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自比尔·普尔泰于本周五就任该机构代理主任以来，国家情报总监办公室已有超过50名职业和政治情报人员被免去职务。
据三位熟悉此次人事变动消息人士透露，共有6名职业和政治情报人员被解雇，另有45人被送回其原属机构。
其中一位消息人士称，普尔泰一直在向副手和其他主管征求裁员建议。部分国家情报总监办公室的副手曾呼吁进一步裁员，但普尔泰表示，目前51人的裁员规模已足够。
一位消息人士将此次裁员描述为经过深思熟虑且有条不紊的行动。反恐部门的员工未被裁撤。
另有两位消息人士表示，目前暂无进一步解雇计划。
此次裁员发生在前国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德去年实施数百人裁员之后，加巴德已于上周辞职。去年的裁员计划旨在将该办公室的人员编制从2000人缩减至1300人左右。
特朗普总统此前曾推动进一步裁员，并于本月早些时候在Truth Social平台上发文指示普尔泰“立即对该办公室开展必要的精简工作”。
该办公室负责监督美国各情报机构，并协助它们相互协调。它是在2001年9月11日恐怖袭击事件后设立的，当时调查人员普遍认为，袭击发生前情报机构未能共享信息是一大失误。
自那以后，加巴德和一些议员一直认为国家情报总监办公室机构臃肿，为情报界增添了更多官僚主义，反而加剧了该机构设立初衷本应解决的问题。
参议院情报委员会主席、阿肯色州共和党参议员汤姆·科顿本月早些时候表示，该办公室“已经远远超出了其最初的职权范围”。该办公室的许多工作人员来自其他情报机构，被借调到国家情报总监办公室，科顿认为其中大部分人应该被送回“原属机构”。
参议院和众议院情报委员会的最高民主党议员马克·华纳参议员以及吉姆·希姆斯众议员警告普尔蒂不要进行大规模裁员，称对于一名缺乏国家安全相关经验的代理官员而言，此举并不恰当。
“尽管可以考虑对国家情报总监办公室的人员编制进行合理精简，但任何大规模裁员都将是在2025年已经完成大幅精简的基础上进行，可能会危及这个在9/11事件后专门设立的组织的使命，该组织的设立初衷是防止未来再次发生类似恐怖袭击，”这两位民主党人在联合声明中写道。
加巴德于5月宣布将辞去该职位后，特朗普表示将任命住房金融官员普尔泰担任代理国家情报总监。随后他提名曼哈顿联邦检察官杰伊·克莱顿出任经参议院确认的正式主任。
这位于本周五上任的特朗普提名的代理国家情报总监人选，在国会引发了强烈反对。民主党人和部分共和党人对这一任命提出质疑，原因是他缺乏国家安全相关经验。
科罗拉多州民主党众议员杰森·克劳周日在接受《玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目采访时表示，他担心“美国人正处于危险之中”，因为由普尔泰担任国家情报总监“我们的机构负责人能力不足”。
除了普尔泰缺乏国家安全相关经验之外，民主党人还抨击他在调查特朗普政治对手事件中所扮演的角色。身为众议院情报委员会成员的克劳表示，“显然我担心的是，这个人是一名政治打手，他最大的资历就是对唐纳德·特朗普忠诚，并且愿意对付特朗普的敌人。”但他同时表示，更直接的担忧是美国人的安全。
“这是一个非常重要的职位。该职位位于我们各情报机构的顶端，根据法律，国会要求该人选具备丰富的情报工作经验，因为他们必须确保我们能够保护美国人的安全，而这正是比尔·普尔泰所不具备的能力，”克劳说道。
自普尔泰获任命以来，民主党人拒绝延长《外国情报监控法》第702条，该条款赋予情报机构对海外目标进行广泛监视的权力，导致该法律条款于本月早些时候失效。
参议院共和党领导人曾试图通过快速确认克莱顿为正式国家情报总监来打破僵局，但总统上周突然宣布取消克莱顿的确认听证会。
延长《外国情报监控法》第702条的谈判本已紧张，两党部分议员都呼吁设置更严格的限制条款，并认为该计划可能会在未经搜查令的情况下监听美国人的通信。情报官员表示，该计划对国家安全至关重要。
当被问及民主党人是否判断失误时，克劳表示“完全没有”。
“我知道这项计划的重要性，但我不愿意为了暂时延长该计划，而牺牲美国人的宪法权利、隐私和基本公民自由，”克劳说道。
南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆在《面对全国》节目中表示，“任何在美国面临巨大危险之际叫停《外国情报监控法》的民主党人，都犯了一个巨大的错误。”
“我们是在玩火，无论哪一方这么做都是如此，”格雷厄姆说道。“美国需要《外国情报监控法》恢复运作。”
玛格丽特·布伦南、凯亚·哈伯德和乔·沃尔什为本报道撰稿。
ODNI under Pulte fires 6 staff, sends 45 back to home agencies
2026-06-23T18:24:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: June 23, 2026 / 6:54 PM EDT / CBS News
Just over 50 career and political intelligence staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have been removed from their roles since Bill Pulte became the agency’s acting director, Friday.
