{"id":4968,"date":"2026-07-15T06:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:03:39","slug":"senate-to-hold-hearing-for-trumps-pick-to-head-intelligence-agencies-after-weekslong-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Senate to hold hearing for Trump\u2019s pick to head intelligence agencies after weekslong delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to head the nation\u2019s intelligence agencies, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, weeks after Trump abruptly delayed his nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4966\">Follow live updates on the Trump administration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Republicans and even some Democrats have been eager to quickly confirm Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as they have expressed concerns about Trump\u2019s interim appointee for the intelligence post, Bill Pulte. Pulte, who has been in the job since June 19, is a former housing official with no known intelligence experience and who used his previous administration perch to target perceived adversaries of the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., expressed frustration when Trump delayed Clayton\u2019s nomination in a social media post last month, allowing Pulte to take office. Cotton said then that Clayton had been instructed not to appear at a scheduled confirmation hearing, but he rescheduled the hearing three weeks later, with apparent approval from the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cMr. Clayton is a patriot and a highly qualified nominee, as the president has said repeatedly,\u201d Cotton said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Clayton has received some bipartisan praise, Democrats are expected to aggressively question him on how he would approach the issue of election interference, especially as Trump has said he will deliver a primetime address on Thursday with a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTrump made it clear that he expects whomever is Director of National Intelligence to promote his baseless election conspiracy theories,\u201d said Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democratic member of the intelligence panel, after the nomination was delayed last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Some Democrats praise Clayton, but bipartisan support is uncertain<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the panel\u2019s top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in June that he has \u201cknown and respected Jay Clayton for many years and believe he is a capable public servant.\u201d But he has stopped short of saying he would vote for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel, said he worked with Clayton when he was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and \u201cduring that time, he had the independence of mind and respect for the law that are necessary for any Director of National Intelligence,\u201d Himes said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Still, most Democrats are expected to vote against his nomination. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Tuesday that he expects to oppose Clayton, but he and other Democrats may not object if majority Republicans want to try and speed up his confirmation so that he can replace Pulte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m not going to vote for him,\u201d Blumenthal said. \u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t object to an accelerated vote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>As US attorney in Manhattan, Clayton oversees vast portfolio <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Clayton is currently the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the most prestigious of the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution offices. His cases have ranged from terrorism and espionage cases to security fraud and public corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4964\">Tehran threatens to halt all Mideast energy exports after US reimposes its blockade on Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Democrats are certain to press Clayton on his role in recent subpoenas of four New York Times journalists after they reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The Committee to Protect Journalists has called the subpoenas \u201can extraordinary escalation in President Trump\u2019s efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations and have a chilling effect on the work of journalists across the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Under Clayton, the office also facilitated the unsealing of thousands of pages of court records from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014 documents that were made public as part of the Justice Department\u2019s release of records related to the late sex offender and his longtime confidant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clayton has also overseen the prosecution of former Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and Maduro\u2019s wife, Cilia Flores, on drug trafficking charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Confirmation vote could unlock renewal of surveillance authority <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Clayton\u2019s confirmation could potentially clear the way for bipartisan legislation to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which stalled last month when Democrats had said they would not provide the necessary votes to pass the bill unless Pulte\u2019s temporary appointment was withdrawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The law, which aims to prevent terrorist attacks by monitoring the communications of targeted foreigners located outside the United States, expired in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even if Democrats relent, though, it is unclear if Trump would sign it. He said in his June social media post delaying Clayton\u2019s nomination that he would not sign the FISA renewal without his legislation to require proof of citizenship for all voters \u2014 which does not have enough votes to pass the Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clearing Clayton\u2019s nomination \u201cwould be a good first step\u201d in moving the FISA renewal, said South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, a member of the intelligence panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rounds said that Republicans hope to move Clayton\u2019s nomination quickly through the process, if Democrats don\u2019t object.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to getting him into that position as quickly as possible,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4962\">Former Obama counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to testify in Epstein probe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed to this report.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Clayton, President Trump\u2019s pick to head the nation\u2019s intelligence agencies, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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