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华盛顿专电——总统特朗普上月突然叫停杰伊·克莱顿的提名进程后，克莱顿将于周三出席参议院情报委员会的确认听证会。
这场在国会山举行的听证会定于上午9:30开始。
上月，特朗普曾敦促参议院共和党人取消对克莱顿的提名听证会，称在参议院批准接替克莱顿担任纽约南区联邦检察官的人选之前，不应推进其提名程序。特朗普还表示，提名进程推进过快，会妨碍他有争议的代理情报总监人选比尔·普尔特暂时接任该职位。
特朗普选择住房官员普尔特担任代理局长的决定上月在参议院引发轩然大波，导致民主党人拒绝同意延长《外国情报监控法》第702条规定的无 warrant 监视程序。参议院共和党人此前曾快速推进克莱顿的确认程序，希望在该监视权限到期几天后打破相关僵局。但总统在推动取消6月中旬的听证会时，打破了这些计划。
此后不久，参议院情报委员会主席汤姆·科顿宣布听证会延期。这位阿肯色州共和党人当时表示，“很遗憾总统指示杰伊·克莱顿不要出席他的确认听证会。”
“正如总统多次所说，克莱顿先生是一位爱国者，也是一位资质极高的提名人选，”科顿当时在X平台上写道，“我期待在不久的将来推进他的确认程序。”
如今，克莱顿将在周三出席这场姗姗来迟的确认听证会，此时第702条授权的监视权限仍处于失效状态，而普尔特自6月19日起一直担任代理国家情报总监。
这一安排的背景是，前国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德于5月表示，因丈夫被诊断出癌症，她将辞职。一周后，特朗普宣布普尔特担任代理局长。在该提名遭遇强烈反对，以及参议院共和党人施压要求选出长期局长后，特朗普于6月11日宣布克莱顿为该职位的永久人选——就在无 warrant 监视权限到期的数小时前。
克莱顿在两党中都享有良好声誉，他领导的纽约南区检察官办公室是美国关注度最高、最具声望的司法辖区之一。他曾在苏利文·克伦威尔律师事务所拥有漫长的职业生涯，该律所目前代表总统就其因向成人影片演员斯托米·丹尼尔斯支付13万美元封口费而被判刑事罪名的上诉案，以及纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯提起的民事欺诈诉讼上诉案进行辩护。
在听证会上，克莱顿可能会被问及他于上周向三名《纽约时报》记者发出的传票事宜。此前这些记者报道称，卡塔尔捐赠的新“空军一号”并未配备旧版飞机所拥有的全部先进安全功能。《纽约时报》表示，这些记者被命令于周三，也就是克莱顿确认听证会当天，在曼哈顿联邦大陪审团前作证。
在特朗普首届政府任期内，克莱顿曾担任美国证券交易委员会主席。
Jay Clayton, Trump’s DNI nominee, to testify at Senate confirmation hearing
July 15, 2026 / 6:26 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Jay Clayton is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing Wednesday, after President Trump abruptly canceled plans to move forward with his nomination last month.
The hearing on Capitol Hill is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Last month, Mr. Trump pushed Senate Republicans to cancel his own nominee’s hearing, saying Clayton’s nomination should not move forward until the Senate approved a replacement for him in his current role as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Trump also suggested that the nomination process was moving too quickly and would prevent his controversial pick for acting intelligence chief, Bill Pulte, from temporarily taking the helm.
Mr. Trump’s selection of Pulte, a housing official, as acting director roiled the Senate last month, and led Democrats to refuse to agree to an extension of a warrantless surveillance program under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Senate Republicans had been moving quickly to confirm Clayton with the hope of breaking a logjam on the surveillance program a few days after it expired. But the president dashed those plans when he pushed for the mid-June hearing to be canceled.
Soon afterward, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton announced that the hearing had been postponed. The Arkansas Republican called it “regrettable that the president has directed Jay Clayton not to appear at his confirmation hearing.”
“Mr. Clayton is a patriot and a highly qualified nominee, as the president has said repeatedly,” Cotton wrote on X at the time. “I look forward to proceeding with his confirmation in the near future.”
Now, as Clayton appears Wednesday for his belated confirmation hearing, Section 702 remains lapsed, and Pulte has been the acting DNI since June 19.
The opening came after former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in May that she would resign due to her husband’s cancer diagnosis. The next week, Mr. Trump announced Pulte as acting director. And after intense pushback over the pick, and pressure from Senate Republicans to select a long-term director, Mr. Trump announced Clayton would be his permanent pick for the role on June 11 — hours before the warrantless surveillance authority was set to expire.
Clayton is well regarded by Republicans and Democrats and leads the U.S. Attorney’s Office in one of the highest-profile and most prestigious jurisdictions in the country. He had a lengthy career at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which is representing the president in his appeal of his criminal conviction for hiding a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, as well as his appeal in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
During the hearing, Clayton may face questions about subpoenas he issued to three New York Times journalists last week after they reported that the new Air Force One, which was donated by Qatar, does not have all of the advanced security features possessed by the older planes. The Times said that the journalists were ordered to testify before a Manhattan federal grand jury on Wednesday, the same day as Clayton’s confirmation hearing.
During the first Trump administration, Clayton served as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.