Trump’s intelligence chief pick puts surveillance program renewal in doubt
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#762E1)
Democrats say appointment of Bill Pulte could doom bipartisan agreement to renew section 702 of Fisa
Donald Trump's appointment of a close political ally with no intelligence experience to lead the nation's spy agencies has thrown last-ditch efforts to renew a powerful surveillance program into doubt.
Bill Pulte, now head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and a major Republican donor and heir to a home construction fortune, was tapped by Trump to serve as acting director of national intelligence days after Tulsi Gabbard departed the role.
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