after reporting on security concerns involving Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.
The newspaper described the move as “an extraordinary escalation” in Trump’s efforts to intimidate journalists, a view echoed by some senators. The Justice Department said it was not aimed at journalists but at officials leaking sensitive information.
Clayton said the subpoenas were “in connection with an ongoing national security investigation,” and that they were issued as part of a “consultative process” with career prosecutors in his office.
“I’m absolutely committed to and respect our First Amendment and the role of the press,” Clayton said, adding that he did not want to discuss the case in detail.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee’s senior Democrat, called on Clayton to refrain from what Warner charged were “repeated attempts” to politicize intelligence by Gabbard and Pulte.
The director of national intelligence, overseer of the 18-agency U.S. intelligence community, acts as the president’s top intelligence adviser, and is expected to be nonpartisan and to present and defend intelligence analyses that may not support the views of the Oval Office.
Warner said one of his greatest concerns was how Pulte might misuse extremely sensitive intelligence about U.S. elections that he is expected to declassify for Trump’s address on Thursday.
“I just don’t understand how Mr. Pulte … can end up figuring out what is appropriate or not appropriate (to declassify) since he’s been in the job for only three weeks,” Warner said.
Clayton said he was not involved in preparations for Trump’s speech.
Clayton lacks extensive traditional intelligence agency experience, but said he has worked on security matters while chairing the Securities and Exchange Commission and as Manhattan U.S. Attorney, a position in which he has been handling the prosecution of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Since assuming his acting position last month, Pulte has announced repeated rounds of staff reductions, as some Republicans urge the elimination of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Clayton pushed back, saying there was a need for a “focal point for coordination across the other 17 intelligence agencies.” But he added that ODNI should “probably pull back” from involvement in operations and from functions performed by other agencies.
Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, Jonathan Landay and Luc Cohen; Editing by Don Durfee, Edmund Klamann, Philippa Fletcher, Rod Nickel
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