Eric McDaniel
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each year, in large part because they didn't trust Pulte to oversee the program, as well as other aspects of more than a dozen intelligence agencies.
The program is due to lapse tomorrow, but intelligence gathering under the tool will continue under the existing authorization.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
Jay Clayton is a lawyer and federal prosecutor.
He also served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It's unclear at this point whether Bill Pulte, named by Trump to serve as DNI in an acting capacity, will still do so.
In fact, Democrats sank the renewal of spy legislation that allows the government to collect the communications of hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals located outside of the U.S.
each year.
in large part because they didn't trust Pulte to oversee the program as well as other aspects of more than a dozen intelligence agencies.
The program is due to lapse tomorrow, but intelligence gathering under the tool will continue under the existing authorization.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enables the government to scoop up the electronic communications of some 300,000 foreign nationals each year.
The fight to extend the law is a cyclical controversy on Capitol Hill, where many lawmakers of both parties are concerned about past abuses.
The law has been used to read the communications of American citizens without a court warrant.
And it appeared the deal was close to a three-year extension with minimal reforms until President Trump named Bill Pulte, a man with no national intelligence experience, to oversee the program as acting director of national intelligence.
Intelligence collections will be allowed to continue under a grandfather clause for several more months.
The House is now leaving town for a week.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
The president has doubled down on Bill Pulte to be the acting director of national intelligence.
Pulte, head of a housing finance agency, has been a prominent partisan attack dog for the president, leveraging confidential information to go after the president's perceived enemies.
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