Six career and political intelligence staff were terminated and 45 were sent back to their home agencies, according to three sources familiar with the personnel moves.
Pulte has been asking deputies and other directors for suggestions about cuts. Some of the ODNI deputies pushed for more cuts, but Pulte said that the 51 was enough for now, one of the sources said.
One source characterized the cuts as thoughtful and methodical. No staffers have been removed from the counterterrorism group.
No further firings are planned for now, two of the sources said.
The cuts follow hundreds of staff reductions last year by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down last week. Last year’s planned downsizing sought to bring the office’s headcount from 2,000 to around 1,300.
President Trump has pushed for further cuts, directing Pulte to “execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office” in a Truth Social post earlier this month.
The office is charged with overseeing the country’s intelligence agencies and helping them coordinate with each other. It was created in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which investigators widely believe was preceded by a failure of intelligence agencies to share information.
Since then, Gabbard and some lawmakers have argued the ODNI has become bloated and has added more bureaucracy to the intelligence community — worsening a problem it was created in part to resolve.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said earlier this month the office has “grown far beyond its original mandate.” Many of the office’s staff hail from other intelligence agencies but have been detailed to ODNI, and Cotton argued large numbers of them should be returned to their “home agencies.”
Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence panels, warned Pulte against making large-scale staff cuts, calling it an inappropriate course of action for an acting official without national security experience.
“While there is room to consider responsible reductions to ODNI’s workforce, any large cuts would follow on a substantial downsizing that has already occurred in 2025 and risk jeopardizing the mission of an organization explicitly created after 9/11 to prevent any future such terrorist attack,” the two Democrats wrote in a joint statement.
After Gabbard announced in May that she would resign from the post, Mr. Trump said he would install Pulte, a housing finance official, as acting director of national intelligence. He later nominated Jay Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, to serve as Senate-confirmed director.
Mr. Trump’s pick for acting director of national intelligence, who assumed the role on Friday, has sparked intense pushback in Congress. Democrats, and some Republicans, questioned the selection due to his lack of national security experience.
Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado said Sunday he’s worried that “Americans are at risk” with Pulte serving as DNI “because we have someone who’s incompetent at the head of this agency,” in an interview on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
In addition to Pulte’s lack of national security experience, Democrats have railed against the pick for his role in investigations into Mr. Trump’s political foes. Crow, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, said he’s “obviously concerned that this is somebody who’s a political attack dog, and his single biggest qualification is that he’s loyal to Donald Trump and is willing to go after Donald Trump’s enemies.” But he said more immediately, he’s concerned about Americans’ safety.
“This is a really important position. This sits atop our intelligence agencies, and by law, Congress mandated that this person have significant intelligence experience because they have to make sure that we’re keeping Americans safe, which is not what Bill Pulte is capable of doing,” Crow said.
Since Pulte’s selection, Democrats have declined to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which grants intelligence agencies broad authority to spy on overseas targets, causing the legal provision to expire earlier this month.
And as Senate GOP leaders tried to bring an end to the impasse by moving to quickly confirm Clayton as permanent director of national intelligence, the president abruptly called for Clayton’s confirmation hearing to be canceled last week.
Talks on extending FISA Section 702 were already strained, with some members of both parties pushing for stricter guardrails and arguing the program can scoop up Americans’ communications without a warrant. Intelligence officials say the program is essential to national security.
Asked whether Democrats have miscalculated, Crow said “not at all.”
“I know how important it is, but I’m unwilling to trade Americans’ constitutional rights, privacy and essential civil liberties for temporary extension to this program,” Crow said.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on “Face the Nation” that “any Democrat that shuts down FISA at a time of great peril for the United States is making a huge mistake.”
“We’re playing with fire here, no matter what side does it,” Graham said. “America needs FISA up and running.”
Margaret Brennan, Kaia Hubbard and Joe Walsh contributed to this report.
