Trump wants a federal prosecutor to run US Intelligence
The transition team is really leaning into the lawyer vibe for the spy business this time around.
Trump just picked Jay Clayton, a federal prosecutor from New York, to be the new Director of National Intelligence. Usually, this job goes to career intelligence officers or high-ranking military brass who have spent decades buried in classified briefings.
Instead, we are getting a guy who spent his career filing indictments and managing courtroom chaos. It turns out running the nation's entire spy apparatus is now just another case file for a prosecutor.
Intelligence is now officially a matter of litigation.
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