2026-07-30T17:27:14.942Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：克里斯汀·霍姆斯
更新于1小时前
更新时间：2026年7月30日，美国东部时间下午3:02
发布时间：2026年7月30日，美国东部时间下午1:27
2026年7月23日，代理国家情报总监比尔·普尔特在白宫玫瑰园出席唐纳德·特朗普总统为纪念2025年世界大赛冠军举办的活动前抵达现场。
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据一位知情消息人士透露，代理国家情报总监比尔·普尔特不会在其更正式的接任者杰伊·克莱顿宣誓就职后立即离开办公室。两人在该情报机构最高职位的任期预计将至少重叠两周。
该消息人士称，本周早些时候获参议院确认的克莱顿预计将于下周宣誓就任国家情报总监。普尔特预计将在就职后至少再留任两周，但同时也警告称，这一时间线可能会发生变动。
多名消息人士告诉CNN，普尔特曾直接向唐纳德·特朗普总统表明，他尚未完成这项工作，希望留任以完成自己既定的目标。这位行事好斗、颇具争议的住房行业高管此前没有任何国家安全相关经验，他大幅削减了情报界的人员编制，并参与了解密部分与特朗普2020年选举欺诈虚假指控相关的文件。
一位消息人士表示，尽管特朗普欣赏普尔特，对其包括裁员在内的表现感到满意，但总统也对克莱顿颇有好感，并且理解外界希望让克莱顿尽快上任的诉求——包括最初对特朗普提名普尔特担任代理职务一事持反对态度的参议员们。
此前熟悉普尔特任期的美国官员曾向CNN表示，他没有足够时间完成所有与解密特定材料相关的目标。这项解密工作主要由保守派评论员约翰·所罗门牵头，他于今年初夏成为政府特别雇员。
四位熟悉此次争执的消息人士透露，上周普尔特与中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫就白宫计划公布的与2020年外国干预选举相关文件的删改范围发生激烈争执。据这些消息人士透露，普尔特主张公开更多文本内容，双方当时都提高了嗓门。
但消息人士称，普尔特最终做出了让步，开始听从拉特克利夫的意见。
目前难以估算普尔特削减人员编制的具体幅度。现任和前任官员均表示，国家情报总监办公室已大幅缩水。普尔特于周二宣布了第五轮也是“接近最终”的裁员计划，并在X平台的帖子中称，此次裁员累计已让这家顶级情报机构的员工减少了“约30%”；其前任图尔西·加巴德此前曾宣布计划将约2000人的员工队伍裁减40%。CNN无法独立核实这些数据。
但即便大体上支持该机构的人士也告诫，不要对裁员幅度过度恐慌。
对一些批评者而言，除了缺乏经验之外，更令人担忧的是普尔特是否会将敏感情报用作攻击总统政治对手的武器。作为联邦住房金融局局长，他曾协助推动针对总统主要政治对手的抵押贷款欺诈调查。
本文已补充背景信息进行更新。
CNN的凯蒂·博·利利斯和扎卡里·科恩对本文亦有贡献。
Pulte expected to temporarily overlap with his replacement as intelligence chief
2026-07-30T17:27:14.942Z / CNN
By Kristen Holmes
Updated 1 hr ago
Updated Jul 30, 2026, 3:02 PM ET
PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2026, 1:27 PM ET
Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, arrives before President Donald Trump holds an event to honor the 2025 World Series champions in the Rose Garden of the White House, on July 23, 2026.
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte will not immediately leave his office after his more permanent replacement, Jay Clayton, is sworn in, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead, the two men’s tenures at the top of the office will overlap for at least two weeks.
Clayton, who was confirmed by the Senate earlier this week, is expected to be sworn in as director of national intelligence next week, according to the source. Pulte is expected to stay in the office for at least two weeks after that, the source said, cautioning that the timeline could shift.
Pulte made a case to President Donald Trump directly that he wasn’t finished with the job and wanted to stay on to complete what he had set out to do, multiple sources told CNN. The combative and controversial housing executive, who had no prior national security experience, has made sharp staffing cuts to the intelligence community and played a role in declassifying certain documents related to Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020.
While Trump likes Pulte and was happy with his performance, including the staffing cuts, one source said the president also was fond of Clayton and understood that there was a desire to get him in the role quickly — including by senators who had initially balked at Trump’s decision to tap Pulte for the acting role.
US officials familiar with Pulte’s tenure previously suggested to CNN that he did not have enough time to accomplish all his goals tied to declassifying certain material. The declassification project largely fell to the conservative commentator John Solomon, who became a special government employee earlier this summer.
Pulte and CIA Director John Ratcliffe got into a heated dispute last week over the scope of redactions in the documents the White House planned to release related to foreign interference in the 2020 election, according to four sources familiar with the exchange. Pulte argued to make more of the text public, according to those sources, and both parties raised their voices.
But ultimately, Pulte backed down and began to defer to Ratcliffe, the sources said.
It’s difficult to measure how deep Pulte’s staffing cuts went. Current and former officials alike say the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has been deeply degraded. Pulte announced on Tuesday a fifth and “near final” round of firings, claiming in a post on X that the dismissals had cumulatively axed “approximately 30%” of staff at the top spy agency; his predecessor Tulsi Gabbard had previously announced that she planned to cut the workforce, then around 2,000 people, by 40%. CNN was not able to independently confirm those figures.
But even those who support the agency broadly cautioned against hysteria about the depth of the cuts.
For some critics, the far deeper concern with Pulte beyond his inexperience was whether he would weaponize sensitive intelligence against the president’s critics. As Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he helped facilitate mortgage fraud investigations against the president’s top political opponents.
This story was updated with additional context.
CNN’s Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.
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