Hillary Clinton knocks Pulte: 'You should definitely be worried about everything'
Key takeaways
- You should definitely be worried about everything.
- Pulte has already delivered on his controversial tenure that critics were anxious about when President Trump chose him to be acting DNI.
- Democrats have gone after Pulte for using his role as Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director to assist Trump in using mortgage records to target his political opponents.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
You should definitely be worried about everything. This is a naked partisan takeover of the Director of National Intelligence, which was formed, following 9/11, to better try to coordinate the various intelligence agencies, Clinton said on a Wednesday episode of the Defending Democracy with Marc Elias podcast. These agencies include the CIA, the National Security Agency (NSA) and more. We missed a lot of signals that we should have paid attention to leading up to 9/11 and it was thought, in this legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security and the DNI, that this would be a better coordinating mechanism.
I think there s a lot of problems with it, but it is at the hub of all of our intelligence. The DNI has access to everything, everything that they want to see, she added, in comments highlighted by Mediaite. I mean, I hope there are career and even political appointees, in various of the agencies, that are slow-walking or refusing to share information with Pulte.
Pulte has already delivered on his controversial tenure that critics were anxious about when President Trump chose him to be acting DNI. He began the job last month and quickly carried out Trump s wish to lay off staffers at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).